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Miss Amesbury, wearily finishing her evening's work, was suddenly greeted by a burst of song from beneath her balcony; a surpassing deep, rich alto, beautifully blended with a number of clear, pure sopranos, accompanied by mandolin and guitar.
Phipps scowled across the table to where Wingate's head was nearly touching Josephine's. "Lady Dredlinton seems to be achieving great popularity in every direction," he said sourly. "And a jolly good thing, too," Lady Amesbury declared. "If ever a woman earned the right to kick the traces away for a bit, Josephine has.
Poor Macdonald's case was most undoubtedly cholera. It is said that Lord Amesbury also died of cholera, though no very strange explanation seems necessary to account for the death of a man of eighty-four.
And Sir Lancelot and seven of the other Knights went on foot from Glastonbury to Amesbury, and it took them two days to compass the distance, for it was far and they were weak with fasting. When they reached the nunnery Queen Guenevere had been dead but half an hour, and she had first summoned her ladies to her, and told them that Sir Lancelot had been a priest for near a twelvemonth.
His hostess proceeded to give the latter some of her attention. "Mr. Phipps," she said, "they tell me you've taken that scoundrel of a nephew of mine Dredlinton into your business, whatever it is. He won't do you any good, you know." "I'm very sorry to hear that," Phipps replied. "He seemed to me rather a brainy person for his order." "One for me," Lady Amesbury chuckled. "I don't care.
It may be guessed that a plank or a partition had given way under the pressure of the crowd of lookers-on collected for so extraordinary a spectacle. At the end of another four weeks the court sat again and sentenced five women, two of Salem, and one each of Amesbury, Ipswich, and Topsfield, all of whom were executed, protesting their innocence.
When allowance has been made for this, he remains one of the most admirable characters and writers in English literature. SUMMARY. B. Amesbury, ed. Charterhouse and Oxford; received travelling pension, 1699; Campaign leads to political office; goes to Ireland, 1708; assists Steele in Tatler, 1709; Spectator started, 1711; marries Lady Warwick, 1716; Secretary of State, 1716-18; d. 1719.
Saltonstall, riding up to him, asked him if he did expect Haverhill folks to pay him forty shillings for killing that Amesbury wolf? "How you know Amesbury wolf?" asked the Indian. "Oh," said Mr. Saltonstall, "you can't cheat us again, Simon. You must be honest, and tell no more lies, or we will have you whipped for your tricks."
In this belief my letter was written. I am sorry it did not fall to the lot of a more fitting hand; and can only hope that no consideration of lack of qualification on the part of its writer may lessen the value of whatever testimony to truth shall be found in it. AMESBURY, 3d mo., 1870.
"Have you heard the news, aunt?" Sarah asked across the table. "About that silly little Mrs. Liddiard Green, do you mean, and Jack Fulton? I hear they were seen in Paris together last week." "Pooh! Who cares about Mrs. Liddiard Green!" Sarah scoffed. "I mean the news about Jimmy. The dear boy's gone into the City." "God bless my soul!" Lady Amesbury exclaimed. "How much has he got to lose?"
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