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Bermuda was renowned for its horsewhips, and her father had decided that she must go regularly to the riding-school. They seemed anxious now to give her, as preliminary to her introduction into society, not only such pleasures as horseback exercise, but intellectual enjoyment also.
"Monday morning we're off," Stern concluded, "and it will be the grandest lark two people ever had since time began! Built and stocked as the Adventure is, she's safe enough for anything from here to Europe. "Name the place you want to see, and it's yours. Florida? Bermuda? Mediterranean?
Butler, after various futile movements, was driven back again to his intrenched camp at Bermuda Hundred, where he was virtually besieged by Beauregard with 10,000 men, the rest of that general's force being sent up to reinforce Lee. In western Virginia, Breckenridge, with 3,500 men, was called upon to hold in check Sigel, with 15,000 men.
A mere lad," he added, reflectively, and went on: "Go down to Bermuda with a light heart, my boy, and enjoy yourself, it will do your church as much good as you. Play tennis and sail fall in love if you find the right girl, nothing makes a man over like that." North was putting out his hand. "And remember," Litterny added, "to keep an eye out for my thief.
It proved to be the British 74-gun ship of the line Poictiers, which, surmising what had taken place, bore down, took possession of both ships and carried them to Bermuda. This battle, one of the most fiercely contested of the war, naturally caused much rejoicing throughout the United States.
"I haven't done this the way I intended to at all," I confessed. "In books they get things all settled, and then kiss the lady." "Settled?" she inquired. "Oh, about getting married and that sort of thing," I explained with elaborate carelessness. "We we could go down to Bermuda or or Jamaica, say in December." She drew her hand away and faced me squarely. "I believe you are afraid!" she declared.
The mail and passenger liners went by at intervals the spreading beams of their lurid headlights giving us warning enough so that we could dive down and avoid being caught in their light. I prayed that one of their lights might pick us up, but none did. North of Bermuda, a division of the North Atlantic patrol circled over us. The ocean was calm. Argo dropped us to the surface.
Tom, do you feel plenty strong?" "Strong?" sniffed young Reade. "Humph! I'm ready, right now, to meet and vanquish the biggest Bermuda onion that you can produce." Dave had already started for the door. These three leaders of boydom in Gridley began to ply their shovels vigorously, starting from a point in the path already made to the spring.
Exile to Bermuda with other insurgents was not so attractive as the perils of a flight to the United States.
Berkeley's genius and his eloquent prose made tar-water as popular as both had made Bermuda some twenty years earlier. The later years of his life at Cloyne are tinged with melancholy.
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