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As the Duchess had said, it occupied the site of what had once about 1740 been the westerly end of a mews belonging to houses in Cureton Street, long since pulled down. The space filled by these houses was now occupied by one great mansion and its gardens.
He deals after the same fashion with the celebrated Porson. Cureton states that Porson "rejected" these letters "in the form in which they were put forth by Ussher and Vossius;" and declares that this piece of information was conveyed to himself by no less competent an authority than Bishop Kaye. Dr.
Towards five o'clock in the afternoon, Delafield found himself in Cureton Street. As he turned down Heribert Street he saw a cab in front of him. It stopped at Miss Le Breton's door, and Warkworth jumped out. The door was quickly opened to him, and he went in without having turned his eyes towards the man at the far corner of the street. Delafield paused irresolute.
Colonel Cureton, however, on seeing the 14th charge, exclaimed, "That is not the body of horse I meant to have been attacked!" and, riding to the front, received in his gallant breast a matchlock ball, which killed him on the spot. "Again the trumpets of the 14th sounded, and, overturning all who opposed them, onward in the direction of the island that gallant regiment took their course.
The sword-cut athwart this wiry old trooper's cheek he got in the hot melee of Ramhuggur, where a certain Brigadier Colin Campbell whom men knew afterwards as Lord Clyde, found it hard work to hold his own, and where gallant Cureton and the veteran William Havelock fell at the head of their light horsemen as they crashed into the heart of 4000 Sikhs.
Immediately after the appearance of the second edition of The Ancient Church, a copy of it was sent to the late Rev. W. Cureton, D.D., Canon of Westminster the well-known author of various publications relating to the Ignatian Epistles.
"You have more houses than you know what to do with; and you have one house in particular that little place at the back of Cureton Street where Cousin Mary Leicester lived so long which is in your hands still, I know, for you told me so last week which is vacant and furnished Cousin Mary left you the furniture, as if we hadn't got enough! and it would be the very thing for Julie, if only you'd lend it to her till she can turn round."
The Duchess was now standing up, confronting her lord, her hands grasping the chair behind her, her small form alive with eagerness and the feminine determination to get her own way, by fair means or foul. "Cureton Street!" said the Duke, almost at the end of his tether. "And how do you propose that this young woman is to live in Cureton Street, or anywhere else?"
Yet the results of this memorable evening upon Julie Le Breton were ultimately such as few could have foreseen. When Warkworth had left her, she went to her own room and sat for a long while beside the window, gazing at the dark shrubberies of the Cureton House garden, at the few twinkling, distant lights.
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