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"Well, we'll try there," assented Cora, and for ten minutes they walked up and down the road, some distance back from the place where Ed had alighted. "Now try farther on," was Walter's suggestion, and they did this. But all to no purpose. They were not rewarded by the welcome sight of a brown leather wallet, bulging with riches. "It's no use," said Jack.
Walter's mind was full of the project on which he was bent.
Then Amos sprang to the window, and, opening the casement, shouted out. In a few moments Walter's face met his brother's. "Here he is! here he is!" he screamed out. "Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!" Old Harry came round to the barred window, and, lifting up his hands and eyes, exclaimed, "The Lord be praised!" Then followed rapid questionings.
And the novel in letters, which Scott began in 1819, who shall finish it, or tell us what he did with his fair Venetian courtezan, a character so much out of Sir Walter's way? He tossed it aside it was but an enchanted cigarette and gave us "The Fortunes of Nigel" in its place. I want both. We cannot call up those who "left half told" these stories.
"That is the way I always believed, but if Walter's idea is correct in regard to that mist, or misapprehension, then the first chapter of Genesis is correct, and in that case we could not possibly have a material body, but only think we have, and because we believe what we think, it would seem so to us.
Among the fruits of Captain Walter's devoted and gratuitous services in this cause has been a wholesome change in the bias of popular opinion as to the worth of old soldiers.
I should not be surprised if he had met with the blackcock; if so, we shall have an addition to our larder, for Walter is a pretty sure shot." I inquired into the nature of Walter's studies. "Faith," said Scott, "I can't say much on that head. I am not over bent upon making prodigies of any of my children.
He continued mischievously, as he saw that Tracy, on taking note of Walter's compact figure, showed signs of declining the combat. "Hush, Henderson," said Kenrick, one of the group who had taken no part in the talk; "it's a shame to be setting two new fellows fighting their first evening." But Henderson's last remark had been too much for Tracy.
One of Sir Walter's, or Mr. Southey's, or Mr. Milman's or Mr. Disraeli's? or shall I sprawl a Byron?" "I really cannot sanction such unprincipled conduct. You may make me one of Sir Walter's, however." "Poor Washington!" said Vivian, writing. "I knew him well. Be always slept at dinner. One day, as he was dining at: Mr.
"Seldom has any political measure called forth so strong and so universal an expression of public opinion. In every city and in every county public meetings were held to deprecate the destruction of the one pound and guinea notes." Annual Register , p. 24. Alex. Young of Harburn, a steady Whig of the old school, and a steady and esteemed friend of Sir Walter's. See Life, vol. iv. pp. 146-148.
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