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Seven of our permanent guests now left together: the telephone operators, Tradesman Batt, Schoolmistresses Johnsen and Palm, and two men who were in some sort of business, I don't quite know what. This whole party went across the fjeld to Stordalen to be driven about in cars. Cases of various kinds of foodstuffs arrived for Paul; they were carried up one evening by a man from the village.

"I'll thank him to mind his own business," he grumbled. "Oh, he thinks he's doing it." "Well, his business isn't either of the Ambler girls, and I'll have him to know it. What right has he got, I'd like to know, to come up here and fall in love with our neighbours." "Oh, Beau, Beau! Why, it was only last week you ran him away from Batt Horsford's daughter.

It was the ardent desire to penetrate to the source and to make others understand that impelled him, even when he availed himself of these projects of study to raise a little money. 'Listen, he writes to Batt, 'to what more I desire from you. You know the man's disposition; invent some modest and plausible reason for begging.

Captain Batt was believed to be far away; his family was at Oakwell; when in the dusk, one winter evening, he came stalking along the lane, and through the hall, and up the stairs, into his own room, where he vanished. He had been killed in a duel in London that very same afternoon of December 9th, 1684.

Turning off from this to the right, you ascend through an old pasture-field, and enter a short by-road, called the "Bloody Lane" a walk haunted by the ghost of a certain Captain Batt, the reprobate proprietor of an old hall close by, in the days of the Stuarts. From the "Bloody Lane," overshadowed by trees, you come into the field in which Oakwell Hall is situated.

Death of Batt: 1502 First stay at Louvain: 1502-4 Translations from the Greek At Paris again Valla's Annotationes on the New Testament Second stay in England: 1505-6 More patrons and friends Departure for Italy: 1506 Carmen Alpestre Circumstances continued to remain unfavourable for Erasmus. 'This year fortune has truly been raging violently against me, he writes in the autumn of 1502.

I could see battalion after battalion coming down the Fortuyn road in extended order, and I knew that in a short time there would be an advance of these troops north-easterly towards the Poelcapelle road, closing the dangerous space held by the remnant of the 7th Battalion and taking over our supporting trenches and the crest of the gap along the Gravenstafel ridge to the 8th Batt.

Erasmus as an Augustinian canon at Steyn His friends Letters to Servatius Humanism in the monasteries: Latin poetry Aversion to cloister-life He leaves Steyn to enter the service of the Bishop of Cambray: 1493 James Batt Antibarbari He gets leave to study at Paris: 1495

Derbyshire Regiment, being duly sworn, state: 'Whilst lying wounded on the ground with two other wounded men four Boers came up to us, dismounted, and fired a volley at us. We were all hit again, and Private Goodwin, of our regiment, was killed. The Boers then took our arms away, and after swearing at us rode away. Corporal Sargent, 1st Batt.

They are the valued and faithful friend whom he got to know at Bergen, James Batt, schoolmaster and afterwards also clerk of that town, and his old friend William Hermans of Steyn, whose literary future he continued somewhat to promote. William, arriving unexpectedly from Holland, meets the others, who are later joined by the Burgomaster of Bergen and the town physician.

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