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Then put the horse before the cart, my son, and you shall have the two in harmony, and God speed ye! Rendon station, did you say, Vernon? You shall have my prescription at the Railway Arms, if you're hurried. You have the look. What is it? Can I help?" "No. And don't ask." "You're like the Irish Grenadier who had a bullet in a humiliating situation.
As usual in the Lent term, hockey was the one absorbing subject outside "shop," and Hannah Vernon, now advanced to the lofty position of captain, had special reasons for welcoming her friend's reviving spirits. One chilly day in February she entered Darsie's study with a somewhat unusual request. "The girls are getting restive, and think that it's quite time we had another fancy match.
Vernon or Poseyville 'll make a sky-soaring, spread-eagle speech, and " "O, do come off, Si," said Shorty irritably. "You're only making yourself hungrier exercising your tongue so. Come here and git your share o' the breakfast and mind you eat fair."
Suddenly they heard voices two or three voices talking excitedly and all together and then a shrill sweet cry in a voice they both knew so well. 'He is alive! cried Fanny Palliser, starting up and rushing towards the house. She had scarcely gone half-a-dozen steps when Rogers came out, crimson, puffing with excitement, leading Vernon by the arm.
Seymour was the most central, and lay directly on the road to Cincinnati and Indianapolis from Louisville; and at Seymour a brigade was assembled from the center of the State, with General John Love, a skilful old army officer, to command it, with instructions to have an eye to Vernon likewise.
The irons were locked upon his wrists, and the seaman was directed to conduct him to the place assigned to all the prisoners. "This is mean of you, Christy, to put me in irons," said Corny reproachfully as he turned to his cousin; "I might have asked Captain Battleton to put you in irons on board of the Vernon; but I did not." "If he had done so, I should not have complained.
Elkanah Watson, we find the following interesting notice of Washington at home, and we also learn what subject chiefly occupied his thoughts at the time of which we are writing: "I had feasted my imagination for several days," says Mr. Watson, "on the near prospect of a visit to Mount Vernon the seat of Washington. No pilgrim ever approached Mecca with deeper enthusiasm.
Flint," said the commander, as soon as the executive officer appeared on the deck; and the call of the boatswain's mate sounded through the vessel. "I came on board to pay my respects to you, Captain Passford," said Captain Battleton of the Vernon, who had been waiting for him. "Things have changed since I last saw you.
"Why, sir," I exclaimed at this, "that's what my father always tells me. It's his favourite expression when any difficulty arises. He never gives in, sir!" "Indeed!" said the fat gentleman, while the others on either side of him looked interested. "Who is your father, my boy, if you'll excuse my asking you the question?" "Francis Vernon," I answered promptly.
All he asked and all he anticipated was to live the tranquil life of a comfortable colonial gentleman. After a youth that had been vexed by many experiences of the passion of love he had married happily and wisely, and had settled down to a gracious rural life at Mount Vernon, on the banks of the Potomac River.
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