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When we arrive you can get some of your people to send a telegram to Tompkins, to order him to pay your hotel bill and bring your effects to London, or wherever else you may think of stopping." "Thanks for your counsel. I leave myself entirely in your hands," said the duke, with a half-suppressed sigh.
Wolford retired in a dissatisfied mood. He had overreached himself. In the course of a week the sale was made, and for cash. The property brought twenty-five thousand dollars. After the mortgage was released, and his borrowed money account balanced, Mr. Tompkins had just twelve thousand dollars to his credit in bank, with a month's heavy payments before him.
Aides, with rank of Major: S.W. Melton, B.F. Withers, T.J. Davis, E.S. Hammond, S. Warren Nelson, Samuel Tompkins, W.P. Butler, M.B. Lipscomb. Colonel S. McGowan, Volunteer Aide. Dr. Reeves, of Virginia, was Brigade Surgeon. Colonels Morayne and Boylston remained only a few weeks.
Haughton had given him permission to press his suit with Miss Tompkins, Madame always considering Everly her own property. "Allow me one moment," said Delrose following Kate in her exit. "I find I must bid you and the Colonel adieu; I go to London by the midnight, from whence I think, across the water." In spite of herself the colour came and went in Kate's cheeks.
To knock out the brains of the remaining savages, tear the tresses from the stiffening hand of Muck-a-Muck, and dash rapidly forward to the cottage of Judge Tompkins, was the work of a moment. He burst open the door. Why did he stand transfixed with open mouth and distended eyeballs? Was the sight too horrible to be borne?
He came to rescue me, this poor Olivier, you conceive. Those Norman fishermen of whom you spoke to-day but you English are blinded, I think, by the fogs of your cold island. Eight of the bravest gentlemen in France, mademoiselle, were those same fishermen, come to bribe my gaoler, the incorruptible Tompkins, no less.
Trevalyon until after luncheon." "Yes, madam." "And, Mason, bid Sarah be in readiness to attend Miss Tompkins, who will drive to Bayswater in half an hour for the day. John will have the close carriage at the door." "Yes, madam." Here is the heart wish of Blanche fulfilled, but she does not show it, saying: "Why must I go to that stupid place, step-momma? Such a mean crowd."
I found Company F at Governor's Island, Captain C. Q. Tompkins in command, Lieutenant E. O. C. Ord senior first-lieutenant, myself junior first-lieutenant, Lucien Loeser and Charles Minor the second-lieutenants. Dr. James L. Ord had been employed as acting assistant surgeon to accompany the expedition, and Lieutenant H. W. Halleck, of the engineers, was also to go along.
But perhaps he could find some way to bring her to a more reasonable course. It was distinctly out of his way to cross Tompkins Square again, but in his present mood there was a satisfaction to him in taking a turn through the square, which was associated in his mind with a time when his dawning affection for Phillida was dimmed by no clouds of separation.
Six months after the relief of the city, a Chilian sailor belonging to the "Huascar," which was lying off the Battery, stopped to watch a crowd of workmen who were busily engaged in clearing away the ruins of some tenement buildings near Tompkins Square. The face of one of the workmen had evidently attracted the foreigner's attention, as he gazed at him intently and curiously.
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