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"Then while you are harnessing your nag, I'll drop a line to the riding-officer at Polperro; and if after receipt of it he allows a single fishing-boat to leave the harbour, he'll be sorry that's all. Now, sir Eh? Why are you hesitating?" "Well, indeed, your reverence knows best; and if you force me to drive over to Squire Granville's, why then I must.
The Duke said that, having called one day to inquire for a very old Catholic priest living in one of these houses, while he was sitting by his bedside, the Episcopalian clergyman came into the room for the same purpose. Sunday, 18th. Dinner at Lord Granville's. I had not dined with him for some years since his marriage. The room was rather dark when I went in.
"Can I do anything for you?" asked Hilda. The new landlady raised her watery and dejected eyes. "If you wouldn't mind taking every single one of those knick-knacks off the mantelpiece and putting them away on the top shelf of the cupboard " Hilda smiled. "It's a bit crowded, isn't it?" "Crowded!" By her intonation of this one word Sarah Gailey condemned Mrs. Granville's whole life.
Attended the funeral at Ancrum on the 10th. Mr. Liddell read the English service at the grave. To Brougham on my way back. October 13th. Left London on a visit to the Marochettis at Vaux. 23rd. Visit to the Guizots at Val Richer. 27th, to Caen. 28th, to Angers. 30th, to Saumur. November 1st. Amboise. 2nd, Loches. 4th, Paris. 7th. Home. 8th. Dinner at Lord Granville's. 23rd.
And what made him the hottest and angriest of all was the knowledge meanwhile that he was doing it every bit for Granville's own sake; nay, more, that consideration for Granville alone had brought him originally into this peck of trouble. At last he could contain himself with indignation no longer. His temper broke down. He flared up and out with it. "Take care what you do!" he cried.
We see in our own time that the books written by public men of note are generally rated at more than their real value: Lord Granville's little compositions, for example; Canning's verses; Fox's history; Brougham's treatises. The writings of people of high fashion, also, have a value set on them far higher than that which intrinsically belongs to them.
And 'the wheels go round without a sound. Yes, they would on Blackadon turf! Any more questions? No? Then I'll take my turn with a few." He wheeled round upon the farmer. "Ever seen it yourself?" "No, sir." "Has anyone here seen it?" No; but the maidservant's father had seen it, three weeks ago the very night that Squire Granville's house was tried Mr. Noy was almost capering.
There is no doubt that that publication was the direct and immediate cause of Lord Granville's telegram of 10th January; but Sir Evelyn Baring, unmoved by what people thought or said at home, coldly replied on 11th January that Gordon is not the man he wants.
Edmund Fanning, the most hated of Lord Granville's agents, though convicted, escaped punishment. Enraged at this miscarriage of justice, the Regulators began a system of terrorization by taking possession of the court, presided over by Richard Henderson. The judge himself was obliged to slip out by a back way to avoid personal injury. The Regulators burned his house and stable.
The old man now understood both the hopes and the fears of the poor woman. The letter was from her son. He had returned to France to share in Granville's expedition, and was taken prisoner. The letter was written from his cell, but it told her to hope. He did not doubt his means of escape, and he named to her three days, on one of which he expected to be with her in disguise.
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