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Barclay limped into his room, while the general rubbed the dust off the windows. In a minute John came stumbling in with a chair, and as he set it down he said, "Here comes the first raven, General, and now if you'll kindly come and give the ravens a lift, they'll bring you a table."
"How I wish I'd been there, instead of fagging round that great palace full of rubbish! A real Duchess! Won't the Sibleys stare? We shall hear no more of Lady Watts Barclay after this, I guess, and you will be treated with great respect; see if you are not!" said Ethel, much impressed with her companion's good fortune and eager to tell it.
Had he not received and travelled with ministers when they came on religious visits into these parts? Had he not taken them in his tax-cart to the next place, and been once upset in a deep and dirty lane with a weighty ministering friend, and dislocated his collar-bone? What? He not a Quaker! Was George Fox one, did they think; or William Penn, or Robert Barclay, indeed?
Perry's flagship soon struck her colours, but Barclay, his own ship a wreck, could not even secure the prize. Through the lack of naval skill of the inexperienced landsmen, the British ships fouled, and were helplessly exposed to the broadside of the enemy. The heavier metal of Perry's guns soon reduced them to unmanageable hulks. The carnage was dreadful.
The dragon continued talking to Ruth, while Carl listened, in the interstices of his chatter to Olive: "I hope you haven't been giving all your time and beauty-sleep doing too much of that settlement work, Ruthie and Heaven only knows what germs you will get there of course I should be the first to praise any work for the poor, ungrateful and shiftless though they are what with my committees and the Truegate Temperance Home for Young Working Girls it's all very well to be sympathetic with them, but when it comes to a settlement-house, and Heaven knows I have given them all the counsel and suggestions I could, though some of the professional settlement workers are as pert as they can be, and I really do believe some of them think they are trying to end poverty entirely, just as though the Lord would have sent poverty into the world if He didn't have a very good reason for it you will remember the Bible says, 'The poor you always have with you, and as Florence Barclay says in her novels, which may seem a little sentimental, but they are of such a good moral effect, you can't supersede the Scriptures even in the most charming social circles.
Why does thee persist in pretending that there is a William Jones? And then she started to look through Barclay to find if he had anything that would fit the William Jones part of the case. "What could I do?
“There,” said Barclay, indicating a group of these idle observers, “you can at least do that.” “But what’s the use?” “Make yourself a critic; pick out eight or ten fellows to watch especially. In football or tennis or running. It doesn’t much matter. If they find you’re taking an intelligent interest in what they’re doing, they’ll be pleased.
Despite his seniority in rank Bagration, in this contest of magnanimity, took his orders from Barclay, but, having submitted, agreed with him less than ever. By the Emperor's orders Bagration reported direct to him. For God's sake send me somewhere else if only in command of a regiment. I cannot stand it here.
Her father was John Samuel Raboteau, the descendant of Huguenot refugees who had fled from France on the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes; her mother was Esther Barclay, a member of a family which gave the name of Barclaysville to a small town half way between Raleigh and Fayetteville, North Carolina.
"I am Ralph Barclay, and this is my brother Percy," Ralph said, respectfully. "Impossible!" the three generals exclaimed, simultaneously; while there was a general exclamation of surprise, from the officers round for the courageous deed of the Barclays, in making their way through the enemy's lines, had been a general topic of conversation, and all Paris was familiar with their names.
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