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Accordingly Sharpe's brigade debarked at Alexandria on the 26th, and the Second brigade under Molineux on the 28th, but Nickerson stayed for a fortnight longer at Carrollton. Vincent, who with the 2d Louisiana cavalry had been watching and reporting Lee's movement and regularly falling back before his advance, joined Taylor at Carroll Jones's on the 19th.
I shall write to the Commissioner of Police, asking that when they again go to Vincent Square some policemen may be put on duty, not of course to accompany them, but to interfere at once if they see any signs of a repetition of this business.
Lucy remained at Richmond until the beginning of March, when Vincent took her home to Georgia again, and a week after his return rejoined the army on the Rappahannock. Every effort had been made by the Confederate authorities to raise the army of General Lee to a point that would enable him to cope with the tremendous force the enemy were collecting for the ensuing campaign.
John Vincent loved his wife with the tenderness of an innocent man, but all his tenderness could not avail to lift the weight of settled melancholy which had gathered upon her. Disappointment, waiting, yearning, indulgence in long lament and self-pity, the morbid cultivation of unhappy fancies all this had wrought its work upon her, and it was too late to effect a cure.
And his caresses are the same way just a little bit constrained, you know." Iris Vincent had learned all she cared to know. "Thank you, dear, ever so much, for gratifying my curiosity," she said aloud; but in her own heart she said: "I knew it I knew it! Handsome Harry Kendal does not love this girl with whom they have forced him into a betrothal.
Dalglish occupied as a dwelling-house the building now used as the offices of the firm in St Vincent Place the business part of the city being at that time within a short radius of the Cross. The grounds or policies attached to the house extend to 140 acres, and within recent years Mr. Dalglish has expended a great deal of both money and taste on his fine property. Of Mr.
I was certain that I had, and directly afterwards put down, as well as I could remember, all Captain Frankland had said. The next day we sighted Saint Vincent, one of the ten islands which form the Cape de Verd group, so-called from being off the Cape de Verds, on the coast of Africa. The islands belong to the Portuguese.
'I never saw a young fellow so regularly cut out for that line, since I've been in the profession. And I played the heavy children when I was eighteen months old. The appearance of the beef-steak pudding, which came in simultaneously with the junior Vincent Crummleses, turned the conversation to other matters, and indeed, for a time, stopped it altogether.
We had better have some breakfast before we make our start. If you can't find your way back, whistle, and I will answer you." Dan, however, had no occasion to give the signal. It took him little more than five minutes to traverse the distance that had occupied them half an hour in the thick darkness, and Vincent was surprised when he appeared again with the kettle.
Such fellows are always too ashamed of themselves not to be proud of their clothes like the Chinese mariners, they burn incense before the needle!" "And Mr. Howard de Howard," said I, laughing, "what do you think of him?" "What! the thin secretary?" cried Vincent. "He is the mathematical definition of a straight line length without breadth. His inseparable friend, Mr.
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