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The reader sees that Harry Woodward, having ascertained the mutual affection which subsisted between his brother and Alice, resorted to such measures as were likely to place obstructions in the way of their meeting, which neither of them was likely to remove.
A heated argument followed until finally a corporal of the guards was called and led off the tramp toward the headquarters. It was only a few minutes before Woodward was convinced of the identity of the tramp with his friend, Professor Arnold. At the head of a squad of cavalry, Woodward and the tramp dashed off.
Is not her health good?" "Pray, sir," replied her father, "how did you come to obtrude yourself here at such a moment of domestic distress?" "Why, my dear sir," replied Woodward, "of course you must know that I was ignorant of all this.
I trust that I yet may be proud of knowing you 'No one will ever be proud of me, said Charley. 'We shall all be proud of you, if you will resolve to turn away from childish things now that you are no longer a child your faults are faults which as yet may be so easily relinquished. But, oh, Charley and then Mrs. Woodward paused and looked wistfully into his face.
C. A discussion of the various theories of the earth put forward by Scheuchzer, Moro, Bonnet, Woodward, White, Leibnitz, Linnaeus, and Buffon. The third part contains an "Attempt to give a sound explanation of the ancient history of the earth."
He looked sternly at Woodward as he uttered the last words, and then took his departure to Rathfillan, having first told Barney Casey to call on him the next day. After Greatrakes had gone, Woodward repaired to the room of his mother, in a state of agitation which we cannot describe. "Mother," said he, "unless we can manage that old peer and his niece, I am a lost man."
Indeed, so cunning does masculine stupidity become when it is played upon by a woman, that he frightened himself with the suggestion that perhaps, after all, this perfectly original young lady was in love with Tip Watson. During the rest of the day Woodward had ample time to nurse and develop his new theory, and the more he thought it over the more plausible it seemed to be.
Johnson owns Woodward will be a good Ulric, as he plays the Mercutio parts very gaily; and so, by one and t'other, the audience fancies the play already on the boards, and casts the characters. In act the second, Carpezan has married Sybilla. He has enriched himself in the wars, has been ennobled by the Emperor, and lives at his castle on the Danube in state and splendour.
Woodward, 'you're a made man; won't that do beautifully to play with on board the big ship? 'And so, Harry, you have given up official life altogether, said Gertrude. 'Yes, said he 'the last day of the last year saw my finale at the Weights and Measures. I did not live long officially to enjoy my promotion. I almost wish myself back again.
Woodward was sitting with a book in her usual place at the side of Katie's bed; she looked every now and again at her patient, and thought that she was slumbering; and at last she rose from her chair to creep away, so sure was she that she might be spared for a moment. But just as she was silently rising, a thin, slight, pale hand crept out from beneath the clothes, and laid itself on her arm.
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