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For a full discussion of the question see the pamphlet by J. Freeman Rattenbury, entitled, "The Cession of the Floridas to the United States of America and the Necessity of Acquiring the Island of Cuba by Great Britain." London, 1819. Niles's "Register," March and April, 1823. H. Ex. Doc. No. 121, Thirty-second Cong., First Sess.; also Brit. and For. St. Pap., Vol. XLIV, pp. 114-236.
"And what might his references be, now?" "To his bankers, the London and Orient, in Threadneedle Street," answered Mrs. Killenhall promptly. "And to his solicitors, Crawle, Pawle and Rattenbury, of Bedford Bow." "Very satisfactory they were, no doubt, ma'am?" suggested Drillford. Mrs. Killenhall let her eye run round the appointments of the room. "Eminently so," she said dryly. "Mr.
You wouldn't charge him with making signals, I hope? 'But began Doctor Unonius and Mr Rattenbury together. The doctor was about to say that, the road being hidden from this downstairs window, it followed that the window could not be seen from the road. But the riding-officer had the louder voice and bore him down. 'But, he objected, 'the light was shown from an upstairs window, ma'am.
"I like the English," he said again, and when he thought over that talk, there seemed to be nothing else to say. How could he feel about the English as John Marsh, who had never lived in England, felt? How could he dislike them when he remembered Gilbert Farlow and Roger Carey and Ninian Graham and Mrs. Graham and Old Widger and Tom Yeo and Jim Rattenbury ... and Mary Graham.
He told me so, and they hope it'll be a boy because Jim Rattenbury that's Tom Yeo's mate in the boat ... his wife had a daughter last month, and they all think it would be awf'lly nice if Tom's son were to grow up and marry Jim's daughter, and I think it would, and of course it would, wouldn't it?" "Would it?" said Henry. "Of course it would.
Beneath them, lying high on the shingle, were the trawlers, lying ready for the morning when the fishermen would push them down into the sea. "Tom Yeo and Jim Rattenbury are going to have a motor put into their trawler," Mary said. "It'll make a lot of difference to them. They'll be able to go out even when there isn't any wind." Henry did not answer.
The doctor sipping at it and gazing over the rim of the glass at Mr Rattenbury nervous and distraught, as a good husband should be on each occasion wondered how much he knew.
'You shall know my business fast enough if you will kindly open. Without more ado she flung the door wide, and the ray of her lamp fell upon Mr Rattenbury, the young riding-officer, cloaked, high-booted, and spurred. 'A strange business it must be, sir, said the widow, 'that brings you hammering up sick folk at this time of night! 'Sick folk, eh? said the riding-master, with a brusque laugh.
You might give it to Tom for me, will you!" Jim Rattenbury waved the money away. "Ah, that be all right, Mas'er Ninyan," he exclaimed. "You can try your 'and at it nex' time you comes 'ome. I'll tell Tom. 'Er'll be glad to 'ave longer to get ready for it, 'er will!" He laughed at his own joke, and they laughed, too.
Pawle, of Crawle, Pawle and Rattenbury. Mr. Pawle, an alert-looking, sharp-eyed little man, whom Viner at once recognized as having been present in the magistrate's court when Hyde was brought up, smiled as he shook hands with the new visitor. "You don't know me, Mr. Viner," he said. "But I knew your father very well he and I did a lot of business together in our time.
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