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I had the honor to communicate these movements to the executive of the state that the seat of government might be again re-established in the capital. Lord Cornwallis has received a reinforcement from Portsmouth. With the greatest respect I have the honor to be. Ambler's Plantation, opposite Jamestown, 8 July, 1781.
He has to aim by ear instead of sight." Mrs. Ambler's fingers moved quickly. "He has become a very fine man," she said. "Your father always liked him and so did I but at one time we were afraid that he was going to be too much his father's son he looked so like him on his wild days, especially when he had taken wine and his colour went high." "But he has the Lightfoot eyes.
The groom had just finished putting him to rights; the horse stood ready to be led from the field of his defeat. The groom moved out, and George went to the Ambler's head. There is no place, no corner, on a racecourse where a man may show his heart. George did but lay his forehead against the velvet of his horse's muzzle, and for one short second hold it there.
He curled up at the whip." George ground his teeth. "Curse you!" he muttered, "you little Cockney; what do you know about a horse?" The crowd surged; the speakers were lost to sight. The long descent from the stand gave him time. No trace of emotion showed on his face when he appeared in the paddock. Blacksmith the trainer stood by the Ambler's stall.
Why, if there were no post-offices, there'd be fewer newspapers; and if there were fewer newspapers, there wouldn't be the Richmond Whig." The Governor's glance wandered to his writing table. "Then I should never see my views in print, Major," he added, smiling; and a moment afterward, disregarding Mrs. Ambler's warning gestures, he plunged headlong into a discussion of political conditions.
His unexpected death appeared to have upset all Ambler's plans. He grunted and took a tour round the poorly-furnished chamber. "Look here!" he said, halting in front of me. "There's been foul play here. We must lose no time in calling the police not that they are likely to discover the truth." "Why do you say that?" "Because the poor fellow has been the victim of a secret assassin."
Justin H. Smith's Annexation of Texas and G. P. Garrison's Westward Extension , in American Nation series, give full and trustworthy accounts of the Texas movement; while Lyon G. Tyler's Times of the Tylers ; C. H. Ambler's Life of Thomas Ritchie ; J. W. DuBose's Life of William L. Yancey ; and J. F. H. Claiborne's Life and Correspondence of John A. Quitman , supply abundant material showing the temper and purposes of the different parts of the South in 1840.
"He is making an independent inquiry." "And what has he found?" she inquired breathlessly. "Nothing." Then, as I watched her closely, I saw that she breathed again more freely. By the manner in which she uttered Ambler's name I detected that she was not at all well-disposed towards him. Indeed, she spoke as though she feared that he might discover the truth.
The whole march through North Carolina and Virginia, and the campaign against Lafayette, were effected without tents or equipages, which confers honour on the activity of Lord Cornwallis, and justifies the reputation he had acquired, of being the best British general employed in that war. Ambler's Plantation, July 8th, 1781.
Ambler's presence fell heavily upon her face and she choked back a rising sob. What would the end be? she asked herself in sudden anguish, or was this the end? Reaching Chericoke she found Mrs. Lightfoot and Aunt Rhody drying sliced sweet potatoes on boards along the garden fence, where the sunflowers and hollyhocks flaunted in the face of want.
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