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"He can stay here if he likes," said Dame Bloomfield; "but you know, Giles, we are forced to work hard for what food we have, and I am sure we cannot afford to maintain Master Charles." "Then," said Giles, "he shall have my supper to-night: he wants it more than I do, for he has had no food all day."
The "Skyrockets" had barely the patience to hear him out, and the moment he had done, Parson started to his feet, and shouted, "Mr Chairman and gentlemen, I beg to move an amendment " Here Bloomfield, whom the sight of the notice-paper had prepared for what was coming, interposed, "When I am ready for the honourable member I will call on him. The motion is not yet seconded." "No, no!
While abroad, I had a dozen proposals " "Proposals!" exclaimed Mrs. Bloomfield, holding up both hands, and shaking her head incredulously. "Proposals! Why not, ma'am? am I more than fifty? am I not reasonably youthful for that period of life, and have I not six or eight thousand a year " "Eighteen, or you are much scandalized."
While he was lighting, I said: "Yes I am an American." "I knew it I can always tell them. What ship did you come over in?" "We came in the BATAVIA Cunard, you know. What kind of passage did you have?" "Tolerably rough." "So did we. Captain said he'd hardly ever seen it rougher. Where are you from?" "New England." "So'm I. I'm from New Bloomfield. Anybody with you?" "Yes a friend."
Frank was right in believing the game would bring out an astonishing number of spectators. That afternoon all roads seemed to lead to Bloomfield. With the opening of the gates an hour before the time for the game to begin, a stream of spectators commenced pouring on Farnham Field. This stream grew steadily in volume.
Bloomfield assured me she was a remarkably gentle child, and required encouragement: she had not learned anything yet; but in a few days, she would be four years old, and then she might take her first lesson in the alphabet, and be promoted to the schoolroom.
"Not he," said Bloomfield. "I heard him say once he pitied Wyndham all the bother he had, especially when he was wanting to stew for the exams." "Has any one seen Riddell lately?" asked Game. "It wouldn't be a bad thing for some of us to see him, and put it to him, that the school would go to the dogs to a dead certainty if he was captain."
"You're joking surely," said he; "you usen't to mind the extra feeds now and then." "If I shirked my duty once it's no reason I should do it for ever. Go back, do you hear? at once." "What, won't you let us go this time?" said Wibberly, quite bewildered by this unexpected sternness on the part of his old patron. "Do you hear what I say?" thundered Bloomfield.
He'd have to cram up the Caesar from Telson's crib somehow, only the nuisance was Bloomfield had fixed on this particular morning for a turn on the river with Game, and Parson would of course have to steer for them. Just his luck again!
Cesar A. Rodney, Attorney General of the United States; Hon. James A. Bayard, United States' Senator, from Delaware; Governor Bloomfield, of New-Jersey; Hon. Wm. Rawle, the late venerable head of the Philadelphia bar; Dr. Caspar Wistar, of Philadelphia; Messrs. Foster and Tillinghast, of Rhode Island; Messrs. Ridgely, Buchanan, and Wilkinson, of Maryland; and Messrs.
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