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Parson Leggatt is not much given to preaching, meseemeth." "I will go with you, Master Pynson," said Margery, resuming the concoction of the dainty dish before her, "with a very good will, for I should like greatly to hear the Reverend Father. I never yet heard preach a scholar of Oxenforde."
Leggatt drew the line at the girls. Loud and long he drew it. 'I'm glad of that, I said. 'You may be. He adopted the puristical formation from the first.
A sufficiently fierce story to make an old judge and a respectable jury sit up a bit. The first thing I heard when I came to myself was the maddening howling of that endless gale, and on that the voice of the old man. He was hanging on to my bunk, staring into my face out of his sou'wester. "'Mr. Leggatt, you have killed a man. You can act no longer as chief mate of this ship."
The fire engines were brought, and vigorous help was soon obtained to work them. By one o'clock in the morning the fires were all extinct, but at that time all that remained of the premises of Messrs. Bourne and Mr. Leggatt were the black and crumbling walls. I have mentioned the attack upon the premises of W. Dakin and Co. My own brother was manager there, and was in the very thick of the fray.
'Not a thing, said I. 'You know what an old maid's like where her precious dog's concerned. And though I have tried vainly to lie to Ella Godfrey for many years, I believe that in this case I succeeded. When I turned into our drive that evening, Leggatt observed half aloud: 'I'm glad Zvengali's back where he belongs. It's time our Mike had a look in.
William Leggatt on Claim No. 13, Eldorado, together with William Gates and a miner named Shoots, purchased their claim from a miner named Stewart, and his partner, for the sum of $45,000.00. They did not have money to make the payment in cash but made a first payment of $2,000.00 with the agreement to pay the balance of the purchase price, $43,000.00, prior to July 1st, 1897.
But the hills are too close together to allow the valleys to be termed magnificent. Reached Doonga Gullee at 10 a.m. The length of last march, eleven miles the road, a good military one, has been cut in the face of the mountain. Put up at the Dâk Bungalow, and dined with the officers of the working party; among them Heath, of the 88th, and Leggatt and Lyons, of the 77th, whom I knew.
Then what might 'ave made you tell the sentry at the first camp we found that you was the Daily Express delivery-waggon? 'You can't touch pitch without being defiled, Leggatt answered. ''Oo told the officer in the bath we were umpires? 'Well, he asked us. That was when we found the Territorial battalion undressin' in slow time.
Leggatt, who seemed to know the premises, had run the car into the tiny backyard where her mirror-like back almost blocked up the windows. He minded shop while we ate. Pyecroft passed him his rations through a flap in the door. The uncle ordered him in, after breakfast, to wash up, and he jumped in his gaiters at the old man's commands as he has never jumped to mine.
The uncle, sunk in his chair, snored a little; the canary answered with a shrill lullaby. Pyecroft picked up the duster, threw it over the cage, put his finger to his lips, and we tiptoed out into the shop, while Leggatt brought the car round. 'I'll look out for the news in the papers, I said, as I got in. 'Oh, we short-circuited that!
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