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Only the rich, steady tones of Miss Bartram's voice WOULD make their way into his ears, and every light, careless sentence printed itself upon his memory. They came to him as if from some inaccessible planet. Poor fellow! he was not the first to feel "the desire of the moth for the star."
She looked at him closer Noel Vanstone was dead. III. The Darkest Hour In pursuance of her determination to discover the secret trust, Magdalen secured a position as parlourmaid in Admiral Bartram's house. For days she waited for an opportunity of examining the admiral's papers.
Away went Deacon Quickset to Bartram's office, and was so fortunate as to find the lawyer in. He went right at his subject: "Well, young man, you've been in nice business, haven't you? trying to go up to the throne of grace right behind a jail-bird, while the leaders and teachers whom the Lord has selected have been spurned by you for years!"
They built another fort on the other side of Bartram's Gardens along the meadow near what is now Gibson's Point; and Governor Printz had a great mill a couple of miles away on Cobb's Creek, where the old Blue Bell tavern has long stood. These two forts protected the mill and the Indian villages in West Philadelphia.
She lived over in Red Kill where he had taught school, and was one of his pupils. I have often heard him say: "I rode your Uncle Martin's old sorrel mare over to her folks' when I went courting her." When he would be affectionate toward her before others, Mother would say, "Now, Chauncey, don't be foolish." Father bought the farm of 'Riah Bartram's mother, and moved on it in 1827.
The one apparent compensation under the disaster in other words, the discovery that the Trust actually existed, and that George Bartram's marriage within a given time was one of the objects contained in it was a compensation which could only be estimated at its true value by placing it under the light of Mr. Loscombe's experience.
Magdalen was struck, as her sister had been struck, by George Bartram's resemblance to her father judging by the portrait at Combe-Raven, which presented the likeness of Andrew Vanstone in his younger days.
Annoyed no little, for here I meant to land, I turned the boat, still hidden by the tall reeds, and soon drew up the skiff at Bartram's, where, taking gun and snapsack, I went up the slope. I found Mr. William Bartram standing under a fine cypress his father had fetched as a slip from Florida in 1731.
"I inclose, as you desire, a copy of the Will executed by your late husband on the third of this month. There can be no question of the genuineness of the original document. I protested, as a matter of form, against Admiral Bartram's solicitor assuming a position of authority at Baliol Cottage.
Fuel was added to the fire of her discontent when her mother announced one morning that Jane Kimper had arrived and would assist the couple at their sewing. To Eleanor, Jane represented the Kimper family, the head of which was the cause of Reynolds Bartram's extraordinary course.
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