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In the concluding chapter to his History of England, Froude wrote that "for a hundred and forty years after the Revolution of 1688, the Church of England was able to fulfil with moderate success the wholesome functions of a religious establishment.
Poor dear M. Lenoir was right when he wrote to me in the matter of the Queen's necklace, 'You will never do any good, when he heard that I did not stay under that slut Oliva's bed."
One illustrious English traveller, however, just two hundred years ago, thought otherwise. In a recently-unearthed letter of Addison to Bishop Hough, dated 27th October, 1700, he wrote: 'I was about three days ago at Orange, which is a very fruitful and pleasant spot of ground. The governor, who is a native of the place, told me there were about 5,000 people in it, and one-third were Protestants.
"Well, that will be better than putting it in the stove yourself," she observed, going back with an air of placidity to her sewing, "because then you'll know it's bad and if you burn it up now, you won't. You haven't even heard it." "I heard it before I wrote it," he argued. "I hear it again when I read it. That's a silly argument. Of course I know it."
Cunningham is not implicated. But the bag is still a clue, for how did it get into Mr. Crawford's office?" "We must find out who Mr. Cunningham is," I suggested. "He's not the criminal, either. If he had left his wife's bag there, he never would have let her send this letter." "Perhaps he didn't know she wrote it." "Oh, perhaps lots of things! But I am anxious to learn what Mrs.
"So you sent your husband, next best thing." "It wasn't so bad. I helped him, you know." "Wrote all his speeches, kicked up all of his dust for him, didn't you?" "Not all, but I helped." "With your scrapbooks, for example?" "Yes," she admitted. "If you had been a man, Susan, you'd not have survived some of the things you've said and done."
At length he began to write rapidly. He soon finished and sealed this letter. Then he wrote a second and a longer one, sealed that also. One the first written he put in the secret drawer of the desk; the other he dropped into his pocket. Then he took "a long, last, lingering look" around the room.
Her one motive was to avoid actual contact with events. She only wrote out a long telegram to Ursula and Birkin. In the afternoon, however, she rose suddenly to look for Loerke. She glanced with apprehension at the door of the room that had been Gerald's. Not for worlds would she enter there. She found Loerke sitting alone in the lounge. She went straight up to him.
Burney great kindness and friendly offices from both of these gentleman, not only on that occasion, but in future visits to the university . The same year Dr. Johnson not only wrote to Dr. Joseph Warton in favour of Dr. Burney's youngest son, who was to be placed in the college of Winchester, but accompanied him when he went thither .
I wrote the following letter to General Halleck: NEAR SPOTTSYLVANIA C. H., May 11, 1864 8.30 A.M. MAJOR-GENERAL HALLECK, Chief of Staff of the Army, Washington, D. C. We have now ended the 6th day of very hard fighting. The result up to this time is much in our favor. But our losses have been heavy as well as those of the enemy.
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