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"Well, Hazeldean, it is time he should know something about the county." "Ay, and history too," said Mrs. Dale, malevolently, for the little temper was by no means blown over. FRANK. "I'll not hurt it, I assure you, sir. But I'm very much interested just at present." "You've got hold of that passage about Botham Hall, page 706, eh?" FRANK. "No; I was trying to make out how far it is to Mr.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - My Novel — Complete

But my father, who was a man of the world, looking Botham firmly in the face said, "I assure you, Sir, that your proposition staggers me a little. Your offer is most polite and very generous; but, as I am not in the habit of receiving such liberality from strangers, how am I to account for the pressing manner in which you have offered it?

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1

But as I could not learn from my father that she had in any way encouraged the hopes of Botham, I felt, after a little reflection, no fears for the result, and without farther consideration, resolutely made up my mind to be his rival. This furnishes a striking example how liable young persons, possessing minds of a sanguine nature, are to be talked into any thing.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1

"It was a dull, drizzly Indian-inky day, all the way on the railroad to Keighley, which is a rising wool-manufacturing town, lying in a hollow between hills not a pretty hollow, but more what the Yorkshire people call a 'bottom, or 'botham. I left Keighley in a car for Haworth, four miles off four tough, steep, scrambling miles, the road winding between the wavelike hills that rose and fell on every side of the horizon, with a long illimitable sinuous look, as if they were a part of the line of the Great Serpent, which the Norse legend says girdles the world.

Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell - Life of Charlotte Bronte — Volume 2

Botham and Sister Anna looked somewhat disapprovingly upon so much literary work for the mistress of a household, since we find Mary writing in eager defence of her chosen calling. 'I want to make thee, and more particularly dear mother, see, she explains, 'that I am not out of my line of duty in devoting myself so much to literary occupation. Just lately things were sadly against us.

George Paston - Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century

Botham, that a number of Negroes, who had been imported there in the same disproportion of the sexes as in West Indian cargoes, and who lived under the same disadvantages, as in the islands, of promiscuous intercourse and general prostitution, began, after they had been settled a short time, annually to increase. But to return to the West Indies.

Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade, by the British Parliament (1839)

Botham, that a number of Negros, who had been imported there in the same disproportion of the sexes as in West India cargoes, and who lived under the same disadvantages, as in the Islands, of promiscuous intercourse and general prostitution, began, after they had been settled a short time, annually to increase. But to return to the West Indies. A slave-ship had been many years ago wrecked near St.

Thomas Clarkson - The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808): Volume II

My father had ridden to London, and taken his friend Coward with him as a companion. On their return, having started early on a Sunday morning, they rode, as was my father's custom, twenty miles before breakfast, which brought them to the Windmill, at Salt Hill. They rode into the yard, and having called for the hostler, the landlord, Mr. Botham, came up to them and made his bow.

Henry Hunt - Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 1

"Well, Hazeldean, it is time he should know something about the county." "Ay, and history too," said Mrs. Dale, malevolently, for the little temper was by no means blown over. FRANK. "I'll not hurt it, I assure you, sir. But I'm very much interested just at present." "You've got hold of that passage about Botham Hall, page 706, eh?" FRANK. "No; I was trying to make out how far it is to Mr.

Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton - My Novel — Volume 01

Thus the renter knew with certainty what every pecul would cost him, and he incurred no unnecessary expense; for, when the crop was over, the task-men returned home. By dividing the labour in this manner, it was better and cheaper done." Mr. Botham detailed next the improved method of making sugar in Batavia, which we have not room to insert here.

Thomas Clarkson - Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies : With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure.