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"I think so; he has written you several letters Alfred Russel Wallace!" You could have knocked me down with a lady's-slipper. I opened the letter and unmistakably it was from the great scientist, "introducing my baby boy." I never met Alfred Russel Wallace, but I know if I should, I would find him very gentle, kindly and simple in all his ways as really great men ever are.
These motions, however, were observed by Lady Russel, who conjectured what were his intentions. She therefore for some time enjoyed the poor fellow's embarrassments, and made his lordship acquainted with it by looks and dumb motions. William, who had no idea that his scheme was suspected, being fearful of trying the same stratagem twice, instantly thought of another expedient.
Howe: How many times did you visit her? Dr. Kennedy: Eight or ten times. Mr. Howe: Was Hemmings in the room with her? Dr. Kennedy: He was. Mr. Howe then applied for attachments against two witnesses who had been subpoenaed to prove that Mrs. Bethune had been at the Whitney House and the Washington Hotel with Hemmings, but Judge Russel declined to grant any time, and peremptorily ordered Mr.
With a groan, we who once belonged to her saw the old `Agamemnon' take the ground on the shoal I have spoken of; the `Bellona' and `Russel' touched also, but sufficiently within range to take part in the battle. Soon after ten the `Edgar' began the action, and one by one, as the other ships slipped from their anchors, and following at intervals, took up their position, they also commenced firing.
The first were Lord Colchester, Mr. Wharton, the eldest sons of the Earl of Rivers, and Lord Wharton, Mr. Russel, Lord Russel's brother, and the Earl of Abingdon. The King came down to Salisbury, and sent his troops twenty miles farther. Of these, three regiments of horse and dragoons were drawn on by their officers, Lord Cornbury and Colonel Langston, on design to come over to the Prince.
The condemnation of these criminals was probably intended as a preparative to the trial of Lord Russel, and served to impress the public with a thorough belief of the conspiracy, as well as a horror against it. The witnesses produced against the noble prisoner were Rumsey, Shephard, and Lord Howard.
Howe: Was it not at your solicitation that he was taken to live in the same house with yourself and Mr. Bethune? Mrs. Mr. Howe: Did you ever stay at the Washington Hotel in this city with him? Judge Russel here interposed, and informed Mrs. Bethune that she need not answer that question. Mr. Howe: Did you not visit him when he was employed at A. T. Stewart's store in this city? Mrs.
When Macdonell repeated this to Russel, the great Edinburgh editor slapped his thigh, and cried, with an oath, "The Lord knew what He was about when He chose that people for His own!" It was not to be Macdonell's fate to convert the Telegraph into a second Times.
From his autobiography we gather that his father, though dimly tracing his descent from the famous Wallace of Stirling, was born at Hanworth, in Middlesex, where there appears to have been a small colony of residents bearing the same name but occupying varied social positions, from admiral to hotel-keeper the grandfather of Alfred Russel Wallace being known as a victualler.
All day long Mona's mind kept recurring to the advertisement she had cut from the paper, while she had an instinctive feeling that she might be in some way connected with Mona Forester, although how she could not comprehend. "It would be useless for me to go to Corbin & Russel to make inquiries, for I could give them no reliable information about myself," she said, while considering the matter.
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