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Golding sighed deeply, and sat as one amazed. 'It is even so, my kind friend, said Mr. Truelocke, smiling. 'Well, I can't tell what you may think here of the matter, went on Master Harry; 'but in my conscience, I think my father's conscience something too tender.
A broker, running the tape through his fingers listlessly, reads this sentence: "London, Oct. 12, James Golding announces his intention to float $245,000,000 three per cent. U.S. gold bonds in London." In an instant he realizes that the confidence of the market will be restored. Rushing to the pit he begins to buy everything that is offered.
This year the Globe playhouse, on the Bankside, was burned, and the year following the new playhouse, the Fortune, in Golding Lane, "was by negligence of a candle, clean burned down to the ground." In this year also, 1614, the town of Stratford-on-Avon was burned.
Instead of knocking our friends on the head and eating them as they had purposed, the savages came crouching down before them in the most abject manner, as if they were beings altogether of a different nature. Still, as Golding says, the look of those ovens made him glad to get down to the beach, lest the Indians should again change their minds about him.
The captain, as I speak, begins to grow angry. Golding bursts into a fit of laughter. "You're talking Greek to me," says he. "How could these black savages, who have never seen a book in their lives, understand the Bible, even if you gave it them? It's hard enough for civilised white people to comprehend, eh, Captain Fuller! You find it a tough job? I'm sure I do."
The hand fell to the old man's side. "Who are you?" he faintly exclaimed. "I know you yet I cannot quite remember." More and more the voice and manner of the outlaw altered as he replied with mocking bitterness: "I was Edward Golding, gentleman; I became Edward Golding, forger; I am Roadmaster, convicted of manslaughter, and bushranger." The old man's state was painful to see.
Supped at the "Three Crowns" with Phineas Golding our supercargo, and so aboard, my leave being up, and work enough and over to get the ship ready for sea. A long voyage before us of four, or it may be of five years.
He professed to represent a syndicate of French investors which was negotiating to purchase and work a gold mine in Lower California. According to his story, he had secured the necessary privileges from the Mexican government. Golding was invited to be a participant in the enterprise, which was destined to prove a bonanza.
My word was to them as the shining of a candle into a dark, dirty place, and the sight of their foulness made them mad against me. But in thee I perceive purity of intention; and I will gladly reason with thee of the things of the Spirit, according to this good woman's desire. So after supper Aunt Golding showed the Quaker and Mr.
Vickars had assisted Arthur Golding, the learned instructor to young Edward Vere, the 17th earl, who was born in 1550, and had succeeded to the title at the age of twelve, and he had afterwards been tutor to the earl's cousins, John, Francis, Robert, and Horace, the sons of Geoffrey, fourth son of the 15th earl.
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