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By now both Mrs Love and Mrs Rhymer had become deeply apprehensive, and the former appealed to Mrs Oliphant. ``I do believe they are all dead, and the smith is not come! cried Mrs Love. ``What shall we do, Mrs Oliphant? Mrs Oliphant, much younger than the others, seems to have been a woman of resource.
"He might have come honestly by his money for anything I knew to the contrary. There was nothing to show that he had not been successful, as many other diggers have been." "Successful!" cried the poor man. "Ay, he's been successful in making a precious fool of me." "Tell us how it happened," said Mr Oliphant.
The well-known name of Oliphant comes from elephant, and was probably first given to some one very large, and perhaps a little ungraceful. Bullock as a surname probably had the same sort of origin.
But it do seem a little hard that they may get drunk on their wine, but we mustn't get drunk on our beer." "Oh, but you know, Bill," said the other, "this here's the difference. When they get drunk, it's genteel drunk, and there's no sin in that; but when we poor fellows get drunk, it's wulgar drunk, and that's awful wicked." Bernard Oliphant was deeply pained; he shrank within himself.
Browning, a name surrounded by a halo of glory from the scintillations of her own genius. Charlotte Bronté, Miss Mulock, Mrs. Wood, and Mrs. Oliphant form a brilliant galaxy, but scarcely outshine others in the same department. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe has made her mark upon her age, and is not likely to be forgotten while the War of Secession is remembered.
Not even to Corporal Pim did they communicate the object of their excursion, nor say one syllable as to its result, and it could only be inferred from their manner that they were quite satisfied with what they had seen; and very shortly afterwards Major Oliphant was observed to draw up a lengthy document, which was no sooner finished than it was formally signed and sealed with the seal of the 33rd Regiment.
Another of the Prince's officers, Colquhoun Grant, drove a party of dragoons before him all the way into Edinburgh, and stuck his bloody dirk into the Castle gates as a defiance. Sadder was the fate of another Perthshire gentleman, as young and as daring as Lawrence Oliphant.
They called it an oliphant," for so in old time people pronounced elephant. "The Lord King thought great things of this beast, and had a house built for it, forty feet by twenty, at the Tower: it was made very strong, lest the great beast should break forth and slay men. But truly it seemed a peaceable beast enough. "We dwelt much more quietly at Windsor, after the departure of the Lady Alianora.
Maggie tossed the jacket on Polly's bed, touched her hand lightly with one of her own and left the room. She went quickly back to her own pretty sitting-room, locked her door, threw herself on her knees by her bureau and sobbed long and passionately. During the few days which now remained before the end of the term no one quite knew what was wrong with Miss Oliphant.
Hammond came and took the hand which she had suddenly thrown at her side. "We both owe everything to Priscilla," he said. BEFORE Maggie Oliphant left St. Benet's she brought some of the honor which had long been expected from her to the dearly loved halls: she took a first class in her tripos examination.
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