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So busy, indeed, was she generally, on these solitary wanderings of hers, with her own thoughts and fancies, that sometimes she laughed to herself a low, quiet little laugh that none but herself could hear. This was Miss Anne Beresford, who was called by her sisters Nan.
This was what Admiral Beresford had fought for: to break the centre and put as many battleships as possible out of action. His orders had been to spare the cruisers as much as possible, because, he said, with a somewhat grim laugh, they might be useful later on.
At the sound of that clear, bell-like voice Morse lifted his head to listen better. The constable answered the call. Two riders came into the light. One was a girl, the other a slim, straight young Indian in deerskin shirt and trousers. The girl swung from the saddle and came forward to the camp-fire. The companion of her ride shadowed her. Beresford and his prisoner advanced from the darkness.
The guests departed with the greatest reluctance, having given Dawson a half-sovereign for waiting up to lock the door. Mrs. Beresford said that it seemed unendurable to leave matters in such an unfinished condition, and her son promised to come very early next morning for the latest bulletins. "I leave all the romances in your hands," he whispered to me; "do let them turn out happily, do!"
"Some blight has been at work in our Foreign Office for years," said the Quarterly Review, "steadily undermining our mastery of the sea." "The fleet is not allowed to act," cried Lord Charles Beresford in Parliament; the Foreign Office was constantly interfering with its operations.
"Shall we come home again from the other countries?" asked Billy. "Of course, sonny! The little Beresfords must come back and grow up with their own country." "Am I a little Beresford, mother?" asked Francie, looking wistfully at her brother as belonging to the superior sex and the eldest besides. "Certainly." "And is the Sally-baby one too?" Himself laughed unrestrainedly at this.
Greville, in his "Memoirs," says that, "twenty ruffians of the Carleton Club" had given a dinner to Major Beresford, who had been charged with bribery at the Derby election and had escaped with only a censure, and that "after dinner, when they were drunk, they went up stairs and finding Mr. Gladstone alone in the drawing-room, some of them proposed to throw him out of the window.
As soon as Beresford and Morse had disposed of their prisoner and shaken off their exuberant friends, they reported to the Inspector. He sat at a desk and listened dryly to their story. Not till they had finished did he make any comment. "You'll have a week's furlough to recuperate, Constable Beresford. After that report to the Writing-on-Stone detachment for orders.
'I don't know, Miss, said the man, who knew much less about Singing Sal's ways than did Miss Anne Beresford. 'Mayhap the concert didn't come off, along of the snow. Nan again thanked him, and continued on her way eastward. She was thinking. Somehow she had quite forgotten about the church.
Sometimes this expedient failed, as when Commodore Beresford, who was blockading the Delaware, called upon the people of Dover to supply him at once with "twenty-five large bullocks and a proportionate quantity of vegetables and hay."
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