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Burgess's address book is that fellow Brockton. You're an old friend of his. He's got more money than he knows what to do with. He likes to play show business. And he thought that if you " Rising quickly, the girl went to the wardrobe, and, taking out her hat, picked up a pair of scissors, and proceeded to curl the feathers.
The fact that Burgess's next ball knocked middle and off stumps out of the ground saddened him somewhat; but this was the last tragedy that occurred.
Seizing, then, a bottle of Burgess's walnut catsup, I dyed my face and my hands, and, with the simple aid of a flask of Warren's jet, I made my hair and beard as black as ebony.
The M.C.C. opened with Joe and a man in an Oxford Authentic cap. The beginning of the game was quiet. Burgess's yorker was nearly too much for the latter in the first over, but he contrived to chop it away, and the pair gradually settled down. At twenty, Joe began to open his shoulders. Twenty became forty with disturbing swiftness, and Burgess tried a change of bowling.
The burgess's daughter was refining to an appreciation of the exquisite so rapidly that she could criticize patricians. My lord had never forgiven her for correcting him in his pronunciation of her name by marriage. Singular indeed; but men, even great men, men of title, are so, some of them, whom you could least suspect of their being so.
Two of them Hales and Cruickshank both of whom are thoroughly bad characters have chummed in with Tonkin and his lot; while Jenkins, with his wife and daughter, are in their own cabins in the steerage. Mrs Jenkins and her daughter, Patsy, have been busy acting as nurses to your wounded men, under Dr Burgess's instructions, ever since you came aboard us, and they are doing very well."
On the present occasion, the Federal loss in prisoners near Burgess's Mill and east of Richmond where General Grant had attacked at the same time to effect a diversion are put down by General Lee at eight hundred, whereas thirteen hundred and sixty-five were received at Richmond. Lee's dispatch of October 28th is here given, as a specimen of these brief military reports. October 28, 1864. Hon.
Such records as these give us a glimpse of the Christian soldier's life at once beautiful and pathetic. Such intercourse must have been of the sweetest character; and, far away from home and friends, they drew very near to God. For weeks from this time Mr. Burgess's letters are full of stories of conversion.
He had struck him hard the Englishman was down; when out of the smoke came a dark-grey figure, and threw herself right under the uplifted flashing sword. The burgess's arm stood arrested. Neither Austrians nor Anversois willingly harmed the Poor Clares. 'Leave him to me! said a low stern voice. 'He is mine enemy mine for many years. Those words were the last I heard.
Mr. Bixby had his eye on these airs. One day he said 'What is the height of that bank yonder, at Burgess's? 'How can I tell, sir. It is three-quarters of a mile away. 'Very poor eye very poor. Take the glass. I took the glass, and presently said 'I can't tell. I suppose that that bank is about a foot and a half high. 'Foot and a half! That's a six-foot bank.
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