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This service being effected, Lieutenant Colonel Simcoe rejoined Arnold at Richmond; where the public stores, and a large quantity of rum and salt, the property of private individuals, were entirely destroyed. Leaving Richmond the next day, the army returned to Westover on the seventh; and, re-embarking on the morning of the tenth, proceeded down the river.
Some think she's a bit of a devil; but she can be a devil of a saint, that's all I've got to say." "Zoug-Zoug's responsible for the devil," said Fancourt to Bagshot. "Shut up, Fan," rejoined Bagshot, hurriedly, and then whispered to him quickly.
"Well," replied her son; "and you spurn the proposal." "No; she accepts it," rejoined Jonathan, triumphantly. "Come along, Mrs. Sheppard. I've a carriage within call shall convey you swiftly to town. Come! come!" "Hear me, mother," cried Jack, "and I will explain to you why the villain makes this strange and revolting proposal.
"You might as well come along o' me for a change," said he to Willoughby. "We'll git on grand together. Come on; you won't be sorry after." "Quocunque trahunt fata sequamur," rejoined Willoughby, bowing gaily to me.
You're beastly hard on a fellow; but if you don't mind speaking the truth I don't see why you shouldn't allow me to do the same." She had paused a moment with raised brows, drawing away instinctively from his touch, though she made no effort to evade his words. "I was under the impression," she rejoined, "that you had done so without waiting for my permission."
The proposed terms were accepted, and the money promptly paid by the slave from his own earnings. But when Mr. Sergeant proposed that the suits for assault and battery should be withdrawn, Friend Hopper replied, "I have no authority to dismiss them." "They will be dismissed if you advise it," rejoined the lawyer; "and if you will promise to do it, I shall be perfectly satisfied."
"Whatever are you doing?" and she sprang up in some alarm. "What's the matter? Did I upset my tea?" asked the inventor innocently. "No; but you are soiling a clean tablecloth. Pencil-marks are so hard to get out. Take a piece of paper, please." "Oh, is that all?" rejoined Mr. Swift with a smile.
But Doe, though his whole nature moved him to be a picturesque High Churchman, yet, because he wanted Monty to think well of him, drew up abruptly at the prospect of a detailed confession. "You'll never get me to come to confession," he laughed, "never never never." "My dear Gazelle, don't be silly," rejoined Monty. "I'll have you within the week." "You won't!" "I will!
Philip leant gloomily against the wall; Krantz, more mercurial, walked up and down three steps each way and turn. "Do you know what I am thinking of?" observed Krantz, after a pause in his walk. "And I was thinking," rejoined Philip, "that I would sooner be here than in company with that wretch Schriften, whose sight is poison to me."
Your worthy father, and almost as worthy uncle, have none of the best opinion of him." "I am sorry to hear it, Mr. Muir; I doubt not that time will remove all their distrust." "If time would only remove mine, pretty Mabel," rejoined the Quartermaster in a wheedling tone, "I should feel no envy of the commander-in-chief.
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