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At Union Mills Ford, Brigadier-General R. S. Ewell's Second Brigade, of three Infantry regiments, three Cavalry companies, and four 12-powder howitzers Colonel Jubal A. Early's Sixth Brigade, of three Infantry regiments and three rifled pieces of Walton's Battery, being posted in the rear of, and as a support to, Ewell's Brigade. Gen.
The great English prose writers in the field of the personal essay during the seventeenth century were Sir Thomas Browne, Thomas Fuller, and Abraham Cowley, though Walton's Compleat Angler is a kindred work.
Walton's resignation will signify it in the usual way." Fletcher raised his hand, but he was alone. "Those who are opposed," said the President. Every other hand except Harry's was now raised. "Mr. Walton, your resignation is not accepted," said the presiding officer. "I call upon you to assume the duties of your new position." Harry rose, and, modestly advanced to the chair.
"He'll have a pocket full of such talismans by the time he's through college," she thought, recalling the kodak pictures she had just seen. "I'm mighty glad that I didn't give him one." Over at The Beeches, Elise and her little friends had arranged to give a Christmas play, so promptly at the hour agreed upon the party "progressed" in Mrs. Walton's wake.
At the margin of the lake stood a solitary angler who now, his evening's task done, was employed in leisurely disjointing his rod and whistling with much sweetness an air from one of Izaak Walton's songs. Mainwaring reached the angler and laid his hand on his shoulder. "What sport, Ardworth?" "A few large roach with the fly, and one pike with a gudgeon, a noble fellow! Look at him!
"Good heavens!" he thought, "if she should take this for a declaration and accept me on the spot, I should then be in the worst scrape of my sorry life." Miss Walton's manner rather puzzled him.
"If such be the case," answered Bend-the-Bow, "we may sufficiently do our duty by sending yourself, with the first grey light of dawn, to the castle, and letting your son remain in bed, which I warrant is the fittest place for him, until we shall receive Sir John de Walton's commands whether he is to be brought onward or not."
If they'd a been my apples I might have held in a little longer, but John Walton's it was like a dam givin' way." "It was, indeed," said Gregory, significantly. "It was like several." "I knowed my wife heard me, and if she'd come right out and said, 'You've made a cussed old fool of yourself, I think I would have felt better.
His plan for dealing with sentries reminds one of old Isaak Walton's direction to his piscatorial readers, to impale the frog on the hook as gently as if they loved him. While at Acton, he was complained of by Dr. Ryves, the rector, one of the King's chaplains in ordinary, for holding religious services in his family with more than five strangers present.
Walton's life casts the shadow of divorce on her pathway, but it is only the warm, restful shadow of a ripening and mellowing sorrow. Do not fear to have Millie walk in it. It will be better for her than the steady glare from a glacier. I find I have said so much about your sister that I must reserve my counsel about your children for another letter.
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