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My ward's fortune was then not very considerable; and, actuated by an uncle's affection for his niece as well as a guardian's caution for his ward, I conceived it my duty to ascertain whether a withdrawal from the engagement in contemplation between Miss Wyndham and yourself would be detrimental to her happiness. I found that my ward's views agreed with my own.
The oaken doors saved from the flames of the burning Hall served for this new home, which overlooked the grounds of their old home. The site of the latter is marked by Ward's "Indian Hunter." Aptly placed, peering through mists of green toward the author's church-yard grave, he is a most fitting guardian of the one-time garden of Fenimore Cooper. By the generosity of the late Mrs.
"I am going to see your mother and your stepfather." "Aneta!" "Yes." "Oh Aneta, you must not see him!" "It is probable that I shall seem him, dear; I am not easily alarmed. I will take Aunt Lucia with me. I am going downstairs now to ask Mrs. Ward's permission." "And you will say nothing about me?" "Something, but nothing of your story.
"Dastardly shame!" he exclaimed, after he had assured himself of my identity. "Joseph Crawford was one of our best citizens, one of our finest men. He hadn't an enemy in the world, my dear Mr. Burroughs not an enemy! generous, kindly nature, affable and friendly with all." "But I understand he frowned on his ward's love affair, Mr. Carstairs." "Yes; yes, indeed. And who wouldn't?
They then proceeded to show how they would answer it, by appointing the son of Samuel Pearce to Serampore as Mr. Ward's assistant.
Men came tramping up the screaking outside stairs that conducted to the office; the Squire had a room over Ward's general store. The men were led into the office by Isaac Jones "Gid-dap Ike," he was named the driver of the mail stage between Egypt and the railroad at Levant. For a moment Squire Hexter looked really alarmed.
'I have been to Portland. Really my father ought to make a stir and get Ward's health attended to; he looks very much altered, but will not own to anything being amiss. They say he has been depressed ever since he heard of Minna's death. I should say he ought to be doing out-of-doors work perhaps at Gibraltar, but then he would be out of our reach.
Capes was inclined to support Miss Klegg until Miss Garvice cornered him by quoting him against himself, and citing a recent paper in the Nineteenth Century, in which, following Atkinson, he had made a vigorous and damaging attack on Lester Ward's case for the primitive matriarchate and the predominant importance of the female throughout the animal kingdom.
See the admirable article by Lord Justice Bowen on 'The Administration of the Law' in Ward's Reign of Queen Victoria, vol. i. It is obvious from the considerations that have been adduced in the last chapter that the moral limitations and conditions under which an ordinary member of Parliament is compelled to work are far from ideal.
Harry's suspicion was roused by the circumstance that his guardian did not again refer to his money, nor did he manifest any disappointment at his ward's declining to intrust him with it. During the evening, Joel brought out a backgammon board, and proposed to Harry to play. If there would have been anything to read Harry would have preferred entertaining himself in that way, but Mr.
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