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The bells, too, were ceasing five or six only tinkled on. She leaned forward over the balustrade to make sure that the children were gone. As she did so, the sound of a whimper caught her ear. She looked down, and spoke soothingly to a small dog, an Italian greyhound, a pet of Mr. Langton's, that had run to her trembling, and was nuzzling against her skirt for shelter.
I was so much hurt, and had my pride so much roused, that I kept away from him for a week; and, perhaps, might have kept away much longer, nay, gone to Scotland without seeing him again, had not we fortunately met and been reconciled. To such unhappy chances are human friendships liable . On Friday, May 8, I dined with him at Mr. Langton's.
Still averse to shedding blood, General Hall told the soldiers to elevate their pieces over the heads of the people, and fire at the blank wall of Mr. Langton's house opposite, hoping thus to frighten the mob. But this only awakened derision, and the leaders shouted, "Come on, boys! they have blank cartridges and leather flints!"
One day, when dining at old Mr. Langton's where Miss Roberts, his niece, was one of the company, Johnson, with his usual complacent attention to the fair sex, took her by the hand and said, 'My dear, I hope you are a Jacobite. Old Mr.
Mark, not being devoted to children, felt more than a little dubious himself; but he wanted to be associated with her in something, and volunteered manfully. 'Look here, he began, as they all stood about staring at him, 'Miss Langton's a little tired. I I am going to play with you a little now. What shall we have, eh? Blind man's buff?
Both agreed that the most fortunate thing that ever happened had been the burglary at Admiral Langton's; which had been the means of Jim's getting into the navy, and Bob's coming out to Gibraltar, to his sister. Jim had lots to tell of his shipmates, and his life on board the Brilliant.
BOSWELL. This note is first given in the second edition, being added, no doubt, at the Bishop's request. See post, 1780, in Mr. Langton's Collection. Chap. xlii. is still shorter: 'Concerning Owls. 'There are no owls of any kind in the whole island. Horrebow says in his Preface, p. vii: 'I have followed Mr.
It ripens with the years. It is so intimate that it seems to be a record of my own experiences. I have dined so often with Johnson at the Mitre and Sir Joshua's and Langton's and the rest that I know him far better than the shadows I meet in daily life.
Since her interview with the angler, which was interrupted by the appearance of Fanshawe, Ellen Langton's hitherto calm and peaceful mind had been in a state of insufferable doubt and dismay.
Behold me with my wand!" She seized Miss Langton's slender umbrella and, waving it over her curly little head, pirouetted again in triumphant gayety. The General was thoughtfully sipping his tea and studying her as she chattered and danced. When she paused a moment for breath he again held up his hand. "Colonel Armstrong went with Mr. Prime, did he?"
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