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Gibson away after my wife with another 1000 pieces, under colour of an express to Sir Jeremy Smith; who is, as I hear, with some ships at Newcastle; which I did really send to him, and may, possibly, prove of good use to the King; for it is possible, in the hurry of business, they may not think of it at Court, and the charge of an express is not considerable to the King.
My interviews with Miss Gibson were not of the most agreeable kind as you may conclude when I tell you she was, I believe, the instigator certainly, she was the agent in this last step of Miss Kirkpatrick's. 'Harriet, my dear, you've gone too far we had no right to pry into Mr. Preston's private affairs.
To her thinking, it would be treason to you for her to indulge in conversation with any other gentleman; but, then, she expects that you should spend your evenings with her, of course!" "But, Mrs. French, think of my engagements, as a clergyman." "We know all about that, Mr. Gibson. We know what a clergyman's calls are. It isn't like a doctor's, Mr. Gibson." "It's very often worse, Mrs. French."
However, at less than a mile from it, there was Tyndall's Spring, with an open shady space, among the clump of fine gum-trees, which gave us an excellent camping-place. Here the camp remained for some days. A line of green bulrushes fringed this spring. While the main party camped here, I once more tried to find some remains or traces of my lost companion Gibson, taking with me only Tommy Oldham.
Osborne Hamley had gone, 'what sort of a man is this Roger Hamley? One can't tell how much to believe of his brother's praises; for it is the one subject on which Osborne Hamley becomes enthusiastic. I've noticed it once or twice before. While Molly hesitated on which point of the large round to begin her description, Mrs. Gibson struck in,
'I sometimes think I am the kind of person of which old maids are made! She spoke seriously, and a little sadly. Mrs. Gibson began again. 'I don't want to know your secrets as long as they are secrets; but when all the town is talking about you, I think I ought to be told. 'But, mamma, I did not know I was such a subject of conversation; and even now I can't make out how it has come about.
His boys were in so many without him, from Shiloh to Port Gibson, and now, with all their first guns lost forever theirs and ours lost for them, not by them and after all this year of idleness, and the whole battery hanging to his name as it does oh, 'Randy, it would do more to cure his hurts than ten hospitals, there or here." "But the new risks, Nan, as he takes them!"
The photograph of Gibson standing near the men arrested in the raid, which John had noticed him posing for, occupied a four-column space. At the office P. Q. greeted him with a scowl. "Well, where have you been all afternoon?" the city editor demanded. "I was picked up in Gibson's raid," John replied. "What's the big idea?" "I didn't have any idea of getting arrested.
Gibson, plaintively. 'I shan't like to take you two girls, if you are not to have any partners. It will put me in such an awkward position. I wish we could join on to the Towers party. That would secure you partners, for they always bring a number of dancing men, who might dance with you after they had done their duty by the ladies of the house.
Gibson's severe, uncompromising look. As soon as she had left the room, Mr. Gibson sate down, and took up a new Edinburgh lying on the table, as an excuse for conversation. Was there anything in the article that made him say, after a minute or two, to Molly, who sate silent and wondering, "Molly, you must never trifle with the love of an honest man. You don't know what pain you may give."
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