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"I'm afraid," she said suddenly, "I was dreadfully unkind to him when he came home the last time. I didn't understand. Did he tell you?" Phineas stretched out a hand and with the tips of his fingers touched her sleeve. "Mrs. Manningtree," he said softly, "don't you know that Doggie's a very wonderful gentleman?" Again her eyes grew moist. "Yes. I know.
'Well, young man, he said, 'we haven't seen you lately, and something about 'Bateson & Co. he's frightfully anti-Mendelian having it all their own way. So I introduced him to my father-in-law like a shot. I think that WAS decision. Yes, it was Manningtree really secured your father. He " "Here they are!" said Ann Veronica as the bell sounded. Part 2
But it is better to be robbed by one than by an army; and if Manningtree keeps others from cheating he is worth his wages." "And you, dear Hyacinth. Do you keep no accounts?" "Keep accounts!
King James's famous Dæmonologie he was familiar with, but he may have studied it after his first experiences at Manningtree. It seems somewhat probable, too, that he had read, and indeed been much influenced by, the account of the Lancashire witches of 1612, as well as by Richard Bernard's Advice to Grand Jurymen. But, if he read the latter book, he seems altogether to have misinterpreted it.
She had the desolating sense that nothing in the world would ever matter to her again nothing as far as she, Peggy Manningtree, was concerned. Her life was over. Altruism alone gave sanction to continued existence. Hence her present adventure. Paris might have been Burslem for all the interest it afforded.
Some one who signs himself "H. F." copied out and printed the evidence taken by the justices of the peace and inserted in the margins the verdicts. In this way we know that at least sixteen were condemned, probably two more, and possibly eleven or twelve more. Of the original sixteen, one was reprieved, one died before execution, four were hanged at Manningtree and ten at Chelmsford.
Although of no mean or revengeful nature, he was human enough to feel a little malicious satisfaction when it was proved to Durdlebury that Oliver had gone to the devil. His Aunt Sarah, Mrs. Manningtree, had died midway in the Phineas McPhail period; Mr. Manningtree a year or so later had accepted a living in the North of England, and died when Doggie was about four-and-twenty.
"I think it would be better to wait for a few days. Any shock like that sends up their temperatures. We hate temperatures, and we're getting his down so nicely." "All right," said Peggy, and she went back smiling to Phineas. "She says you're getting on amazingly, Mr. McPhail." Said Phineas: "I'm grateful to you, Mrs. Manningtree, for concerning yourself about my entirely unimportant carcass.
He was "a lawyer of but little note" at Ipswich, thence removing to Manningtree. Whether he may have been the Matthew Hopkins of Southwark who complained in 1644 of inability to pay the taxes is more than doubtful, but there is reason enough to believe that he found the law no very remunerative profession.
They pushed on to High Wycombe before night-fall, and supped tete-a-tete in the best room of the inn, with Fareham's faithful Manningtree to bring in the chief dish, and the people of the house to wait upon them.
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