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When we consider everything, we must acknowledge that this was, at any rate, good-natured. Then there was a tender parting, with many tears, and Conway Dalrymple escaped from the house. He did not for a moment doubt the truth of the story which Mrs Broughton had told, as far, at least, as it referred to the ruin of Dobbs Broughton.
I stopped in the street, and listened to the Dominie in continuation "But, fair maiden, omnia vincit amor here am I, Dominie Dobbs, who have long passed the grand climacteric, and can already muster three score years who have authority over seventy boys, being Magister Princeps et Dux of Brentford Grammar School who have affectioned only the sciences, and communed only with the classics who have ever turned a deaf ear to the allurements of thy sex, and ever hardened my heart to thy fascination here am I, even I, Dominie Dobbs, suing at the feet of a maiden who had barely ripened into womanhood, who knoweth not to read or write, and whose father earns his bread by manual labour.
The police gave away nothing at the police court. Bill Dobbs was down there and he told me they let out nothing, except that their principal witness against Fred is that fellow Hill. I always knew he'd squeak. I told Fred to have nothing to do with the job." The girl's eyes flashed viciously. She tossed the cigarette into the fire-place and straightened herself.
The man in bed called out, "Oh, stranger!" and, as Dobbs stopped, said, "Come yar." Dobbs entered a little timidly, as was his habit with strangers. "I don't know who you be nor care, I reckon," said the stranger. "This yer man" pointing to Wiles "is Wiles. I'm Josh Sibblee of Fresno, Member of Congress from the 4th Congressional District of Californy.
If they think it's about right, they'll give you the money; and if they don't, they won't." Mr Crosbie then left the office without exchanging another word with Dobbs Broughton, and went down into Hook Court. As he descended the stairs he turned over in his mind the propriety of going to Messrs Burton and Bangles with the view of relieving himself from his present difficulty.
"Yes," said Joel. "They couldn't wait, my friend," observed Bingley sarcastically, "for people of such trifling consequence, as you and I." "The deuce! you here, Bingley?" exclaimed Dobbs, in his natural voice, and trying to get his head up. "Oh, you are coming to, are you?" said Bingley carelessly.
They went with rifles, muskets and bayonets alone against breastworks, defended by a valiant foe, for the French are valiant, and they paid the price. But our army is in existence and it's as brave as ever. Albany is in no danger. Don't be alarmed." "You're but a boy. You don't know," growled Dobbs. "Peace, Mr. Dobbs! Give us peace. A boy who has seen may know better than a man who has not seen.
A temper naturally adventurous led him to the border lines of civilization; and it was there, in the region where North Carolina and eastern Tennessee meet, that the years succeeding the Revolution appear mainly to have been passed. It was there also that he met and married his wife, Elizabeth Shine, a native of Dobbs County, North Carolina, where she was born on the 7th of June, 1765.
While the Castle was temporizing with both the military and the manufacture movement, in a vague expectation to defeat both, the press, as is usual in such national crises, teemed with publications of great fervour and ability. Dr. Jebb, Mr. Pollock, Mr. Charles Sheridan, Father Arthur O'Leary, and Mr. Dobbs, M.P., were the chief workers in this department of patriotic duty.
At least, I've said all that I have to say on the subject. For the rest, I'll listen to the ideas of the rest of you." There was silence, broken at last by Greg, who said: "I think I agree, in the main, with Prescott." "Oh, of course," grunted Dobbs, in a tone which might mean that Greg Holmes was but the "shadow" of Dick Prescott.
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