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Major Loftus with a detachment of troops came up the Mississippi to take possession according to treaty. Pontiac turned him back. Captain Pittman came up the river. Pontiac turned him back. Captain Morris started from Detroit, and Pontiac squatted defiantly in his way. Lieutenant Frazer descended the Ohio. Pontiac caught him and shipped him to New Orleans by canoe.
"Very well, Loftus. We'll pay you out presently," said Kate. "And there is a very pretty girl," continued Mabel, "At least Catherine considers her very pretty only " her eyes danced with mischief. "Only what?" "The mother doesn't like her. There's a dear old Rector here, and he introduced the girl to Kitty, and mother was wild.
But I found it impossible to have any conversation with her in the presence of Mr. and Mrs. Gresley. Whenever I spoke to her Mr. Gresley answered, and sometimes Mrs. Gresley also. In fact, Mr. Gresley considered the call as paid to himself. Mrs. Loftus tells me he is much cleverer than his sister, but I did not gain that impression.
"Yes, my dear, but not quite so changeable as not to know anything at all about a recall in the afternoon yesterday, and to have to leave us before we are out of bed in the morning. Did anybody see Loftus go? Had he any breakfast?" Catherine flew away to inquire of Clara, and Mabel said in an injured voice: "I dare say Loftie had a telegram sent to him to the club.
"Oh, nothing, Loftie. I may laugh, I suppose, without saying why. I wish you would not put on that killing air, though. And you know perfectly there is no use in laying down the law in mother's house." The three young people were now standing in the hall, and Clara tripped timidly forward. "We want dinner as quickly as possible, Clara," said Mabel. "Come, Loftus, let us take you to your room."
LOFTUS, Travels, &c., p. 133. See above, p. 246, figs. 100 and 102. Numerous pieces of glazed tile were found in these ruins.
Layard's first folio work, from plate 68 to 83; those in his second folio work from plate 7 to 44, and from plate 50 to 56; the originals of many of these in the British Museum; several monuments procured for the British Museum by Mr. Loftus; and a series of unpublished drawings by Mr. Boutcher in the same great national collection.
Loftus Hall was an old rambling mansion, with no pretence to beauty: passages that led nowhere, large dreary rooms, small closets, various unnecessary nooks and corners, panelled or wainscotted walls, and a tapestry chamber. Here resided at the time my story commences Charles Tottenham, his second wife and his daughter Anne: Elizabeth, his second daughter, having been married.
LOFTUS, Travels, &c. p. 247. "After two months' excavation Colonel Rawlinson was summoned to the work by the information that ... a wall had been found and laid bare to a distance of 190 feet, and that it turned off at right angles at each end, to be apparently carried all round the mound, forming a square of about twenty-seven feet in height, surmounted by a platform.
The inhabitants of Terra nicknamed them "Angels," yet they were awesome the youngest were 4,000,000 years old and the oldest had been around since the birth of the universe. Space cadet Jack Loftus was almost overwhelmed when he had to assume the responsibility of negotiating a treaty with them a treaty which could mean the life or death of earth and mankind. Available at your local newsdealer.
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