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Palmer retired, seeing clearly that she wished to avoid any explanation of the real cause of her fainting. In the gallery, leading from her room, he met Captain Walsingham, who was coming to inquire for Lady Hunter. "Poor woman! do you know the cause of her fainting?" said Captain Walsingham. "No; and I believe she does not wish me to know it: therefore don't tell it me," said Mr. Palmer.
"The noblest Roman of them all," grand old "Pap" Thomas, was in command, with Howard, Stanley, Newton, Wood, Palmer, Davis, Joe Hooker, Williams and Geary as his principal lieutenants. And thither came 15,000 strong all of the Army of the Ohio who could be spared from garrisoning dearly-won Kentucky and East Tennessee.
The Palmer looked on a little while, as if surprised at Damian's determination, then exclaimed, "I can keep the old man's secret no longer such high-souled generosity must not be sacrificed. Hark thee, brave Sir Damian, I have a mighty secret still to impart, and as this Saxon churl understands no French, this is no unfit opportunity to communicate it.
Then again, it's worth the trip from Moore's Flat just to stand on the seashore an hour." "Yes," said Keeler with enthusiasm, "there's a noble sight." "But," continued Palmer, "I'm too old a man for pleasure trips. And for that matter, I'm about through with business, too. I went to San Francisco for a special reason." Keeler looked up from his coffee inquiringly.
Larkins did not know; it appears likewise, that there was a Persian moonshee in a secret of which Cantoo Baboo was ignorant; and it appears that Mr. Palmer was in the secret of a transaction not intrusted to any of the rest.
One of these was my Lord Chesterfield, whom the child grew to resemble in face and person; the second was Roger Palmer, who left her his estate; the third was King Charles, who had her baptized Anne Palmer Fitzroy, adopted her as his daughter, and eventually married her to the Earl of Sussex.
"I hope your hero is not too proud to fall in love?" "Too proud! We are told, you know, that the greatest hero, in the intervals of war, resigned 'To tender passions all his mighty mind." "Tender passions! Captain Walsingham is in love, then, hey?" said Mr. Palmer. "And may I ask Bless me! I shall be very sorry if it is with any body but may I ask to whom he is attached?"
American taste was offended, outraged, by the odious "peg" which the Old-World soldier or beggar was proud to show. We owe the well-shaped, intelligent, docile limb, the half-reasoning willow of Mr. Palmer, to the same sense of beauty and fitness which moulded the soft outlines of the Indian Girl and the White Captive in the studio of his namesake at Albany.
She could not place it, but she was so sure that these people were in some way connected with the Palmer robbery, she was determined to make an effort to establish the fact, and immediately leaving the hotel again, she sought the nearest telegraph office, and sent the following message to Ray: "Send immediately piece of the ladies' cloth torn from dress."
She wore that rich plum-coloured silk, you know, with handsome lace, and a row of most beautiful lockets. I thought to myself, as she stood up to read in that sumptuous drawing-room, that the effect was regal. `Regal, I said afterwards, is the only word to express Mrs Palmer's appearance this afternoon." "What part did Mrs Palmer read?" asked Delia, as Miss Gibbins looked round for sympathy.
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