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Updated: April 30, 2025
Foss says of Blackstone: 'Ere he had been long on the bench he experienced the bad effects of the studious habits in which he had injudiciously indulged in his early life, and of his neglect to take the necessary amount of exercise, to which he was specially averse. He died at the age of 56. Foss's Judges, viii. 250. He suffered greatly from his corpulence.
Just as the approaching sun began to clear the air, just as with a spring at her heart Fanny felt that to be present at the opening of a fine day was worth all the trouble in the world, the engine began to knock. She saw Foss's head tilt a little sideways, like a keen dog who is listening. The knock increased.
All had been going so well, the guests were in such happy and talkative form, that the minor matter of taking food had dragged, and the diners were not ready to rise when a servant whispered to Mrs. Foss that the first evening guest had arrived. Mrs. Foss's eyes found those of Leslie, who understood the words soundlessly framed, and excused herself from the table.
As we have seen him doing more than once this afternoon, Gerald here tried to get his clue from Brenda herself, her face, her atmosphere. Yet he knew, as has already been said, that it was Brenda Foss's way to keep these as much as she could from telling anything to the world.
"Oh, no doubt, he has had sense enough to run in somewhere and tie up," predicted Midshipman Dan charitably. "I hope so," murmured Belle. "But Tom is an awfully stubborn fellow." Toot! too-oo-oot! sounded a whistle up the river. "By ginger, there comes Foss's boat now!" muttered Dan, standing up and staring. "Why doesn't the idiot make land?"
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