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She had rather been at home with her books, or preparing lessons to send to her school at Brogden; but in company she could not bear not to reign supreme, and put forth every power to maintain her place, though in her grand, careless, indifferent manner, and when it was over, hating and despising her very success.
'He said he had been into papa's room, said Johnnie, 'and had seen baby. He is a very good-natured gentleman. Don't you like him, Aunt Theodora? 'And oh! aunt, he asked me whether we ever went to Brogden; and when he heard that we had been at the parsonage, he said he lived there when he was a little boy, and our nursery was his; chattered on Helen.
The other affair was so long ago, and who could help longing to have such minstrel-love rewarded? That postscript did not go on to Brogden, though Annette's betrayal of confidence had been suffered to meet the eye of the high-souled maiden. The accounts of Lord St. Erme continued to improve, though his recovery was but slow.
Theodora had fixed many hopes on her cousin's interview with Arthur, but they only talked of Brogden news; however, she heard afterwards that Hugh was well satisfied with what he had seen of him, and that he thought Percy's view the safest. It was better to force nothing upon him.
Having had tea, I returned to Query Camp by lorry most of the way where I arrived at 6.30 p.m." "Up 9 a.m. At 10 it poured with rain and prevented Church parade. At 10.30 Allen and I set off with Sergeant Baldwin, Sergeant Donovan, Sergeant Brogden, and a few other N.C.O.'s and runners, to reconnoitre a track. We went on a miniature train as far as Vlamertinghe. Then we walked across the fields.
"Corporal Livesey told me that Sergeant Brogden was wounded in the arm, Sergeant Stokes killed, and Corporal Chamley wounded. We saw some horrible sights all the way along. We were joined by more prisoners as we went down. German prisoners have only to be told which way to go and they go. They are quite sociable people too many of them bright-eyed boys of seventeen and eighteen.
'She is a graceful young thing, and Georgina and I will call on her in London. Of course they will be settled there. 'I don't know, said Theodora. 'A notion has been started of his leaving the Guards, and their coming to live at the cottage at Brogden. 'Indeed! exclaimed Miss Gardner. 'It is not settled, so don't mention it. I doubt how it would answer to set Arthur down with nothing to do.
William Johnston, then addressed the multitude, extending to them a cordial welcome in behalf of the citizens and authorities of Charlotte; after which Governor Brogden was introduced, and spoke substantially as follows: He said the principles of liberty enunciated by the fathers of the revolution, one hundred years ago, upon the spot he then occupied would live throughout all time.
It was that cold late summer, and her funeral was in the middle of a hail-storm, horridly chilly. 'Where was she buried? 'At Brogden. Old Mr. Fotheringham was buried there, and she was brought there. I came home for it. What a day it was the hailstones standing on the grass, and I shall never forget poor John's look all shivering and shrunk up together. He shivered at the bare remembrance.
The Liberals chose as their candidate one Brogden, who had been unseated for bribery at Yarmouth, a fact in his history which did much to enliven trade amongst the local fishmongers, the bloater becoming, as it were, the Tory ensign in all processions and in all public meetings at which the Liberal candidate addressed his future constituents.
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