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'I do not believe, says my brother, 'that I was ever once called upon to construe at my tutor's after I got into the fifth form. An absurd importance, too, was already attached to the athletic amusements. Balston, our tutor, was a good scholar after the fashion of the day and famous for Latin verse; but he was essentially a commonplace don.
He vividly remembers a sermon delivered by one of the Fellows, a pompous old gentleman, who solemnly gave out the bidding prayer, and then began in these words, 'which ring in my ears after the lapse of more than forty years. 'The subject of my discourse this morning, my brethren, will be the duties of the married state. When Balston was examined before a Public Schools Commission, he gave what Fitzjames considers 'a perfectly admirable answer to one question. He had said that the Provost and Fellows did all the preaching, and was asked whether he did not regret that he could not, as headmaster, use this powerful mode of influencing the boys?
These alarms are all wrong your men are either soldiers or farmers; they cannot be both unless they live close enough to the forts. Tell Mr. Schell that Francy McCraw and his riders are in the forest, and that the Brandt-Meester of Balston saw a Mohawk smoke-signal on the mountain behind Mayfield."
It was dark, but the stars were bright, and he thought that he should like to be walking fast by himself along the line of rails towards Balston. There he stood, perhaps for three minutes. He thought it would be proper to give Susan time to recover from her tears. "Will you please to come to your tea, sir?" said the soft voice of Mrs. Bell. He turned round to do so, and found that Susan was gone.
She rides with us to Albany I mean Magdalen we wed at my aunt's house " The trumpet of the Legion was sounding persistently; the clatter of spurred boots filled the hallway; Ruyven burst in, sabre banging, and flung himself into my arms. "Good-bye! Good-bye!" he cried. "We are marching with the left wing to Balston.
"If the Mohawks strike, they will strike through here at Balston or Saratoga, or at the half-dozen families left at Fonda's Bush, which some of them call Broadalbin." "Have these poor wretches no one to warn them?" I asked. "Oh, they have been warned and warned, but they cling to their cabins as cats cling to soft cushions.
An immense fatigue chained mind and tongue; intelligence was there, but the tension had relaxed, and I stood dull, nerveless, my hands limp in his. "Ormond," he said, gently, "we ride south in a few moments; you will be leaving for Stillwater in an hour. Gates's left wing is marching on Balston, and news is in by an Oneida runner that Arnold has swept all before him; Stanwix is safe; St.
"Loot?" said Colonel Boundary, puzzled. "I don't understand you." "I'll put it plainer," said White, his eyes like smouldering fire: "a year ago you got young Balston the shipowner to put fifty thousand pounds into a fake company." He heard Maisie gasp, but went on. "How you did it I'm not going to tell before the girl, but it was blackmail which you and Pinto engineered.
"The name of that singular man," he said, "is Dexter Balston, and he is by birth a Virginian. You heard the girl call him 'Deck, which you no doubt took to be 'Dick, but which she really meant as a familiar abbreviation of his name. It is a little singular that I should have met him first at a theatre, and not far from the one at which we just now encountered him.
"I would not part them now; no, not if " and the widow shuddered as she thought of her daughter's sunken eyes, and pale cheeks. "He is a good lad," said Phineas, "and I trust she will make him a sober steady wife;" and so the matter was settled. During this time, Susan and Aaron were walking along the Balston road; and they also had settled the matter quite as satisfactorily.
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