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Rolls, serving as a clerk at that gentleman's sugar wharf, a tall, broad-shouldered, strapping fellow, with red cheeks, and thick red lips, and rolling blue eyes, and hair as red as any chestnut. Many knew him for a bold, gruff-spoken man, but no one at that time suspected that he had it in him to become so famous and renowned as he afterward grew to be.
Well, however, in spite of all obstacles, Captain Laughton piloted us safe to Ague and Fever Landing, where, depend upon it, we did not stay a moment longer than sufficed to jump into a coloured gentleman's waggon, which was in waiting, and in which we were driven off as a coloured gentleman always drives, that is to say, in a hand-gallop, to Winch's tavern, our old accustomed inn at St.
Quick, my dear boy, or you may be too late my daughter oh, God, have mercy! "Collins," said I, "off with your neckerchief; quick, my man; tie it tightly about this gentleman's arm, above the wound, mind, and stay here in charge of him until you are relieved. Now, lads, away on deck we go. Follow me; hurrah!"
'Where is he? screamed Nancy, in a distracted manner. 'Why, the gentleman's got him, replied the officer. 'What gentleman! Oh, gracious heavens! What gentleman? exclaimed Nancy.
In the end Neil sighed, tossed down the volume, and made ready for bed without having found a solution of the problem. The following Monday Neil was rewarded for his good showing in the Woodby game by being taken on to the varsity. Paul remained on the second team, and Cowan, greatly to that gentleman's bewilderment and wrath, joined him there.
Assisted by Caroline, he managed to check the famous delineation of the adventurer prince in which a not very worthy gentleman's chronic fever of abomination made him really eloquent, quick to unburden himself in the teeth of decorum. 'And my son-in-law! My son-in-law! ejaculated Mr.
To my mind, Sir, there is not a place from which a man has a better view of things than the bit carpet behind a gentleman's chair. The gentleman eats, and talks, and swears, and jests, and plays cards and makes love, and tries to cheat, and is cheated, and his man stands behind with his eyes and ears open, augh!" "One should go to service to learn diplomacy, I see," said Walter, greatly amused.
Johnson's Court, Charing Cross, Nov. 29, 1740. For details of the Spanish invasion in 1742, I refer to the Gentleman's Magazine, Vol.
For a week we frequented the gentleman's orange grove every day, and ate oranges to our heart's content. Several times during the week we were invited to different houses, where we boys became quite interested in the fair girls of Louisiana. It was ten days from the time we settled in the beer garden, and we had kept our secret well.
'I could not, he said, 'quite follow all his old-fashioned wit, but he must have been a very pretty fellow, according to the ideas of his time. 'And it was a shame, said Ensign Maccombich, who usually followed his Colonel everywhere, 'for that Tibbert, or Taggart, or whatever was his name, to stick him under the other gentleman's arm while he was redding the fray.
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