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Horner, at Mulberry, Dorsetshire, where benevolence has fixed her seat. Permit me, therefore, to transport thee thither, to bless thy sight with the delightful scene. See, already, the parish church, rebuilt at her expense, strikes the eye; it is she that has erected it to the honour of her God.
That civilization is very arbitrary, meaning one thing in France, another thing at Leaphigh, and still a third in Dorsetshire. That there is no sensible difference between motives in the polar region and motives anywhere else. That truth is a comparative and local property, being much influenced by circumstances; particularly by climate and by different public opinions.
Their father, of farming stock, had come from Dorsetshire near the beginning of the century. 'Superior Dosset Forsyte, as he was called by his intimates, had been a stonemason by trade, and risen to the position of a master-builder. Towards the end of his life he moved to London, where, building on until he died, he was buried at Highgate.
Like all self-sufficient people, he was tolerably blind to everything that happened under his nose, and he had fully believed that his own society, and the Spartan regularity of his household, had been the attractions which had made Dorsetshire delightful to his guest.
That is the "Open Sesame!" of human intercourse. She preferred to say that in their village her clan's, that is in Dorsetshire, there was a sept named Chobey that always went into an underground cellar and stopped its ears, whenever there was a thunderstorm. Mr. Pellew said weakly: "It runs in families."
It is the only room on this floor worth showing you. My father brought the wainscoting from an old English country-house in Dorsetshire. My father's people were Torries, sir, and kept up their connection with the old country." It was a delightful room into which Dan now admitted the light of day, drawing aside the heavy green curtains from the eastern windows.
"Nathanael, our old friend here says you wished to speak with me?" "I did." "Make haste, then, for I am going to London to-night I have made up my mind. I cannot settle here in Dorsetshire." "Not if it were your father's wish his last longing desire?" "Anne, for God's sake don't speak of my father." He leant his elbow on the table and covered his eyes.
He did not care to say anything about Mrs. Jones; he got no crumb of comfort out of that view of the matter. Things had come out, unwittingly for the most part, in his conversations with Mollett, which made him quite certain as to the truth of the main part of the story. All those Dorsetshire localities were well known to the man, the bearings of the house, the circumstances of Mr.
She was the wife of the Right Honourable Sir John Bankes, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas and a member of His Majesty's Privy Council. When it began to appear that the differences between King Charles and his Parliament would be settled by arms, Lady Bankes retired with her children to Corfe Castle, in Dorsetshire.
Saying this, and having wrung Stephen's hand, Roger sprang up the side of his ship, when the little Duck, shoving off, made sail to the eastward, while the Ruby stood on her course down Channel. The gale had been blowing for some days on the Dorsetshire coast.
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