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Grose, at the same instant, uttered over my violence the shriek of a creature scared, or rather wounded, which, in turn, within a few seconds, was completed by a gasp of my own. I seized my colleague's arm. "She's there, she's there!"
A sort of notion has, by some means or another, crept into the world that difference of religion would render men unfit to perform together the offices of common and civil life: that Brother Wood and Brother Grose could not travel together the same circuit if they differed in creed, nor Cockell and Mingay be engaged in the same cause, if Cockell was a Catholic and Mingay a Muggletonian.
"With a determination indescribable. With a kind of fury of intention." I made her turn pale. "Intention?" "To get hold of her." Mrs. Grose her eyes just lingering on mine gave a shudder and walked to the window; and while she stood there looking out I completed my statement. "THAT'S what Flora knows." After a little she turned round. "The person was in black, you say?"
Grose tells us that an archer could formerly shoot six arrows in the time necessary to charge and discharge a musket; and, as a specimen of the aim to be taken, even in modern days, a practised bowman has been known to shoot twelve arrows in a minute, into a circle not larger than the circumference of a man's hat, at the distance of forty yards.
So to the Bull Head whither W. Simons comes to us and I gave them my foy A feast given by one who is about to leave a place. In Kent, according to Grose, a treat to friends, either at going abroad or coming home. against my going to sea; and so we took leave one of another, they promising me to write to me to sea. Sheply.
Grose could join me. Perfectly can I recall now the particular way strength came to me before we separated for the night. We had gone over and over every feature of what I had seen. "He was looking for someone else, you say someone who was not you?" "He was looking for little Miles." A portentous clearness now possessed me. "THAT'S whom he was looking for." "But how do you know?"
It is of no use going into that diffuse subject that vexatissima quæstio of how far the military dress of ancient days accorded with the wants and uses of the service; the reader may go and look into that dusty little volume of Vegetius de Re Militari, if he is fond of dabbling in military antiquities; or he may consult our learned old friend, Captain Grose of facetious memory; or still better, let him be off to Goderich Court, and ask the porter to admit him to a sight of the finest collection of armour in the world.
I forthwith expressed that the proper as well as the pleasant and friendly thing would be therefore that on the arrival of the public conveyance I should be in waiting for him with his little sister; an idea in which Mrs. Grose concurred so heartily that I somehow took her manner as a kind of comforting pledge never falsified, thank heaven! that we should on every question be quite at one.
The little girl who accompanied Mrs. Grose appeared to me on the spot a creature so charming as to make it a great fortune to have to do with her. She was the most beautiful child I had ever seen, and I afterward wondered that my employer had not told me more of her.
Expeditions of Governor Phillip Mouth of the Hawkesbury found in Broken Bay Second expedition and ascent of the river Expedition of Captain Tench Discovery of the Nepean River Lieutenant Dawes sent to cross the Nepean, and to try to penetrate the mountains Attempt by Governor Phillip to establish the confluence of the Nepean and Hawkesbury Failure The identity settled by Captain Tench Escaped convicts try to reach China Captain Paterson finds and names the Grose River Hacking endeavours to cross the Blue Mountains The lost cattle found on the Cow Pastures Bass attempts the passage of the range Supposed settlement of a white race in the interior Attempt of the convicts to reach it James Wilson His life with the natives Discovery of the Hunter River by Lieutenant Shortland.
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