United States or Cocos Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
So he was brought over in a steamer from Adelaide, and then drove all the way up to Nomah. I wished he'd broken his neck before we ever saw him. Next thing I saw was Starlight being brought in, handcuffed, between two troopers, and looking as if he'd ridden a long way. He was just as easy-going and devil-may-care as ever. He said to one of the troopers
The way the Judge was traveling would carry him over 2,000 miles by rail, he said; southwest from Sydney down to Melbourne, then northward up to Adelaide, then a cant back northeastward and over the border into New South Wales once more to Broken Hill.
Indeed, we were rather proud of our doctor at Cranford, as a doctor. We often wished, when we heard of Queen Adelaide or the Duke of Wellington being ill, that they would send for Mr Hoggins; but, on consideration, we were rather glad they did not, for, if we were ailing, what should we do if Mr Hoggins had been appointed physician-in-ordinary to the Royal Family?
As she left the room Mr. Lanley was saying: "Yes, I don't want to go to Blackwell's Island. Lovely spot, of course. My grandfather used to tell me he remembered it when the Blackwell family still lived there. But I shouldn't care to wear stripes except for the pleasure of telling Alberta about it. It would give her a year's occupation, her suffering over my disgrace, wouldn't it, Adelaide?"
Adelaide glanced at the page, as if she did not know it by heart. "That? Oh! that is only Leam Dundas," she said with the faintest, finest flavor of scorn in her voice. "Leam Dundas?" repeated Edgar "the daughter of that awful woman?" "Yes, and nearly as odd as the mother," answered Adelaide, still in the same cold manner and with the same accent of superior scorn.
Still, common sense, repeatedly expressed, will have its influence; and, in course of time, it cannot fail to modify the fashions of society The last act of Queen Adelaide, by which she dispensed with the hired mummery of undertakers' grief, and the equally characteristic request of Sir Robert Peel on his deathbed, that no ceremony, nor pomp, should attend his last obsequies, cannot fail to have their due effect upon the fashionable world; and through them, the middle classes, who are so disposed to imitate them in all things, will in course of time benefit by their example.
I took particular notice of him, from his little waxy horns to his straight locks and long square quarters. And so I'd need to but that came after. He had only a little bit of a private brand on the shoulder. That was easily faked, and would come out quite different. We didn't go straight ahead along any main track to the Lower Murray and Adelaide exactly.
They were incessantly talking scandal of my past life, as if there were only saints at court, as if they had no pranks of their own to reproach themselves with. All the chateau knew of their lovers, and there was living evidence of the tenderness of madame Adelaide: as for madame Louise she was an angel upon earth, and was the only one who did not join in the cry against me.
Adelaide had the weakness to hate Josephine, the shrewdness to fear Madeline, and the viciousness to despise her mother; she skilfully and diligently devoted herself to the thwarting of the family.
You will soon see how sincere he is in his affection, and how grateful he feels for all the sacrifices that you have made sacrifices, Lucille, that you would not have made for me. 'Mother, murmured the poor girl in a tone of heart-broken reproach, 'I have given my beauty for him; but I have given my life for you. Adelaide listened no more.
Word Of The Day