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On his return to Ireland he was appointed parish priest of Bray. He was an eloquent preacher, and author of several works on the Papacy. A solicitor of Banbridge, and one of the first Irish Protestants of note to join the Repeal Association. From the death of Davis until the end of 1847 he was the chief writer of the Nation newspaper.
The sound of feet was heard on the stairs, then a hurrying along the narrow passage; a hand was on the door, but the key had been prudently turned on the inside. With a quick motion, Mrs. Bray waved her hand toward the adjoining chamber. Mrs. Dinneford did not hesitate, but glided in noiselessly, shutting and locking the door behind her. "Pinky Swett!" exclaimed Mrs.
I parted with him, half-an-hour ago, on Hawk's Hill, and he was then on his way to the deer-pen at Bray Wood." "If I see his granddaughter Mabel, it will suffice," rejoined the cardinal. "I am told she is a comely damsel. Is it so?" "I am but an indifferent judge of beauty," replied Fenwolf moodily.
The two ministers, Guido de Bray and Peregrine de la Grange, together with the son of Herlin, effected their escape by the water-gate. Having taken refuge in a tavern at Saint Arnaud, they were observed, as they sat at supper, by a peasant, who forthwith ran off to the mayor of the borough with the intelligence that some individuals, who looked like fugitives, had arrived at Saint Arnaud.
"You think you broke me, do you?" he demanded insolently as Rimrock looked up from his count. "You can see for yourself," answered Rimrock contentedly, and held out his well-filled hat. "You're a piker!" yelled Bray. "You don't dare to come back at me. I'll play you one turn win or lose for your pile!"
As soon as Father de Bray became acquainted with her, he discovered in her one of those wonders which are wrought from time to time by grace for the confusion of the world, and set himself to second the designs of Heaven concerning this privileged soul.
'Heed them not, seneschal, said the Count of Soissons, who, in the midst of peril, retained all the gaiety of soul which distinguished the French chevaliers from the thoughtful Saxon, and the haughty and somewhat grim Norman. 'Heed them not. Let this rascal canaille bawl and bray as they please. By St. Denis, you and I will live to talk of this day's exploits in the chambers of our ladies.
I thought there was a distinct note of hostility in his voice. "Checkmate, Inspector!" he said. Bray made no reply. He sat there staring up at the colonel, his face turned to stone. "The scarab pin," went on Hughes, "is not yet forthcoming. We are tied for honors, my friend. You have your confession, but I have one to match it." "All this is beyond me," snapped Bray.
She answered, he had been with her above an hour that very morning. 'In what temper of mind was he? 'Extremely exasperated. 'Not at you? 'Oh no: at Lord Bray: at your persecutors: at the world in general. He says you are not fit to live in it: you are no match for it. You have been persuading him, contrary to all history and experience, that men are capable of virtue and happiness.
"Did he mean the sticks with which he promised to bray you like a green hide?" I inquired innocently. "I think so, Macumazahn I think so, for certainly he owes me nothing else. And the worst of it is that, there at Panda's kraal, he has grown like a pumpkin on a dung heap great, great!"
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