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They climbed back into the wagon seat and once more passed out along Sim Gage's little lane. At the end, where it joined the main road, Wid pulled up. "Look yonder, Sim!" said he. "There's where that broad-tire wagon was tied." "The road's full of all sorts of tracks," said Sim, looking down, rifle in hand, from his seat.
'Yes, and what is worse, Edward Gage's dissenting wife, and Dick Rodd, who shows less sense of religion than any one in the parish, and has never been confirmed. 'Could you make them hear reason? 'They were inclined to be rather impertinent, said Mr. Devereux. 'Old Mrs. Gage 'Oh! interrupted Jane, 'there is no hope for you if the sour Gage is in the pie.
Next day they had found a bomb hole in a field on Gage's farm. That was before he knew that he was under sentence of death. He could almost have wished the bomb had finished him. It would have saved a lot of hanging about, many hours of cold fear in the pit of his stomach. He had counted on living to the normal Forsyte age of eighty-five or more, when Irene would be seventy.
"But don't take with us any fellow who is hot-blooded enough to do any real shooting." "It'll take real shooting to get Gage's crew off that ridge," Ferrers warned the young engineer. "All men get gold crazy when they find their feet on a claim. Dolph Gage will fight while he has breath left. Don't try to go over there, sir, if you're not satisfied to have a little shooting done at need."
The exposure of Gage's crookedness broke up the poker parties for that season, at least; and Frank was happy, for he had saved himself and rescued Hodge and Hans Dunnerwust. But he was happiest in receiving the approbation of Inza Burrage, who learned, through her brother, what Frank had done. "Sh!" "What's up?" "There's a carmine haze on the moon." "That's clear as mud! What's the racket?"
Few, looking at you now, would take you for an old campaigner." The style of feature in Delme and Clarendon was very dissimilar. Sir Henry was many years Gage's senior; but his manly bearing, and dark decided features, would bear a contrast with even the tall and elegant, although slight form of Clarendon. The latter was very fair, and what we are accustomed to call English-looking.
She liked the sweet, seductive cakes, and they brought back to memory happy times in Paris and her visits to Gagé's with Jack. "I am afraid they aren't very good," her hostess remarked, observing that Milly after all her research into the dish merely tasted her cake and pushed it away. "They don't seem able to make the nice French ones over here they're usually as heavy as lead."
The news of the burning of Falmouth did as much as any other event to impress the provincials with the impossibility of an agreement with the king. In Gage's place now stood Howe, on whom the British hopes centred. According to the Tory Samuel Paine, Howe united the spirit of a Wolfe with the genius of a Marlborough.
This leaves us very much in the dark as to why the Heights were not occupied; but occupied they were not; the plan receives no further mention, and though from month to month the British watched Washington seizing posts ever nearer to Boston, they behaved in all respects as if he were under pledge to avoid Dorchester. Gage's chief activity was in fortifying.
On October 10, 1765, more than two and a half years after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, Saint-Ange made the long-desired transfer of authority. General Gage's high-sounding proclamation was read, the British flag was run up, and Sterling's red-coated soldiery established itself in the citadel.
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