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A man stood by, receiving the swords of the captain and several other persons, who seemed to be gentlemen. Harry and David observed one whose face had been turned away from them at first. "Harry," exclaimed David, "I'm sure that's Captain Rymer. If Mary is on board, how dreadful for her!" "It's very like him," said Harry; "I'm afraid it must be him. But how could he have come on board the ship?
She sent a squadron of seven ships, under the command of Lord Thomas Howard, for this service; but the king of Spain, informed of her purpose, fitted out a great force of fifty-five sail, and despatched them to escort the Indian fleet. * Camden, p. 562. Rymer, vol. xvi. p. 151, 168, 171, 173 * See note GG, at the end of the volume.
One in his exalted state could conceive nothing unmeet in having haled a strange, sensitive girl into the ghastly business for an assistant. "I'll conduct Miss Graham to my office, where she can remain until she's wholly herself," Bryant said. "This air is too sharp. You have everything, Rymer cap, coat, gauntlets? Bring them along." "But I'm feeling better now," Louise protested.
Night had now come on; the wind, as is generally the case during a hurricane, shifted so much that it was difficult to ascertain in what direction she was driving. Captain Rymer several times went on deck, but had a not very satisfactory report to give on his return. "As long as the ship does not spring a leak we have nothing to fear, however," he observed.
They adjusted the limits of all their territories, mutually secured the interests of their vassals; and, to render the union more durable, John gave his niece, Blanche of Castile, in marriage to Prince Lewis, Philip's eldest son, and with her the baronies of Issoudun and Gracai, and other fiefs in Berri. Rymer, vol. i. p. 117, 118, 119. Hoveden, p. 814. Chron.
Rymer; let us now attend to the opinion of a greater name. Mr.
Their servant, she said, a good girl but not very robust, naturally could not do all the work of the house, and, by way of helping, Mrs. Rymer was accustomed to 'see to' her own bedroom. 'It's really no hardship, she said, in her graceful, sweet-tempered way, 'when once you're used to it; in fact, I think the exercise is good for my health.
It was now a month after Christmas, and Miss Shepperson, for the first time in her life, found her accounts in serious disorder. This morning she had a letter from Mrs. Rymer, the latest of a dozen or so, all in the same strain 'I really feel quite ashamed to take up the pen, wrote the graceful lady, in her delicate hand. 'What must you think of us!
* Haynes, vol i. p. 256, 259. Haynes. vol. i. p. 223. * Rymer, tom. xv. p. 593. Keith, p. 137. Spotswood, p. 147. Knox, p. 229. Thus Europe saw, in the first transaction of this reign, the genius and capacity of the queen and her ministers. She discerned at a distance the danger which threatened her; and instantly took vigorous measures to prevent it.
I do assure you she would gather and arrange them with her own hands. In themselves I know they are hardly worth accepting; but if you will allow the motive to plead " I made another effort to stop Mrs. Rymer; I said her daughter could not have sent me a prettier present. The inexhaustible woman only went on more fluently than ever.
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