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In those dresses, gentlemen, you will not be able to do your duty: oblige me by shifting and putting on these." Corbett handed a flannel shirt, a rough jacket and trousers, to Messrs. Hautaine, Ossulton, Vaughan, and Seagrove. After some useless resistance they were stripped, and having put on the smugglers' attire, they were handed on board of the Happy-go-lucky.
"We were just about to retire, my lord," observed the elder Miss Ossulton, with great asperity: "I have been trying to catch the eye of Mrs Lascelles for some time, but " "I was looking another way, I presume," interrupted Mrs Lascelles, smiling. "I am afraid that I am the unfortunate culprit," said Mr Seagrove. "I was telling a little anecdote to Mrs Lascelles "
Mr Vaughan," cried Cecilia Ossulton; "you know it came from your heart." "My dear Cecilia," said the elder Miss Ossulton, "you forget yourself what can you possibly know about gentlemen's hearts?" "The Bible says that they are `deceitful and desperately wicked, aunt." "And cannot we also quote the Bible against your sex, Miss Ossulton?" replied Seagrove.
"`Yes, and you'll get over it cleverly, I've no doubt. Five thousand acres, William, and a pretty wife! "`Have you any further commands, uncle? said William, depositing the cheque in his pocket-book. "`None, my dear boy: are you going? "`Yes, sir; I dine at the Clarendon. "`Well, then, good-bye. Make my compliments and excuses to your friend Seagrove. You will come on Tuesday or Wednesday.
The air has given everybody an appetite; and it was not until the cloth was removed that the conversation became general. 'Mr. Seagrove, said his lordship, 'you very nearly lost your passage; I expected you last Thursday. 'I am sorry, my lord, that business prevented my sooner attending to your lordship's kind summons.
In those dresses, gentlemen, you will not be able to do your duty; oblige me by shifting and putting on these. Corbett handed a flannel shirt, a rough jacket and trousers to Messrs. Hautaine, Ossulton, Vaughan, and Seagrove. After some useless resistance they were stripped, and having put on the smugglers' attire, they were handed on board of the Happy-go-lucky.
He talks of the pleasure of a rough sea, which will drive all the ladies below and then they will not perceive that he is more sick than themselves. He has the misfortune to be born to a large estate, and to be a fool. His name is Ossulton. The last of the gentlemen on board whom I have to introduce is Mr. Seagrove. He is slightly made, with marked features full of intelligence.
'We were just about to retire, my lord, observed the elder Miss Ossulton, with great asperity; 'I have been trying to catch the eye of Mrs. Lascelles for some time, but 'I was looking another way, I presume, interrupted Mrs. Lascelles, smiling. 'I am afraid that I am the unfortunate culprit, said Mr. Seagrove. 'I was telling a little anecdote to Mrs. Lascelles
On September 22d Seagrove wrote stating that the Creeks were peaceable, that all their chief men ardently wished for the cessation of hostilities, and that they had refused the request of the Cherokees to go to war with the United States; and his deputy agent, Barnard, reiterated the assertions and stated that the Upper Creeks had remained quiet, although six of their people had been killed at the mouth of the Tennessee.
Even Seagrove, however, was at times hopelessly puzzled by the attitude of the Indians. Disorder among the Frontiersmen. McGillivray Bewildered.
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