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It was a matter of the utmost satisfaction to him that his uncle, Sir Lucius Chesney, of Priory Court in Sussex, cared but little for London, and seldom came up to town. For Sir Lucius was childless, elderly, and possessed of fifteen thousand pounds a year.
You invite them, and I'll take the responsibility." So it was settled, against Edith's instinct of propriety, and the dinner was made up by the addition of the elder Miss Chesney. And Jack did persuade Mrs. Blunt to accept. In fact, she had a little curiosity to see the man whose name was in the newspapers more prominently than that of the President. It was a bright thought to secure Mr. Mavick.
For the impression now forced itself upon me that poor Captain Chesney had committed an error of judgment in adhering to his determination to make for the Azores, after the breeze had sprung up from a direction which placed those islands almost dead to windward, and his only alternative of making for the Canaries appeared to be open to the same objection, although in a considerably lesser degree.
Captain Chesney seemed to be very reluctant, even now, to quit the neighbourhood of the burning ship; and therein I considered that he was displaying sound judgment, for the weather was still stark calm, and whatever movement we might make would have to be executed with the oars, which would soon result in greatly fatiguing the men without any commensurate advantage.
Chesney felt aggrieved at the repeated interruption, and closed his speech without giving the audience the benefit of his peroration. The Judge came next, and began with reminding his hearers that he was known as 'Satan Saunders. An account of the origin of the name followed, and was enjoyed even by those who had listened to the Judge's oratory before, and therefore knew the story.
"Lamb and Drummond looking for me? Ah, yes, I think I know what they want." "It's a queer business, isn't it? My uncle is mixed up in it Sir Lucius Chesney, you know." "Then he has told you " "Only a little. It's not my affair, and I would rather not speak about it. Can I tell Mr. Lamb that you will call upon him at five o'clock to-morrow afternoon or this afternoon, to be correct?
To me I confess and the view is also that of Chesney and Maurice this written order is simply an amplification in detail of the previous verbal order, which by instructing Grouchy "to discover the route taken by Bluecher" clearly evinced doubt in Napoleon's mind as to the Prussian line of retreat. Mr.
They do wait, however, with the perseverance of military tactics, and at last the bell rings again and the client in possession comes out of Mr. Tulkinghorn's room. The client is a handsome old lady, no other than Mrs. Rouncewell, housekeeper at Chesney Wold. She comes out of the sanctuary with a fair old-fashioned curtsy and softly shuts the door.
But it comes back from time to time; and so sure as there is sickness or death in the family, it will be heard then." "And disgrace, grandmother " says Watt. "Disgrace never comes to Chesney Wold," returns the housekeeper. Her grandson apologizes with "True. True." "That is the story. Whatever the sound is, it is a worrying sound," says Mrs.
For over the fence came the head coach, and big Chesney, and Captain Dutton, Story, the little quarter-back, and all the others, a long line of crimson-stockinged warriors, with Joel March, Briscom, Bedford, and the other substitutes flocking along in the tag end of the procession.
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