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Queen Elizabeth's economy was remarkable; and in some instances seemed to border on avarice. * Birch's Negot. p. 21. Strype, vol. iv. p.. 351. * Strype, vol. iv. p. 215. There is a curious letter of the queen's written to a bishop of Ely, and preserved in the register of that see.
Surely enough, although in the hurry she had not noticed it before, they were all in travelling dress. She had known they had meant to go as far as the city station with her; she saw now that they were fully equipped for the journey. And Washington was nearly twenty hours away! "You dear people!" murmured Evelyn, and rather blindly cast herself into Mrs. Birch's outstretched arms.
* Camden, p. 577. Birch's Negot. p. 15. Bacon, vol. iv. p. 381. Camden, p. 582. * Camden, p. 578. Next campaign, the French king, who had long carried on hostilities with Philip, was at last provoked, by the taking of Chatelet and Dourlens, and the attack of Cambray, to declare war against that monarch.
* Birch's Memoirs, vol. ii. p. 448. Winwood, vol. i. p. 140.
Indeed, I think there's as much fish as would serve double the number and I'm sure you look as if you had your soup "on sale or return," as we say in the magazine line. Mr. J. Haw! haw! haw! werry good, Mr. Spiers. I owe you one. Not bad soup though had it from Birch's. Let me send you some; and pray lay into it, or I shall think you don't like it. Mr.
They were not pursued by the enemy, and finding at the mouth of the river sixty ships laden with naval stores, they seized them as lawful prize; though they belonged to the Hanse Towns, a neutral power. They sailed thence to Vigo, which they took and burned; and having ravaged the country around, they set sail and arrived in England. * Birch's Memoirs, vol. i. p. 61.
Doctor Birch's, Market Rodborough, if you read this, will you please send me a line, and let me know what was the joke Mr. Merryman made about having his dinner? YOU remember well enough. But do I want to know? Suppose a boy takes a favorite, long-cherished lump of cake out of his pocket, and offers you a bite? Merci! The fact is, I DON'T care much about knowing that joke of Mr. Merryman's.
As the sequel to the war and Mr. Birch's murder, Ismail, who had retained authority over a part of Perak, was banished to Johore; Abdullah, the Sultan, and the Mentri of Larut, who was designated as an "intriguing character," were exiled to the Seychelles, and the Rajah Muda Yusuf, a prince who, by all accounts, was regarded as exceedingly obnoxious, was elevated to the regency, Perak at the same time passing virtually under our rule.
While describing the life and surroundings of Raymond, Louis, and Agnes at Viteau at the Castle of De Barran, or in the woods among the Cotereaux, he gives a picture of France in the age of chivalry, and tells, at the same time, a romantic and absorbing story of adventure and knightly daring. Mr. Birch's spirited illustrations add much to the attraction of the book. Illustrated.
And where indeed were there such others? Even town-bred Fred, who had feasted on Parisian bonbons, and made himself ill by eating strange fruits off Christmas-trees, owned to the purity and delectability of old Mrs Birch's "butterscotch;" while, as to the brown lemon stick, it was beyond praise.
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