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He set off to fetch you all to Corfe Castle his own proposition. I waited an hour and a half then I took the pony to see after you and lo! there he is, sitting quite at his ease. Oh, Duke Duke!" She shook her riding-whip at him twice before she disturbed him from his book. "Eh, Missus what do'ee want, my child?" "Want? Don't you see what a passion we're all in? Abuse him, Anne Agatha Nathanael!
Crutchleigh stayed her step upon the stairs abruptly, and turned, with a look of fierce surprise upon her lean, white-headed lord, arresting thereby the upward march of Corfe Crutchleigh, Esq., the hope of his house, who was pulling on his gloves, with his eldest spinster sister on his lank arm. 'There appears to be a concert going on; we came here to a ball. Had you not better enquire, Mr.
But, eventually, it was decided that it was unwise not to interfere with a place that was notoriously a Royalist possession, and it was decided to capture it. The day fixed for the event was the first of May. On that day it was the custom of the gentlemen of Corfe Castle to hunt a stag on the island, and any one who liked to do so might participate in the sport.
Oh, I didn't mean that "alas"! Consider it erased; and the other silly things I wrote you the other night, please. They're all so useless. There were loads of interesting prisoners in Corfe Castle, at one time or another, knights from France, and fair ladies, the fairest of all, the beautiful "Damsel of Brittany," who had claims to the English crown.
Beaves Urmsing grew courtly of the olden time. He spied Colonel Corfe anew, and 'Donkey! rose to split the roar at his mouth, and full of his anecdote, he pursued some congenial acquaintances, crying to his host: 'Wednesday, mind! eh? by George, your friend's gizzarded me for the day!
Nor did the time hang heavy on my hands, for I found some old books in the Bugle, and among them several to my taste, especially a History of Corfe Castle, which set forth how there was a secret passage from the ruins to some of the old marble quarries, and perhaps to that very one that sheltered us. Elzevir was out most of the day, so that I saw him only at breakfast and supper.
The boy's reign however was troubled by strife between the monastic party and their opponents till in 979 the quarrel was cut short by his murder at Corfe, and with the accession of Æthelred, the power of Dunstan made way for that of ealdorman Æthelwine and the queen-mother.
The Bankes family, who still own Corfe, must be proud of that Lady Bankes, their ancestress, who held the castle. And isn't it nice, the Bankes still have the old keys, where they live, at Kingston Lacy? You like Thomas Hardy's "Hand of Ethelberta" next to "Far from the Madding Crowd." Well, Coomb Castle in that book is really Corfe Castle. I told you we were in Hardy country.
Who are those ladies holding a Court, where Mr. Radnor is? 'Lady Carmine, Lady Swanage if it is your wish? interposed the colonel. She dealt him a forgiving smile. 'And that pleasant-looking old gentleman? Colonel Corfe drew-up. Fenellan said: 'Are we veterans at forty or so? 'Well, it 's the romance, perhaps! She raised her shoulders.
The effect of the conversation was that Harry came home and astounded Milly by telling her what Louis Lewis had authorised him to say. There were conferences between Leonora and Milly and Mr. Cecil Corfe, a journey to Manchester, hesitations, excitations, thrills, and in the end an arrangement.
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