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She lives close by, and is occupied in soliciting compensation from the Government for any injury that was done her by the passage of the Duke of Cumberland's army. The mother herself is sick and and never leaves her bed; she sends her two eldest daughters to petition the Government, and they are the two young ladies you have just seen. They have not met with any success.
For the present we may turn to other varieties of the curiously swarming novel-production of these two last decades of the century, and especially of the very last. If Scott had not established Richard Cumberland's Henry in the fortress of the Ballantyne Novels, it would hardly be necessary to notice "Sir Fretful Plagiary's" contributions to the subject of our history.
"I can readily see that we may affect ourselves, but it seems hard to believe that we affect everybody," protested Kate, incredulously. "It is because we cannot realize the law of thought transference. I was reading just last week about that. An instance of Stuart C. Cumberland's mind-reading was cited. It was wonderful.
As Hexford drew near me again on our way to the head of the staircase, I summoned up courage to ask: "Have you heard anything from the Hill? Has the news of this tragedy been communicated to Miss Cumberland's family, and if so, how are they bearing this affliction?"
'The company in general were dressed with more brilliancy than at any rout I ever was at, as most of them were going to the Duchess of Cumberland's. Miss Burney herself was 'surrounded by strangers, all dressed superbly, and all looking saucily.... Dr. Johnson was standing near the fire, and environed with listeners. Mme. D'Arblay's Diary, ii. 179, 186, 190.
See ante, iii. 386. According to Dr. See ante, i. 153 'Hooke, says Dr. It was he who brought a Catholic priest to take Pope's confession on his death-bed. See Cumberland's Memoirs, i. 344. Mr. Thrale: 'Here, though poor Macleod had been left by his grandfather overwhelmed with debts, we had another exhibition of feudal hospitality.
Murder, rape, torture, held high carnival; men were hanged or shot on the slightest suspicion or on no suspicion; women were insulted, outraged, killed; even children were not safe from the blood-lust of Cumberland's murderers. The pacification of the Highlands was accomplished on much the same methods as were afterwards employed to bring about the pacification of Poland.
And because his thin, shadowy, grasping father was a man of much outward substance and burgess for the ancient borough, Jack was cornet in my Lord Brocton's newly raised regiment of dragoons, this day marching with other of the Duke of Cumberland's troops from Lichfield to Stafford.
Bankes told him he would not accept if he on consideration objected, but he was determined not to join any other Government. The Duke of Cumberland spoke of himself as having been ill-used by the Duke of Wellington. This was explained. The conference ended by the Duke of Cumberland's acquiescing entirely in Bankes's acceptance of office.
For to-night, Arthur Cumberland's position here is the position of a master." "I will respect it, sir, up to all reasonable bounds. I don't think he meditates giving any trouble. He's not at all impressed by our presence. All he seems to care about is what his sister may be led to say in her delirium." "That's how you look at it?" The coroner's tone was one of gloom.
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