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Douglas and Abernethy continued the chase, not giving King Edward time to alight from horseback even for an instant, and followed him as far as Dunbar, where the English had still a friend in the governor, Patrick, Earl of March.
Something of my uncle's sneer may have flickered upon my lips as I heard him allude with supercilious surprise to the presence in those sacrosanct circles of the men who had stood between the country and destruction. "By the way, nephew," said he, "gout or no gout, and whether Abernethy likes it or not, we must be down at Crawley to-night. The battle will take place upon Crawley Downs.
John Hunter- -whose observation was so keen that Abernethy was accustomed to speak of him as "the Argus-eyed" furnished an illustrious example of the power of patient industry. He received little or no education till he was about twenty years of age, and it was with difficulty that he acquired the arts of reading and writing.
Folks say she had a cork foot. Hey, Simeon, DID she have a cork foot?" Mr. Calthrop flushed painfully, but he forced himself courageously to answer. "Mr. Abernethy, I do not know," he said humbly, and with the look of a stricken animal in his big brown eyes. He was a handsome young fellow of about thirty or he would have been handsome, Cleggett thought, had he not been so emaciated.
Abernethy thinks his pill an infallible cure for all disorders.
"Sure," answered Bart with an off-handed alacrity that was distressing to the responsibility burdened personality of the accredited representative of Monroe, Purcell & Abernethy. He dashed off an O.K. on the two documents, tendered them with exaggerated courtesy to his visitor, who he was well aware knew his name perfectly, and said, with the faintest suggestion of mimicry: "Ah, Mr.
"Do you remember the story they tell of Abernethy?" "No; hang Abernethy!" "To be sure! Hang him and welcome. But, once upon a time, a certain miser conceived the design of spunging upon this Abernethy for a medical opinion. Getting up, for this purpose, an ordinary conversation in a private company, he insinuated his case to the physician as that of an imaginary individual."
Douglas followed hotly on the King, with sixty horse, and on the way met Sir Laurence Abernethy with twenty more, coming to join the English; but finding how matters stood, the time-serving knight gladly proceeded to hunt the fugitives, and they scarcely let Edward II. draw rein till he had ridden sixty miles, even to Dunbar, whence he escaped by sea.
Pamela heard him cross the passage and open the kitchen door and begin politely, "Good morning, Miss Bathgate." "What are ye wantin' here wi' thae dirty boots?" Bella demanded. "I came in to see the Honourable, and she has nothing to give poor Peter to eat. Could he have a tea biscuit not an Abernethy one, please, he doesn't like them or a bit of cake?" "Of a' the impidence!" ejaculated Bella.
They will sit there, for hours, leaning on great, dropsical, mildewed umbrellas, or eating Abernethy biscuits. Nobody speaks to them, nor they to any one.
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