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"Are such apartments uncommon, then, in Persia?" asked Phil, striving valiantly to interest herself in the conversation. "I do not say so," he returned, crossing one delicate foot over the other, in languorous fashion. "But many things which are typically of the Orient would probably disillusion you, Miss Abingdon." "In what way?" she asked, wondering why Mrs. McMurdoch had not joined them.
"How! is he grown ashamed on't?" said Lambourne, "Why, he was wont to boast of it, and say he liked as well to see a roasted heretic as a roasted ox." "Ay, but, kinsman, that was in Mary's time," replied the landlord, "when Tony's father was reeve here to the Abbot of Abingdon. But since that, Tony married a pure precisian, and is as good a Protestant, I warrant you, as the best."
When at last the car was drawn up before the porch of Hillside, and Ormuz Khan, stepping out, assisted the ladies to alight, for one moment Phil Abingdon hesitated, although she knew that it was already too late to do so. They were received by Mr. Rama Dass, his excellency's courteous secretary, whom she had already met, and whom Ormuz Khan presented to Mrs. McMurdoch.
It would have seemed a thing to endure; within his lifetime it was to be utterly destroyed. Once more in the many reaches between Abingdon and Wallingford, the sights would have been those which a man sees now.
'Young people nowadays, said Miss Abingdon, ascribing a riper age to Mr. Lawrence than he altogether approved 'young people nowadays think that everything that concerns themselves is what they call their own business. They talk as though they lived in some desert cave instead of in the midst of the world.
All the other Lords, however, who were present, manifested such a dislike to the sentiments of the Earl of Abingdon, that he withdrew his motion. After this, the hearing of evidence on the resolution of the House of Commons was resumed; and seven persons were examined before the close of the session. Continuation from July 1793 to July 1794. Author travels round the kingdom again.
If the Danes are about in the neighbourhood, it would be far more dangerous to expose your helpless ones without the fortifications. Have you all your people here, or are there a few sick?" "A few sick, only." "Let them be sought at once; the heathen will be revelling like fiends about the country. For the present I think Dorchester and Abingdon safe.
And Chad got permission straightway to go back to Ohio, and he mustered out with his old regiment, and he, too, started back through Virginia. Meanwhile, Dan was drawing near the mountains. He was worn out when he reached Abingdon. The wound in his shoulder was festering and he was in a high fever.
Windsor and Abingdon are the only towns between London and Oxford that you can really see anything of from the stream. All the others hide round corners, and merely peep at the river down one street: my thanks to them for being so considerate, and leaving the river-banks to woods and fields and water-works.
He seized tenor eleven persons, among whom was one Lloyd, a coffee-man; and made prize of some horses and furniture belonging to colonel Owen and other gentlemen. With this booty he retreated to Abingdon; and Handasyde's regiment of foot was afterwards quartered in Oxford to overawe the university. The ministry found it more difficult to suppress the insurgents in the northern counties.
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