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"But do you believe that Byam Warner will be content to settle down for the rest of his mortal life to an existence of mere domestic happiness?" "By no means. He delights in literature, and although he is well read, there are tomes which not even a Bacon could master in one lifetime. Moreover, he should buy back his cane fields.
"Even if their mammas dare not refuse you, I doubt if the girls brave the wrath of their gallants, who would never countenance their meeting such a reprobate as Byam Warner " "You forget the despotism of curiosity." "Well, they might gratify that by meeting him once, but they will sound the beaux first. What do you suppose they come here for?
All aristocratic Nevis were invited to contribute their presence and the price of a ticket, and the performance would end with a dance that should outlast the night. Nevis was in a great flutter of excitement, partly because of the promised ball, for which the military band of St. Kitts was engaged, partly because but a favoured few, and years ago, had heard Byam Warner read.
They were all delighted about it, and such busy men as Sir Laurence Alma-Tadema, Mr. Abbey, Mr. Byam Shaw, Mr. Walter Crane, Mr. Bernard Partridge, Mr. James Pryde, Mr. Orpen, and Mr. William Nicholson all gave some of their work to me. Mr. Sargent was asked if he would allow the first Lady Macbeth study to be reproduced.
The last sweet note seemed to drift out over the water, and then Anne heard another sound, the deep low murmur of the Caribbean Sea. Her mind swung to Byam Warner, to the extraordinary poem which ten years ago had made his fame and interpreted this unceasing melancholy of the sea's chant into a dirge over the buried continent and its fate.
"Profession," said Chandos, in reply to Carew's last remark; "gad, your ancient friend is lucky to have found one in these days. They tell me that no young gentleman can now get his living without answering questions, writing down things, drawing maps, and passing What the deuce do they call them?" "Hanged if I know," said the Squire. "Ask Byam; he knows every thing." "I say, Mr.
Their delay caused us not a little discomfort, because, though we had taken the four English ships, we knew that Sir Byam Martin's iron-cased squadron, with the "Warrior," the "Impregnable," the "Sanconiathon," and the "Berosus," were cruising in the neighborhood, and might prove too much for us.
In giving evidence before a Parliamentary committee about fifty years ago, Admiral Sir T. Byam Martin, referring to the great increase of the fleet in 1793, said, 'It was the merchant service that enabled us to man some sixty ships of the line and double that number of frigates and smaller vessels. He added that we had been able to bring promptly together 'about 35,000 or 40,000 men of the mercantile marine. The requirements of the navy amounted, as stated by the admiral, to about 40,000 men; to be exact, 39,045.
Byam Warner would not be the first man to settle down in matrimony. But can you stand living your life on Nevis." "I should have wished to live here had I never met Byam Warner." "Oh well you are not to be pitied. I shall paint you while you are at the Grange, all in white only in a smarter gown in this setting, and with those blue butterflies circling about your head.
With a hot rush of blood to the head he almost hoped that the favour was nothing less and he might relieve his overcharged feelings by pitching Hunsdon out of the window. But nothing could have been so far from Hunsdon's well-regulated mind. He had come on a very different errand. "The truth is well, my dear Byam, you no doubt have seen how it is with me, long since. The state of my affections.
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