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His voice was lost in an outburst of hooting from his former friends, who sympathetically surrounded the wounded Ramsey. But in a measure, at least, the chivalrous fugitive had won his point. He was routed and outdone, yet what survived the day was a rumour, which became a sort of tenuous legend among those interested.
"Don't s'pose you heard of the little fracas we had t'other day," she began, in phrase which she intended to be delicately indirect. Edith was sitting in the cart, and Mrs. Richards stood at the wheel, with her apron shading her head. "Why, no. What was it?" "Mr. Ramsey come mighty near gettin' killed." The old woman enjoyed deeply the dramatic pallor and distortion of the girl's face.
"I have never wheeled her further than the corner," said Miss Newman, "for fear of the jolting when we had to go over the curb, but some day when she is feeling her best " "You will let me know " put in Mrs. Ramsey eagerly. "Of course you will go, too, Miss Newman, and as soon as you think she has gone far enough we can come back.
Jane Ramsey, who had been at Seddon Hall for three years in the lower school and had at last reached the dignity of Freshman, was giving an admiring group of new girls some advice. There were five of them, Catherine and Helen Clay, two sisters Catherine a Freshman and Helen a Sophomore, Winifred Hayes, another Sophomore, and Phylis Guile.
The occasion which drew this vast congregation was the setting apart of three young men, with their wives, to the solemn work of missions. William Ramsey, William Hervey, and Hollis Read were about to depart to "the land and shadow of death;" and the Christian community had come together to hear their voices, to see their countenances, for the last time.
Matters in Ireland are full of discontent. Thence with Mr. Creed to Captain Ferrers, where many fine ladies; the house well and prettily furnished. G. Montagu, Collonel Williams, Cromwell that was, He was seated at Bodsey House, in the parish of Ramsey, which had been his father's residence, and held the commission of a colonel.
They became very confidential as they snuggled down under the covers, and when Mrs. Ramsey came in to kiss them both good-night, Edna felt much happier than had seemed possible she could be when she first considered that she must spend the day and night away from her mother. The club meeting at Helen Darby's the next day was a fine affair, too, for Mr.
She isn't goin' home again next summer, she's goin' back to that settlement work in Chicago and work there among those people against our goin' to war; and here in college she wants to get everybody she can to talk against it, and " "What did you say?" Fred asked, and himself supplied the reply: "Nothin'. I started to, but " Ramsey got up. "Now look here!
Courtland had heard of the offer made to his son by Ramsey Thomas, and that he was not unfavorable to its acceptance. "Of course, you don't really need to do anything of the sort, you know, Paul," he said, affably. "You've got what your mother left you now, and on your twenty-fifth birthday there will be two hundred and fifty thousand coming to you from your Grandfather Courtland's estate.
Four days later de Ramsey surrendered the fortress of Quebec, and with the fall of this last stronghold the conquest of New France was virtually accomplished. The French, under the Chevalier de Levi, did indeed commence operations in the ensuing spring, and they even attempted to retake Quebec, mustering about ten thousand men on the scene of the previous year's engagement.
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