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The deeply serious manner in which Corrie said this so impressed and solemnized the child, that she related, word for word, the brief conversation she had had with her father, and all that she had heard of the previous converse between him and Henry.
Moilliet took us in the evening to a lecture on poetry, by Campbell, who has been invited by a Philosophical Society of Birmingham gentlemen to give lectures; they give tickets to their friends. Mr. Corrie, one of the heads of this society, was proud to introduce us. Excellent room, with gas spouting from tubes below the gallery. Lecture good enough. Mr.
The prospect was that these vessels would have to return to Europe empty as they had come, and the house of Corrie & Company be involved thereby in ruin. It was then that John Gladstone rose to the emergency of the occasion, and by his enterprise and energy saved himself and partners from financial failure, to the great surprise and admiration of the merchants of Liverpool.
We had thought first of pushing across the glen, over the river, through Corrie Ghuibhasan, and into the Black Mount; but the journey in a night like what was now fallen was not to be attempted. On the hills beyond the river the dog-fox barked with constancy, his vixen screeching like a child signs of storm that no one dare gainsay.
In the sea-cliff about five miles north of Corrie, near the village of Laggan, strata of volcanic ash occur, forming a solid rock cemented by carbonate of lime and enveloping trunks of trees, determined by Mr. Binney to belong to the genera Sigillaria and Lepidodendron.
"Go at him agin," cried Poopy, recommencing her work on the right arm with so much energy that it seemed marvelous how she escaped skinning that limb from fingers to shoulder. Poor Alice did her best, but her soft little hands had not much effect on the huge mass of brown flesh they manipulated. "There he comes again!" shouted Corrie.
"I'll have to convince you then," said Gascoyne, suddenly catching the boy in his arms, and bearing him swiftly away from the spot. Corrie struggled like a hero, as he was.
He must have changed his intention; or, perhaps, he came this way to throw the people who were chasing them off the scent." Corrie was right.
He looked at him in surprise for a few seconds, then nodded his head, and said, "Fire away!" "You know that Gascoyne is in prison!" said Corrie. "In course I does. That's one rascally pirate less on the seas, anyhow." "He's not so bad as you think, Dick." "Whew!" whistled the boatswain. "You're a friend of his, are ye?" "No; not a friend, but neither am I an enemy.
"Ah! you villain, you rascally pirate. I know you; I " The pipe was gently squeezed at this point, and the sentence abruptly cut short. "Come, boy, you must not speak so loud. Enemies are near. If you don't behave I'll have to throttle you. I have come from Sandy Cove with a party to save you and your friends." Corrie did not believe a word of this.
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