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Updated: June 11, 2025
He wondered what response it was that that voice found in the forgotten recesses of his memory.... "Ahoy!" seemed to call this new yet faintly remembered voice. "What's all this about? Listen. We're His Majesty's destroyer Seapink, out of Devonport last October, and nothing particular the matter with us. Now who are you?"
For unselfishness this policy was unmatched; but it nearly ruined the Moravian Church in England. At three places Woodford,147 Baildon and Devonport the Brethren turned societies into congregations; but most of the others were sooner or later abandoned. In Yorkshire the Brethren closed their chapel at Pudsey, and abandoned their societies at Holbeck, Halifax, Wibsey and Doncaster.
'That's all I require, said Goldsmith, and sent him box tickets for the author's benefit night, that he might go and laugh again. Sir Joshua's pupil was James Northcote, a long-lived man, born at Devonport in 1746, and dying at his London house, in Argyll Place, Regent Street, in 1831. If he had a Titianesque look in his youth, he possessed it still more in his age.
We've enough evidence about the Devonport case to arrest McMurtrie and Savaroff straight away, but I feel it would be madness while there's a chance of getting to the bottom of this business. Perhaps you understand now why I've risked everything tonight. We're playing for high stakes, Mr. Lyndon, and you " he paused "well, I'm inclined to think that you've the ace of trumps."
I became a human being all in a minute when I thought of it. I became suddenly full of courage for the hateful dockers. I thought how much more discouraging it would be if they had not been hateful at all. I do not imagine God was sorry when He heard those fifty thousand dockers asking Him to strike Lord Devonport dead. Not that He would have approved of it.
He did not say that he had already been in touch with the Scotland Yard officer at Devonport, and had arranged that a dozen out of his precious twenty-four counter-spies should be put among the chosen hundred and twenty. Dawson never did allow his left hand to know the wiles of his right.
The first Sunday that I spent at Devonport I went to the dockyard church the church appointed for officials and men employed by the Government. The seats were appointed in the order of rank, employments, and rate of pay. The rows of seats were all marked with the class of employers that were expected to sit in them. Labourers were near the door.
A young apprentice with very little heart in the study of his craft, after the manner of young apprentices, toiling in a watch and clock-maker's shop in the town of Devonport, heard one day the fame of great Sir Joshua's achievements in London sounding through the county became conscious that the good folks of the shire took pride in the son of the Rev.
Katie predicted that Alaric would certainly marry Mary Jane Wheal, and bring her to Surbiton Cottage, and Captain Cuttwater offered to the hero introductions to all the old naval officers at Devonport. 'By jingo! I should like to go with you, said the captain. 'I fear the pleasure would not repay the trouble, said Alaric, laughing. 'Upon my word I think I'll do it, said the captain.
And, as Father remarks, Ireland is troublesome again; but Sir Bryan Mahon ought to be able to deal with the insurgents, even though Lord Wimborne is still Viceroy; and Duke is a better Chief Secretary than Birrell! "How is Lord Rhondda going on as Food Controller? Are things any better than they were under Devonport? Lloyd George seems to be declining in popularity.
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