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The library of Mannering Hall as Sir Henry Chicksands entered it presented a curious spectacle. It was a long, barn-like room, partly lined with books, and partly with glass cases, in which Greek vases, Tanagra figures, and other Greek and Etruscan antiquities, all carefully marked and labelled, were displayed.
In 1649 Sir Peter, finding the promises of reward made by the Prince to be as sincere as those of his father, returned to England, and probably through the intervention of his father-in-law, who was a strict Parliament man, his house and a portion of his estates at Chicksands were restored to him.
'Ca, c'est l'amour! she said to herself, 'assurément c'est l'amour! And when Pamela came down again, radiant as a young seraph, and ready to kiss the apple-red cheek of the Frenchwoman the rarest concession! Madame Guérin did not need to be told that Arthur Chicksands was safe and likely to be sound. But the Frenchwoman's inference was premature.
Levasseur Sir Henry Chicksands. The man on the floor looked up carelessly, just acknowledging Sir Henry's slight inclination. Sir Henry's inner mind decided against him at once instinctively.
The Earl of Danby was the Governor of Guernsey, and Sir Peter was his lieutenant until 1643, when the Earl died, and Sir Peter was made full Governor. It would be in 1643 that the siege of Castle Cornet began, the same year in which the rents of the Chicksands estate were assigned away from their rightful owner to one Mr.
In earnest now, go as soon as you can, 'twill be the better, I think, who am your faithful friend. Letter 50. Wrest, in Bedfordshire, where Dorothy met her importunate lover, was the seat of Anthony Grey, Earl of Kent. There is said to be a picture there of Sir William Temple, a copy of Lely's picture. Wrest Park is only a few miles from Chicksands.
Then one evening, early in the second week in March, a telegram reached Aubrey Mannering at Aldershot. He rushed up to town, and went first to the War Office, where Chicksands was at work. Chicksands sprang up to meet him. 'You've heard? I've just got this. I made his Colonel promise to wire me if He pointed to an open telegram on his table: "Desmond badly hit in raid last night.
Pamela in love with Arthur Chicksands! And she remembered that a faint idea of it had once crossed her mind, only to be entirely dismissed and forgotten. 'But I ought to have seen I ought to have known! Am I really a vampire?
'Ah, there's the book! And diving to the floor for a hat and a book lying beside it, he made off, lighting a cigarette, with a laughing backward glance towards the Squire and his companion. 'Well, now, what is it? said Mannering, throwing himself with an air of resignation into a low arm-chair, and taking out a pipe. 'Won't you smoke, Chicksands? 'Thank you, I've had my morning's allowance.
When an editor is in the pleasant position of being able to retain an historian of the eminence of Macaulay to write a large portion of his introduction, it would ill become him to alter and correct his statements wherever there was a petty inaccuracy; still it is necessary to say, once for all, that there are occasional errors in the passage, as where Macaulay mentions that Chicksands is no longer the property of the Osbornes, though happily not one of these errors is in itself important.
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