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The origin of "Long Leat" the long shallow stream of pond and lakelets artificially widened and dammed was, like that of so many other great houses, a monastic one. An Augustinian Priory stood here before the Dissolution, but when the Great Dispersal took place it had already decayed and no great tragedy occurred.
This "leat" was left incomplete, the terminus being three miles from St. Paul's; the Governor-General Jose de Oliveira Barbosa, attempted to restore it, but was prevented by considerations of cost. Calumbo must be a gruesome place to all except its natives. Whilst Loanda has improved in climate since Captain Owen's day , this has become deadly as Rome in 1873.
Ah! couldn't we inquire of Mrs. Leat, who keeps the post-office at Carriford, if she remembers where the letters to Mrs. Manston were directed? 'He never posted his letters to her in the parish it was remarked at the time. I was thinking if something relating to her address might not be found in the report of the inquest in the Casterbridge Chronicle of the date.
Thence, through the light haze of a glorious morning, he espied a long low schooner, lateen-rigged, lying close under Point Leat, a small island about nine miles distant on the weather bow; and nearly in the Agra's course then approaching the Straits of Gaspar, 4 Latitude S. "She is hove to," said Dodd, very gravely.
"Go away, Milly. I don't want to hear anything about Mr. Pendean." "That big red devil of a man "Nor anything about the big red devil, either. If it's soft, I shall try the leat this morning." Milly stared at him with much disappointment. "God's goodness!" she said. "You can go off fishing a professed murder catcher like you and a man killed under your nose you may say!" "It isn't my job.
'The little stunpoll of a fellow couldn't call to mind more than that 'tis Miss Somebody, of London. However, that's the woman who ha' been here, depend upon't a wicked one some poor street-wench escaped from Sodom, I warrant ye. 'Only to find herself in Gomorrah, seemingly. 'That may be. 'No, no, Mrs. Leat, this is clear to me.
Hastily completing her arrangements in the other rooms, she entered the village again, and called at once on the postmistress, Elizabeth Leat, an intimate friend of hers, and a female who sported several unique diseases and afflictions. Mrs.
For the moment Tristram imagined that he must be in the midst of a sea-fight at the very leat. But his apprehensions were presently distracted by the motions of the ship under him motions which at length became erratic and even alarming. For the Good Intent was not only heaving up and down, but seemed to be tearing forward in a series of vehement rushes, with intervals of languid indecision.
If she wasn't of a bad stock at the outset she was bad in the planten, and if she wasn't bad in the planten, she was bad in the growen, and if not in the growen, she's made bad by what she's gone through since. 'But I have another reason for knowing it idn' hers, said Mrs. Leat. 'Ah! I know whose it is then Miss Aldclyffe's, upon my song!
'Both on the same errand, he said gracefully. 'I will call her, said Cytherea, moving in haste to the foot of the stairs. 'One moment. He glided to her side. 'Don't call her for a moment, he repeated. But she had said, 'Mrs. Leat! He seized Cytherea's hand, kissed it tenderly, and carefully replaced it by her side.
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