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Miss Burney was greatly surprised at hearing the sounds of singing and pianoforte-playing while she was beneath its roof. It was only the Miss Lawrences practising but the inn-keepers' daughters of the last century were not generally possessed of such accomplishments.
But the heart of the people swelled high with a worthy pride as we dwelt on his name and those of the Lawrences, the Neills, the Outrams, the Campbells, and felt that all our heroes had not died with Wellington. Other anxieties and misfortunes had not been lacking while the fate of British India still hung in the balance.
A gentleman picked it up and read aloud 'Tom, mind you don't touch Satan. It was some time before the astonished boy could be induced to proceed; yet he is said to have eventually dealt with the subject very creditably and discreetly. They were strange people these Lawrences, and the Black Bear must have been a curious kind of inn.
The same mixed strain which gave England Wolfe and Wellington, the Napiers and the Lawrences, has given America some of her greatest captains; and not the least famous of her Presidents is that General Jackson who won the battle of New Orleans in 1814.
They were not in the least like the Correggios and the Guidos, the Lawrences and the Opies, that the men of that time had formed their taste upon, and accepted as their sole artistic standards. To people brought up upon pure David and Thorvaldsen, the Primavera at the Belle Arti must naturally have seemed like a wild freak of madness.
Nevertheless the boy had acquainted himself with the tone and manner appropriate to the piece, and announced that he was prepared to deliver it in imitation of the elder orator. A family in Devizes, known to the Lawrences, giving a party one evening, requested that the boy might be permitted to attend and entertain the company with his readings and recitations.
What use would your Dalhousies and Lawrences be to England without her and the hundreds of thousands like her?" "And yet it is you," cried George, unable to forbear the chance she gave him, "who would take away from this very woman the power of feeding her children and saving her husband who would spoil all the lives in the clumsy attempt to mend one of them. How can you quote me such an instance!
Josie shivered, and worked on, with the vision of schooldays all fled, with a face wan and tired, worked until, on a summer's day, some one married another; then Josie crept to her mother like a hurt child, and slept and sleeps. I paused to scent the breeze as I entered the valley. The Lawrences have gone; father and son forever, and the other son lazily digs in the earth to live.
There was something inexpressibly repugnant in the thought. He infinitely preferred to believe that Naomi hated her husband was miserable with him he preferred that to the idea that they were accomplices in the murder of a prominent young man. Then, too, there were the strange visits of William Barker, former valet to Warren, to the home of the Lawrences.
Barry sent to the dungeon for bringing rum for Mr Phillips without leave of the Sergt. Everything looks stormy. Warm weather. Growing better. Mr. Pintard came to supply prisoners of war with clothes. Two prisoners from Long Island and four Lawrences from Tappan. John Coven Cromwell from White Plains. Sergt.