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"It's as much as a thousand miles. It may be more." "Phew! That's a big distance. How did you come?" "We came in the cars." "Did it cost much?" "I don't know. Mr. Ford paid for the tickets." "Has he got plenty of money?" "I don't think he has. He used to be pa's clerk." "I wish we had enough money.
I wrote back, curtly enough, saying that I regretted the breaking-off of an intercourse which had always been very pleasant to me, but that he must be aware that, with my intimacy with the family at Ford Bank, it would be both awkward and unpleasant to all parties if he and I remained on our previous footing. Who is that going past the window? Ellinor riding?" Miss Monro went to the window. "Yes!
If the youth's good sense had been equal to his courage, he would have been a fine fellow: he dashed straight into the ford, floundered through it, and lost his footing no more than had Don, treated properly.
Dismounting my men, we received the savages with a heavy fire, which brought them to a halt with some damage and more or less confusion. General Rains now became very much excited and alarmed about me, and endeavored to ford the swift river with his infantry and artillery, but soon had to abandon the attempt, as three or four of the poor fellows were swept off their feet and drowned.
Just as the gallant horse reached the opposite bank Reginald galloped down to the ford on his way home for Sunday. "Upon my word, John, you're a perfect slave to that youngster! What mad thing will you be doing next, I wonder?" "The next thing will be to go back again," said John with a smile, while Nan clung fast to his neck and peeped shyly through her curls at her brother.
Ford kissed his sister, but that operation hardly checked him for an instant in his voluble narrative of the stirring events of his first morning on the bay. There was really little for anybody else to do but to listen, and it was worth hearing. There was no sort of interruption on the part of the audience; but the moment Ford paused for breath his mother said,
Master Ford thinks, as the chief part of the stores would be left behind, they would have the advantage of them. They have induced three or four silly young women to promise to remain with them. Of course, the plan of burning the ship is a secret.
Into that room, on three days a week, Ford, the severely respectable footman, ushered in patients one after the other, many of them Society women suffering from what is known in these degenerate days as "nerves." Indeed, Eyton was par excellence a ladies' doctor, for so many of the gentler sex get burnt up in the mad rush of a London season.
The question was the stimulus Ford needed in order to get his wits into play. "No," he replied, slowly; "I've a right to protection from the man who sentenced me to death for a crime of which he knows me innocent." Wayne concealed a start by smoothing the newspaper over his crossed knees, but he was unable to keep a shade of thickness out of his voice as he answered: "You had a fair trial.
Other Romans there were, and amongst them men in the attire of the Goths, busied about the river banks, as though they were going to try the ford.
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