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"I thought you said you knew no one in these parts, Mr. Spring?" "Just one kind friend, Mr. Cordery, and he has sent his gig for me. It's likely that I will take the night coach to town. But I'll look in after an hour or two and have a dish of tea with you." Outside the mulberry servant was sitting behind a fine black horse in a phaeton, which had two seats in front and two behind.
Very inferior stones, quite small and worthless, produced at immense cost, and even then not worth looking at. I'm an old bird, you know, Cordery; not to be caught with chaff. Tell me a better one!" Sir Adolphus produced a small cut gem from his pocket. "How's that for the first water?" he inquired, passing it across, with a broad smile, to the sceptic.
Farmer Cordery had six grown sons Jonathan, George, William, Increase, Homer, and Lemuel the eldest eight-and-twenty, the youngest sixteen. All were strapping fellows, and each as a matter of course had fallen over head and ears in love with Ruth. They were good lads and knew it to be hopeless. She had stepped into their home as a goddess from a distant star, to abide with them for a while.
Mony better and few waur, Fal de ral," etc. "I am much obliged to Mr. Cordery for his attentions," said the Lord Keeper; "and pray who has had the charge of you while I was away, Mr. Henry?" "Norman and Bob Wilson, forbye my own self." "A groom and a gamekeeper, and your own silly self proper guardians for a young advocate!
I am vastly honoured to have you under my roof! Cordery is my name, sir, landlord of this old-fashioned inn. I thought that my eyes could not deceive me. I am a patron of the ring, sir, in my own humble way, and was present at Moulsey in September last, when you beat Jack Stringer of Rawcliffe. A very fine fight, sir, and very handsomely fought, if I may make bold to say so.
23rd. Up, and at the office busy all the morning. At noon dined alone, my wife and mother being gone by invitation to dine with my mother's old servant Mr. Cordery, who made them very welcome. So to Mr. Povy's, where after a little discourse about his business I home again, and late at the office busy.
He knew they would come soon; and he watched and waited. But, of course, to draw him on he pretended to be interested. While we were all in this attitude of mind, attending on Providence and Colonel Clay, we happened to walk down by the shore one day, in the opposite direction from the Seamew's island. Suddenly we came upon the Professor linked arm-in-arm with Sir Adolphus Cordery!
Any one can see with half an eye that you are trained to a hair. I'd take it very kindly if you would give me the office." It crossed Spring's mind that if he were frank with the landlord it was more than likely that he would receive more information than he could give. He was a man of his word, however, and he remembered his promise to his employer. "Just a quiet day in the country, Mr. Cordery.
"We are keeping the matter a profound secret, at Schleiermacher's own request," Cordery answered, more seriously. "Which is why," Charles said, in his severest tone, "you bawled it out at the very top of your voice in Piccadilly!"
Cordery, who do invite them before my father goes into the country, and thither I should have gone too but that I am sent for to the Privy Seal, and there I found a thing of my Lord Chancellor's
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