United States or Comoros ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"She is a young woman of twenty, and she has a brother, Richard, who is between seventeen and eighteen." "Without a doubt those are Brake's children!" exclaimed the old man. "The infant I spoke of was a boy. Bless me! how extraordinary. How long have they been at Wrychester?" "Ransford has been in practice there some years a few years," replied Bryce.
The part of Richard III. has become highly celebrated in England from its having been filled by excellent performers, and this has naturally had an influence on the admiration of the piece itself, for many readers of Shakspeare stand in want of good interpreters of the poet to understand him properly.
Pakenham's reputed mistress, his assured secret agent and spy, the beautiful Baroness von Ritz!" He mentioned a name then well known in diplomatic and social life, when intrigue in Washington, if not open, was none too well hidden. "Gay Sir Richard!" he resumed. "You know, his ancestor was a brother-in-law of the Duke of Wellington.
See how the old feelin' has come over me at sight of this bragging, blow-hard challenge. It makes my blood bile. "Race horse? Why, Richard Travis wouldn't know a real race horse if he had one by the tail.
"Sir Charles," said Richard Bassett, faltering for a moment, "I am very much obliged to you, and I begin to be sorry we are enemies. Good-morning." The agitation and terror of this scene nearly killed Lady Bassett on the spot. She lay all that day in a state of utter prostration. Meantime Sir Charles put this and that together, but said nothing.
Richard stood up, as eager and excited as Captain Kidd always was when anybody said "Rats!" But the next instant the light died out of his eyes and he plumped himself gloomily down on the step, as if life were no longer worth living. "Oh, bother!" he exclaimed. "I forgot. I can't go anywhere.
"He has been in the Baltic fleet, a pretty little summer trip, from which we expect him to return any day. My old Lion! I am glad you had him for a little while, Flora. "Dear fellow! his only fault was being homesick, and making me catch the infection." "I am glad you did not put off your coming," said Dr. May gravely. "You are in time for the consecration," said Richard. "Ah! Cocksmoor!
"For," observed Senator Hanway, after paying a tribute to Richard and the Daily Tory, in which he extolled the honesty and intelligent conservatism of both the paper and its correspondent, "for it is only justice that the charges be sifted. The Daily Tory does not make them on its own behalf; it finds them in the mouths of others. They should be taken up and weighed.
"I am not willing that you should.... I know that you are in danger every day! I hear it in the wind, I see it in every waving bough.... Oh, come back to me, Richard!" "I?" he answered, "I feel immortal. I will come back." They rose from the rock. "The sun is setting. Would you rather I went on to the house? I must turn at once, but I could speak to them " "No.
"A boy came up to the cottage and called me out, and said a strange gentleman wanted to see me in the wood, and had given him sixpence to come for me. I went, and found Captain Thorn. He asked me what the commotion was about, and I told him Richard Hare had killed my father. He said, that now I spoke of him, he could recognize Richard Hare's as having been the other voice in the dispute."
Word Of The Day