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Updated: June 10, 2025
The war, and the causes of the war, had moved his nature, which was sincere and upright, profoundly; all the more perhaps because of a certain kindling and awakening of the whole man, which had come from his first sight of Nelly Cookson in the previous June, and from his growing friendship with her which he must not yet call love.
"Do you think I need go down?" "Oh, yes; come and have a try, or else it will excite suspicion. You would have to show at prayers directly afterwards, you know, so it will not make much difference. You have nothing to do with old Cookson between this and supper no exercise or anything?" "No, thank goodness!" "That's all right. You have a good hour for a nap, and your head will be better then.
Oh, I say, it was a bit hot very warm. Each successive phase is limned indelibly that's the sort of literary style I've got, if wanted on the tablets of my memory. I'd been up West, and who should I run across in Oxford Street but my old friend, Charlie Cookson. Very good company is Charlie Cookson. See him at a shilling hop at the Holborn: he's pretty much all there all the time.
Just about six o'clock, we run up to the Fallaba, the Move's predecessor in working the Ogowe, now a hulk, used as a depot by Hatton and Cookson. She is anchored at the entrance of a creek that runs through to the Fernan Vaz; some say it is six hours' run, others that it is eight hours for a canoe; all agree that there are plenty of mosquitoes.
Perceiving that he was in front of the whole Boer army, and knowing that he might expect reinforcements, Cookson decided to act upon the defensive. A position was rapidly taken up along the Brakspruit, and preparations made to resist the impending attack.
He hurried to the rescue, but the cessation of the firing and the reports of stragglers led him to the conclusion that Cookson had been annihilated. He reported to that effect to his brother, Lord Kitchener, and returned to camp. Next day he again went out, and found to his satisfaction that Cookson was still a military asset. Kekewich, meanwhile, was searching for Delarey elsewhere.
'DEAR MISS COOKSON, I am awfully sorry not to meet you to-night, and at the hospital to-morrow. But I am sent for to Bailleul. My only brother has been terribly wounded they think fatally in a bombing attack last night. I am going up at once there is no help for it. One of my colleagues, Dr. Vincent, will take you to the hospital and will tell me your opinion. In haste. Yours sincerely,
Milly's own private affairs in connection with a good-looking fellow, formerly a gardener at Bowness, now recently enlisted in one of the Border regiments had caused her to take a special interest in the information, and had perhaps led her to put a bunch of monthly roses on Mrs. Sarratt's dressing-table. Miss Cookson hadn't bothered herself about flowers.
MONTAGUE COOKSON. "The limitation of the number of the family is as much the duty of married persons as the observance of chastity is the duty of those that are unmarried." JOHN STUART MILL. "Every one has aright to live. We will suppose this granted. But no one has a right to bring children into life to be supported by other people.
'Something! echoed Mullins. 'What of Cecco? demanded Noodler. 'He's as dead as Jukes, said Hook shortly. His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth. All pirates are superstitious; and Cookson cried, 'They do say the surest sign a ship's accurst is when there's one on board more than can be accounted for.
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