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However, on reviving, he spoke as is thus attested," and he showed Herbert Bowater's slip of paper. "Mr. Charnock," said Mr. Moy, "without the slightest imputation on the intentions of yourself or of young Mr. Bowater, I put it to yourself and Captain Charnock Poynsett, whether you could go before a jury with no fuller attestation than you have in your hand. We know what Mr. Charnock and Mr.
In the new shuffling of partners, the elder Miss Bowater found herself close to Anne, and at once inquired warmly for Miles, with knowledge and interest in naval affairs derived from a sailor brother, Miles's chief friend and messmate in his training and earlier voyages.
Then Bindon can do it, or Jenny Bowater." "No! it is not time or trouble; but I do not think such a number of services desirable." "Indeed!" said he, looking amused. "Yes. An over number of services frequented by no one only brings the Church into contempt. I heard papa say so.
"Come, you understand how anxious I am about the boy." "Exactly." And they both laughed. "Is that all?" said Joanna Bowater. "Really and truly it is! Rose can manage him much better than I can."
Poynsett, "nor are Sir Harry's feelings very acute; but perhaps poor old Proudfoot ought to be spared, and there are considerations as to the Vivian family. Still, I don't see how to consent to Archie going into exile again with this stigma upon him. I am sure Raymond would not, and I do not think Mr. Bowater will."
I am glad to welcome you to our future house!" as she held out her hand to the Reverend Herbert Bowater, the junior curate, a deacon of a fortnight's standing, whose round open happy blue eyes, ruddy cheeks, merry lips, and curly light hair, did not seem in keeping with the rigidly straight collar and waistcoat, and the long black coat, at present plentifully streaked with green tree-moss, while his boots and trousers looked as if they had partaken of the mud-bath which his dogs had evidently been wallowing in.
Every home engagement was submitted to the elder lady with elaborate scrupulousness, almost like irony. Visitors in the house or invitations out of it, were welcome breaks, and the whirl of society which vaguely alarmed Joanna Bowater was a relief to the inhabitants of the Hall.
"Oh! she has always been like one of themselves, like a sister to them all." "I can't bear that sort of people." "What sort?" "Who worm themselves in." "Miss Bowater could have no occasion for worming. They must be quite on equal terms." "At any rate, she was only engaged to their poor relation." "What poor relation? Tell me! Who told you?" "Raymond.
Bowater had had a rheumatic fever in March, and continued so much of an invalid all the summer that Jenny seldom went far from home, only saw her brother on his weekly visits to the sick-room, and was, as Rosamond said, unlikely to become a temptation to the warm heart and eager tongue.
Bowater a big comely squire, the daughters both tall, one with an honest open face much like Herbert's, only with rather less youth and more intelligence, the other a bright dark glowing gipsy-faced young girl.
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