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If it had been the first time of Sir Andrew Agnew's attempting to palm such a measure upon the country, we might well understand, and duly appreciate, the delicate and compassionate feeling due to the supposed weakness and imbecility of the man, which prevented his proposition being exposed in its true colours, and induced this Hon.
"Oh, I do love parties so," she declared, as they hurried along the streets. "I'm not used to being so dull as I've been here. It seems to me that you have mighty few doings for young people. I don't call candy-pulls and fudge parties real parties." "Probably you won't call this to-night a real party, then. There's never much that's exciting at Doctor Agnew's.
I had not plunged into the interior of the earth, but I had been carried under the mountains, and had emerged again into the glad light of the sun. Could it be possible, I thought, that Agnew's hope had been realized, and that I had been carried into the warm regions of the South Pacific Ocean?
They had decided some weeks before Bobby herself, Laura Belding, Jess Morse, the Lockwood twins and Dr. Agnew's daughter, Nellie that a portion at least of the long summer vacation should be spent in camp. The mooted question was, where? "No seashore resort," Nellie said, with more decision than she usually displayed, for Nellie was of a timid and peaceful disposition. "No," agreed Laura Belding.
"I think I remember before the war at Agnew's? My husband took me there once." The tone was hesitating. The little lady was clearly not learned in English art. But Lord Buntingford liked her the better for not pretending. "Of course. There's always an Emma, when Old Masters are on show. Romney painted her forty or fifty times. We've got one ourselves a sketch my grandfather bought.
Agnew's orders were to bring the Fanny in three weeks' time to a rendezvous marked on the chart between the Danish islands of Langeland and Fünen, where he was to pick up the cargo of arms, which Crawford would bring in lighters from Hamburg through the Kiel Canal.
Toward this object, all his thoughts and plans were gradually directed. Mary Agnew's father did not countenance this neighbor lover, however, and when Bayard set out for Europe he was not allowed to write to her. He sent messages through his mother, and occasionally heard from the young girl in the same way. On his return, however, he grew more bold, and soon became openly engaged to her.
As First-Lieutenant of Sir Andrew Agnew's regiment of marines, he had been "out" on the wrong side, for a Scot in the '45, and the butcher Cumberland having finally killed the cause at Culloden on 16th April, this warrior was now in Henley beating up recruits to fill the vacancies in the Hanoverian lines caused by the valour of the "rebels." Such a figure was a commonplace of the time, and Mr.
A hitherto unpublished letter from Henry Fox at the War Office, to Mr. Pitt, then Paymaster General, dated 14th March, 1752, is, by kind permission of Mr. After referring to Mary's conviction, the writer intimates that Cranstoun, "a reduc'd first Lieut. of Sir Andrew Agnew's late Regt. of Marines, now on the British Establishment of Half-Pay, was charged with contriving the manner of sd.
Several times Agnew interfered but finally Forrester sprang to his feet with an oath. "No man on earth can call me that!" shouted Harden, "Take it back and apologize, you rotter!" "A rotter, am I?" sneered Forrester. "And what are you? You come of a family of rotters. I know your sister's history! I know " Enoch laid a hand on Agnew's arm. "Don't interfere! Nothing but blood will wipe that out."
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