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I spent my time much in soliciting and petitioning my Lord Treasurer Southampton, for the present dispatch of my accounts, which did pass the Secretary, then Lord Arlington, and within two months I got a privy seal for my money, without either fee or present, which I could never fasten on my Lord. Now I thought myself happy, and feared nothing less than further trouble.
Charlestonians also organized an association for the prevention of negro disturbances; but by 1825 the public seems to have begun to lose its ardor in the premises. The next salient occurrence in the series was the outbreak which brought fame to Nat Turner and the devoted Virginia county of Southampton.
I have some of the same Cider Berry Juice, and as everything is ready you will, without any further ceremony, walk up and take a little for the stomach's sake." "Thank you," said Col. G. "Since travelling over the county of Southampton I have had frequent occasions to try the juice. It is prepared and kept by most of the farmers, and the use of it acts like a charm."
It was encouraging to find no suspicious watcher at booking office or barrier. He passed through unobserved and entered an empty first-class compartment in the 7.30 to Southampton. There were ten minutes to wait before they were due to start minutes which dragged interminably. But at last the green flag dropped, the couplings tightened and the train began to move.
In the first place, the itinerary had to be projected, discussed, and settled. Was Godfrey to go south, or east, or west? That had to be decided in the first place. If he went southwards, the Panama, California and British Columbia Company, or the Southampton and Rio Janeiro Company would have to take him to Europe.
Stephen heard another tale of his half-brother. His wife had soon been disgusted by the loneliness of the verdurer's lodge, and was always finding excuses for going to Southampton, where she and her daughter had both caught the plague, imported in some Eastern merchandise, and had died.
It was nineteen years before he returned to Paris years of banishment, but years of glory. Exiled by Fate that he might do his work! Each day a steamer starts from Southampton for Guernsey, Alderney and Jersey. These are names known to countless farmers' boys the wide world over.
"And now," he said, as if he were asking everybody's pardon for an entirely unintentional intrusion, "I really must be getting back to Southampton and you and Rose I imagine have still quite a bit to talk over " "But " said Oliver clumsily, "but Mr. Piper " and "Must you really, dear?" said Mrs. Severance in the softest tones of conventional wifely reproach.
I was kidnapped at the age of forty-five or thereabout for I will not be certain of the year and forced to sea for that my Lord of Southampton had provoked the jealousie and envy of divers other great nobles.
Of course, we were kids then!..." Why did she insist on the fact that they were "kids" then? "I remember it," Ninian interjected. "Old Quinny was frightfully sloppy over it. Oh, I say, I met Tom Arthurs to-day. He's going to Southampton to-morrow. The Gigantic's starting on her maiden trip, and he's going over with her. I wish to goodness I could go too!" "Why don't you?" Mrs. Graham said.
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