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So hard-up, that when they died as the result of a carriage accident which occurred a week after Pauline's marriage they left nothing behind them but debts which your father liquidated. "Of your father, Caleb Tennant, the millionaire, I will not write, seeing that, after all, you are his child.
At five miles struck a gum creek in which we found water. The banks have excellent feed upon them, and in abundance, so, for the sake of the horses, I have determined to remain here to-day. This creek, which I have named Tennant Creek, after John Tennant, Esquire, of Port Lincoln, runs east.
INSPECTOR: "I'm sorry to have frightened you, madam, I will now take down your names ..." Has the cabman given you his name? He ought to be rewarded, he might have saved us all!" I felt that I could have strangled the cabman, but, collecting myself, took one candle off the writing-table and, blowing the other out, led the way to the library-door, saying slowly: "Margaret... Emma... Alice Tennant.
"No," said Kathleen. "I mean yes. Yes, I suppose so. Can I have a form? Mrs. Tennant, can I have a telegraph form?" Mrs. Tennant began to hunt about for one. Telegrams were by no means common things at the Tennants' house. David suggested that the messenger boy might have one. This turned out to be the case. Kathleen began to write, but she suddenly changed her mind.
"Have you made your peace with Miss Tennant, you scatterbrained young woman?" "It's a hereditary taint, Dad don't blame me!" retorted Molly with lazy impudence, pulling his head down and kissing him on the top of his ruffled hair. Selwyn grinned. "I pass," he submitted. "And who is it that's been crossed in love?" "The Hermit of Far End."
My compliments to Mrs. Tennant, and all the good folks in Glenconnel and Barguharrie. ELLISLAND, New-year-day Morning, 1789. This, dear Madam, is a morning of wishes, and would to God that I came under the Apostle James's description! the prayer of a righteous man availeth much.
The box seemed to fill up every crevice of her heart, as she expressed it, and it was a very happy girl who dressed to go to the Weldons' that evening. Kathleen was intensely affectionate, and would have done anything in the world to please Mrs. Tennant; but when it came to wearing a very quiet gray dress with a little lace round the collar and cuffs, she begun to demur.
"A nice hot sausage on toast, and a lovely cup of tea with cream in it." "But but," said Mrs. Tennant, "what will Alice say?" "Maria and I don't care twopence what Alice says. This is my tea, and Maria fetched it. Now then, dear tired one, eat and rest." Mrs. Tennant looked at Kathleen with loving eyes. "Did you buy these things?" she said. "That she did, ma'am," cried Maria.
Tennant. "Really this is provoking." "Oh, mother, it isn't worth while fretting about her. She is quite hopeless," said Alice. "But there! I must make the best of it to Miss Ravenscroft, only I am sure she will be very angry with Kathleen." Alice flew to the school. She was met by a teacher, who asked her where she was going. "To see Miss Ravenscroft," replied Alice.
Morehead, Alexander Negris, Alexander Sutherland, William Tennant, and William Weir. E. Hamilton, Mrs. Hemans, W. M. Hetherington, Alexander Maclagan, John Malcolm, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Charles Doyne Sillery, Thomas Stoddart, William Tennant, James Thomson, Alaric A. Watts, and Mrs. Grant of Laggan. A rare combination of talent!
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