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It was a strong circumstance in favor of Wakeman, that Oates, in his first information before the council, had accused him only upon hearsay; and when asked by the chancellor, whether he had any thing further to charge him with, he added, "God forbid I should say any thing against Sir George; for I know nothing more against him." On the trial he gave positive evidence of the prisoner's guilt.
"Don't dare to do it," she said, "it's my right No one else has so good a right to do it as I have." So Private Wakeman sat down to a plate piled with stewed figs, swamped with a yellowish liquid called custard in canteens in France. Beside him were jam tarts and great slabs of cake.
She laid a soft, white, dimpled hand, covered with glistening rings, in his outstretched palm, and gazed at him with coquettish plaintiveness. "It's so lovely to see you again! Have you forgotten the night you kissed me?" "I have thought of it daily," he replied, giving her hand a hearty squeeze. They both laughed, and he took a surreptitious peep at her from under his eyelids. Marie Wakeman!
"There's the Bishop of S , I see, and Major Wakeman, who I suppose is the officer who has been doing so well in India. There's a Member of Parliament, too, I see. It seems a good set of directors." "Of course they aren't likely all to turn up at board meetings," said Reginald, with an explanatory air.
He had only time to assist his cousin's wife and the beautiful Miss Wakeman into a carriage, and in another moment they were all rolling away toward the town hall, with little Mr. Groper running frantically after them, ignored by the visitors, and peacefully forgotten by his friend.
Almost the last act of the mob this evening was the burning of Postmaster Wakeman's house, in Eighty-sixth Street. Mrs. Wakeman was noted for her kindness to the poor and wretched, who now repaid her by sacking and burning her house. The precinct station near by was also destroyed. In the meanwhile, an event happened which threatened to disarrange all the plans that had been laid.
Thus her friendships with the many she loved and served have closed with unalloyed satisfaction to me and mine a sincere friend for more than thirty years! And no words come that I might wish unsaid unless these: "Be careful now, for I have told more than one that you are my god-father!" From Mrs. Croly to Mr. Wakeman 19 BANK STREET, NEW YORK, Sept. 26, 1870. My dear Mr.
The last case cited above, in stating the arguments for absolute responsibility, was Leame v. There was therefore no question of absolute responsibility for one's acts before the court, as negligence was admitted; and the language used is all directed simply to the proposition that the damage need not have been done intentionally. In Wakeman v.
The audience tittered, and the discomfited witness retired in a state of great embarrassment. Mr. Wakeman took the stand and swore that he saw the twins kick the plaintiff off the platform. The defense took the witness. "Mr. Wakeman, you have sworn that you saw these gentlemen kick the plaintiff. Do I understand you to swear that you saw them both do it?" "Yes, sir," with decision.
He would invariably refer to it, telling one in his humorously unconvincing way that 'he had just put in the butterfly. Those of us who had seen his work in the drawing class presided over by 'Bully' Wakeman at Portora were not likely to be deceived in the matter....
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