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Perhaps by and by those two fellow get mad with me some day, and tell man-o'-war I bin kill three white man and one white woman." "Banderah," and Bilker slapped him on the shoulder, "you're a damned smart fellow! There's no mistake about that. Now look here, I want you to get another thousand sovereigns the thousand I am going to give to Burrowes and Peter.
You will wonder why I have not mentioned this to you, but the fact is and I hope you'll appreciate my frankness I did not think of the O.S.G. till this morning. Of course they may refuse to have me. But I shall present myself without a preliminary letter, and I hope to persuade Father Burrowes to have me on probation. If he once does that, I'm sure that I shall satisfy him.
'Oh, then he minds so much that one can't do it, you know. 'What, does he punish you ? 'N no he never licks any of us now but he is so horridly sorry and it bothers him so, said Lance. 'Here's old Froggatt's, he concluded, stopping at the glass door. Burrowes, that's Redstone; Felix is out there, getting out the sermon paper for that fat one, and that's old Froggy himself, bowing away.
The treasurer reported that he had been informed by the chairman, that the captain of the Albion merchant ship, trading to the Bay of Honduras, had picked up at sea from a Spanish ship, which had been wrecked, two black men, one named Henry Martin Burrowes, a free native of Antigua, who had served in the royal navy, and the other named Antonio Berrat, a Spanish Negro; that the said captain detained these men on board his ship, then lying in the river Thames, against their will; and that he would not give them up.
It struck him as slightly ludicrous that a few young novices and postulants should represent the venerable choir-monks whom one pictured at such a ceremony from one's reading of the Rule of St. Benedict. Moreover, Father Burrowes never presented himself to Mark's imagination as an authentic abbot. Nor indeed was he such.
"I call it my Order because I set them up here with thirty acres of uncleared copse. It gives the Tommies something to do when they come over here on furlough from Aldershot. You've never met Burrowes, I hear." Mark thought that Sir Charles for a busy man had managed to learn a great deal about an unimportant person like himself. "Will Father Burrowes be here soon?" Mark inquired.
I will write you again when I have seen Father Burrowes. For the moment I'm inclined to think that Malford is rather playing at being monks; but as I said, the bigwigs are all away. Brother Dunstan is a delightful fellow, yet I shouldn't imagine that he would make a successful abbot for long.
He took with him the oblate's cassock; but he left behind the harmonium, which his father kicked to pieces in rage at not being able to kick his son. Burrowes worked as a curate in a dismal lakeside town in Ontario, consoling himself with dreams of monasticism and chivalry, and gaining a reputation as a preacher.
He had breakfasted early, and if he did not eat right speedily it seemed to him that dissolution would set in. "Whazzat?" said Mr. Burrowes feebly. "It took him fifteen rounds to get a referee's decision over Cyclone Mullins," said Sally severely, "and K-leg Binns..." Mr. Burrowes rallies. "You ain't got it right" he protested. "Say, you mustn't believe what you see in the papers.
We spent three days at Easter at the Deepdene; the company there were Mr. C. Moore, Mr. Philip Henry Hope, Mr. and Miss Burrowes, Mr. Harness, Lord Fincastle, Lady Clare, and Lady Isabella Fitzgibbon, and Lord Archibald Hamilton. Deepdene is beautiful at this time of the year the hawthorn hedges, the tender green of the larch and the sycamore in full leaf. To MRS. EDGEWORTH.
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