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Hardwicke's duty as "best man" was now the only bar to the beginning of a campaign destined to foil Andrew Fraser's Loch Leven tactics of imprisoning his niece and ward. "You will have but a brief honeymoon, Eric!" laughed Hardwicke. "You have promised to stand by me, Harry," replied his friend. "See me married to-morrow, then a week's honeymoon at Jersey is all that I ask!
So, after an hour's fly-fishing at the mouth of the brook opposite our camp, in which I got a couple of dozen, hooking two at a cast twice, and twice three at a cast, I started at seven o'clock on the 10th, and ran down with the current and paddles forty miles to Fraser's in seven hours the same distance which it took us two days and a half to make going up stream.
In April, 1760, of 894 men in Fraser's Highlanders not fewer than 580 were on the sick list and it was a wan and woe-begone host that set itself grimly to the task of meeting the assault on Quebec for which the French under Lévis had been preparing throughout the winter. When it came on April 28th, 1760, the Highlanders were not wanting.
This Lecture was given at Harrow in 1873, and in America in 1874. Fraser's Magazine, November, 1853. "Poems," by Alexander Smith. London: Bogue. 1853. Fraser's Magazine, October, 1853. Fraser's Magazine, September, 1850. "In Memoriam." Moxon, Dover Street. 1850. "The Princess, a Medley:" by Alfred Tennyson. Third Edition. 1850. "Poems:" by Alfred Tennyson. 1852. North British Review, No.
He was educated at Charterhouse School, then situated in Smithfield, and spent two years at Trinity College, Cambridge. After travelling on the continent as an artist, he returned to London, and wrote for the "Examiner" and "Fraser's Magazine," subsequently joining the staff of "Punch." "The Newcomes," finished by Thackeray at Paris in 1855, was the fourth of his great novels.
HUMBOLDT, Aspects of Nature, vol. i. pp. 77, 78. HERODOTUS, ii. 5. LOFTUS'S Chaldæa and Susiana, p. 282. See STRABO, xvi. 1, § 6; PLINY, H.N. vi. 28; PTOLEMY, v. 20; BEROSUS, pp. 28, 29. For the point where the Euphrates enters on the alluvium, see Fraser's Assyria and Mesopotamia, p. 27. RAWLINSON. The Five Great Monarchies, &c., vol. i., pp. 1-4.
Soon afterwards we were joined by David, and in reply to Mr Fraser's remarks, he said he hoped that Stanley was sufficiently recovered to bear the fatigue of travelling in the waggon. I undertook to arrange a bed slung from the roof, by which any jolting might be avoided. Calling Jack Handspike to my assistance, we soon contrived a comfortable cot for my cousin.
In this it admitted he might have been partially successful, for the English were a very yielding people and did not take much trouble to resist attempts of this kind. "Blackwood," however, was outdone in this rowdy style of reviewing by "Fraser's Magazine." "But this," it concluded, speaking of his England, "was his last kick, and we shall not disturb his dying moments."
Journalist and miscellaneous writer, b. at Cork, became a contributor to Blackwood's Magazine, and afterwards foreign correspondent to The Representative, a paper started by J. Murray, the publisher, and when its short career was run, one of the leading supporters of Fraser's Magazine. One of the most brilliant periodical writers of his time, he has left no permanent work behind him.
Higham, soon sold her share to the Cimon family who became prominent in the district and one of whose members sat in Parliament at Ottawa on the Conservative side. Mrs. Reeve died in 1879 leaving the use of the property to her husband, Colonel Reeve, for his life. When he died in 1888, his son Mr. John Fraser Reeve, Malcolm Fraser's great-grandson, became seigneur.
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