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Go home now and go to bed, and you mustn't dream of anything but 'yes." So the good woman fended off thanks, and sent the happy girl home with an enhanced sense of the value of friendship. There was a flutter throughout the ballroom when Guilford Duncan, in the costume of Hamlet, ushered in Barbara Verne, in her Quaker-maid's dress.
General Phillips, who now assumed command of the British in southeastern Virginia, immediately began to plan to join Cornwallis, who in the meantime had won the doubtful victory of Guilford Courthouse and had retreated to Wilmington. The situation in Edenton was now alarming in the extreme.
The speakers on the ministerial side in the debates on the Middlesex election had been especial objects of these misrepresentations; and, at the beginning of 1771, one of that party, Colonel Onslow, M.P. for Guilford, brought the subject before the House, complaining that many speeches, and his own among them, had been misrepresented by two newspapers which he named, and that "the practice had got to an infamous height, so that it had become absolutely necessary either to punish the offenders or to revise the standing orders."
LETTER XLIII. TO GENERAL WASHINGTON, February 17, 1781 Richmond, February 17, 1781. Sir, By a letter from General Greene, dated Guilford Court House, February 10th, we are informed that Lord Cornwallis had burned his own wagons in order to enable himself to move with greater facility, and had pressed immediately on.
Well, friend Peters, here, who has gone considerably into land speculations east of the mountains, you know, had brought, it seems, several suits for the possession of lands, mostly in this same Guilford; and among the rest, one for a right of land in possession of a sturdy young log-roller, whom they called Harry Woodburn, who appeared in court in his striped woollen frock, and insisted on defending his own case, as he proceeded to do with a great deal of confidence.
Duncan smiled and kept silence for a while. "Was that wrong, or very foolish, Guilford? I can really understand the book." "Of course you can, and it was neither wrong nor very foolish in you to try. It was only very loyal and very loving. But there was no occasion for you to do anything of the sort." "But how can I help you if I don't try my best to understand the things you are dealing with?"
They subscribed freely to the expense, and better still, they lent personal countenance to the entertainments. Guilford Duncan also attended one of the entertainments, though it had been his fixed purpose not to do so. The reason was that Guilford Duncan was altogether human and a full-blooded young man. From the time of his arrival at Cairo until now, he had not had any association with women.
As there was no other bank in Cairo, and nobody else who could make a loan such as Tandy must have on the instant, he was simply compelled to make the sale on Hallam's own terms. With Hallam's check in hand, he hurried to the X National, arriving there just in time to meet Guilford Duncan's demand.
If Major Guilford is wrecking the railroad, why is he spending so much money on improvements? Have you thought to ask yourself that question?" "A good many times," he admitted, following her promptly back to first principles. "And you have not found the answer?" "Not one that fully satisfies me no." "I've found one." "Intuitively?" he smiled. "No; it's pure logic, this time.
Now, in Guilford Street people will come to me." "It should certainly be a pleasanter neighbourhood to live in," agreed my mother. "Later on," said my father, "in case I want the whole house for offices, we could live ourselves in Regent's Park. It is quite near to the Park." "Of course you have consulted Mr. Hasluck?" asked my mother, who of the two was by far the more practical.
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