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Luzon surpasses all the other islands, not only in size, but in importance; and its fertility and other natural superiority well entitle it to be called, as it is by Crawfurd, "the most beautiful spot in the tropics." Many traces of recent upheavals betoken that the two portions were once separated and formed two distinct islands.
Accidents will happen; they are wilful things and insist upon keeping themselves in evidence. Imprimis, then, to get out of town. But where? "'Hoodman's Ledge, began Crawfurd, a little doubtfully, but I caught him up with joyful decision. "'The very thing, I said. 'I'll send a wire to the caretaker to-night, and we'll be off by Thursday. I invite you all for six weeks.
Promise me, upon your honors, this altercation ends here, or as sure as my name's Crawfurd, you shall both be placed under arrest, and the man who refuses to obey me shall be sent back to England." Before I well knew in what way to proceed, Mr.
A man of forty-five perhaps, clean-shaven, well set up, an inveterate globe-trotter, a prince among raconteurs, and the most astounding polyglot I have ever met. I myself have heard him talk Eskimo with one of Peary's natives, and he had collated some of his researches into Iranic-Turanian root-forms for the Philological Society. But let us go back to our walnuts. "Crawfurd picked up the thread.
"I must tell you, mother, though, of course, it cannot be in the circumstances he does not see it but there is no fatality to bind me to his views. Mr. Crawfurd of the Ewes sent for me this morning, and I went to him immediately; I could not tell what he might have to say to me." "Without consulting your mother, Harry?"
When I came to the end, Crawfurd threw himself into a chair and laughed till the very tears coursed down his bronzed features. "You don't say so, boy? You don't really tell me you said that? By Jove! I had rather have faced a platoon of musketry than have stood in your shoes! You did not wait for a reply, I think?" "No, faith, sir, that I did not!" "Do you suspect he knows you?"
"Well, how soon will he be about again?" "In a few weeks, if no fever sets in." "There's no objection to my seeing him? a few minutes only, I'll be cautious." So saying, and as it seemed to me, without waiting for a reply, the door was opened by an aide-de-camp, who, announcing General Crawfurd, closed it again, and withdrew.
Crawfurd, in his recent Mission to Hue, wished to visit the mausoleum of the late king; "but," says he, "we were politely informed that the king was always reluctant to permit the visits of strangers, whose presence," he said, "might 'trouble the repose of the spirits of his ancestors."
"Harry, I am horrified at you; it is a dishonour to your poor father's memory; it is shocking to think of it; and if you have been so lost to duty as to fall into so unnatural an entanglement, it is surely the least you owe to both parents to give it up." "Mother! I cannot see it as you do; my father fully exonerated Mr. Crawfurd you have told me so a hundred times.
From Baldi’s letter we learn that, in the device left by Gowrie at Padua, the figure pointing a sword at the crown was a negro, thus varying from the figure in Workman’s MS., and that in the illuminated copy emblazoned in 1597, and possessed in 1716 by Crawfurd. Next, we learn that Sir Robert Douglas had heard talk of this emblem in Scotland, before he left for Italy.
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