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Updated: June 19, 2025
Lucy might be incredulous, but she was eager to tell that when her cousin Sedley Archfield was going back to 'chambers, down from the Close gate came the imp on his shoulders in the twilight and twisted both legs round his neck, holding tight on in spite of plunges, pinches, and endeavours to scrape him off against the wall, which were frustrated or retaliated by hair pulling, choking, till just ere entering the college gateway, where Sedley looked to get his revenge among his fellows, he found his shoulders free, and heard "Ho! ho! ho!" from the top of a wall close at hand.
Yet Sedley Archfield, whose regiment had, after all, been sent to Portsmouth, reported that he had spent the very next afternoon at a cock-fight, ending in a carouse with various naval and military officers at a tavern, not drinking, but contributing to the mirth by foreign songs, tricks, and jests.
"Decorum was not the vogue then," laughed Pauline, "perhaps it will be now. Oh, what lovely lace! real Flanders, on my word! Where did you get it, Miss Woodford?" "It was my mother's." "And this? Why, 'tis old French point, you should hang it to your sleeves." "My Lady Archfield gave it to me in case I should need it." "Ah!
Nor was anybody more joyous than little Philip, winning his Nana for a better mother to him than his own could ever have been It was in a blue velvet coat that Colonel Archfield was married. He had resigned his Austrian commission; and though the 'Salamander, was empowered to offer him an excellent staff appointment in the English army, he decided to refuse.
How transfer her own heavy burthen to her uncle, who might feel bound to take steps that would cut young Archfield off from parents, sister, child, and home. Or supposing Dr.
The marquis had a great deal to hear from his cousin about his home, and thus it happened that Charles Archfield and Anne found themselves more practically alone together than they had yet been.
"It is nothing," cried she. "O Mr. Oakshott! that this should have happened!" "My lord, this is the young gentlewoman I told you of, betrothed to poor young Archfield," said Sir Edmund Nutley.
Sedley Archfield, after a long illness, owed recovery both in body and mind to Mrs. Oakshott, and by her arrangement finally obtained a fresh commission in a regiment raised for the defence of the possessions of the East India Company.
"Oh! you will come back to him," was all that could be said. For it was time for Charles Archfield to surrender himself to take his trial.
Woodford, as having been one of the kindest friends of his poor son, adding that he could not ask Sir Philip Archfield, although he knew him to be no partner in the guilt of his unhappy nephew, who so fully exemplified that Divine justice may be slow, but is sure. Dr. Woodford decided on accepting the invitation, not only for Peregrine's sake, but to see how the land lay.
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