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They found comfort of a gloomy kind in an interminable and conscientious analysis of their unappreciated worth; and inspired by Donkin's hopeful doctrines they dreamed enthusiastically of the time when every lonely ship would travel over a serene sea, manned by a wealthy and well-fed crew of satisfied skippers. It looked-as if it would be a long passage.
In an instant he came back again, glanced furtively at Mr. Donkin's face, and then, once more having recourse to brushing his hat, he said, in a low voice 'You'll not be hard upon him, sir, I hope? 'I must do my duty, replied Mr. Donkin, a little sternly, 'without any question of hardness.
This officer, on his own discretion, moved from the position assigned to him, on seeing the serious attack made on Colonel Donkin's brigade on the evening of the 27th and, scaling the hill, opened so heavy a fire on the French ascending it that five battalions fell back, without taking part in the attack. This took place at the crisis of the engagement, and had a decisive effect on its result."
It was a possibility, that was all; and Donkin's fingers worked the seventeen, the life and death calling, calling on the night trick to the day man at Cassil's Siding.
The evidence is clear as to his being present, aiding and abetting, indicted on the 4th section of 1 George I., statute 1, chapter 5. I'm afraid it's a bad look-out. Is he a friend of yours, Mr. Hepburn? 'Only an uncle, sir, said Philip, his heart getting full; more from Mr. Donkin's manner than from his words. 'But what can they do to him, sir? 'Do? Mr.
They wavered. "You know this?" asked the master. "No, I don't," answered the other, with cheeky trepidation. "You are a cur. Take it," ordered the master. Donkin's arms seemed glued to his thighs; he stood, eyes front, as if drawn on parade. "Take it," repeated the master, and stepped closer; they breathed on one another. "Take it," said Captain Allistoun again, making a menacing gesture.
Everybody's eyes, the three of them, were on Donkin's fingers and the key. Carleton was like a man of stone, motionless, his face set harder than face was ever carved in marble. It grew hot in the room; but Donkin's fingers were like ice on the key, and, strong man though he was, he faltered.
Thornton was in habits of authority himself, but she seemed to assume some kind of rule over him at once. He had been getting impatient at the loss of his time on a market-day, the moment before she appeared, yet now he calmly took a seat at her bidding. 'Do you know where it is that Mr. Hale has gone to? Perhaps I might be able to find him. 'He has gone to a Mr. Donkin's in Canute Street.
It swung like the writhings of a snake, through cuts and tunnels, hugging the cañon walls, twisting this way and that. Anywhere else there might be a chance, one in a thousand even, that they would see each other's headlights in time here it was disaster quick and absolute. Donkin's lips were set in a thin, straight line. The Gap answered him; and the answer was like the knell of doom.
Sylvia did not quite understand the state of things as regarded politics and taxes and politics and taxes were all one in her mind, it must be confessed but she saw that her innocent little scheme of giving her father the change of society afforded by Donkin's coming had answered; and in the gladness of her heart she went out and ran round the corner of the house to find Kester, and obtain from him that sympathy in her success which she dared not ask from her mother.
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