Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 17, 2025
Shaw, through me, offers to impound the whole of the sum to answer the issue of the unsettled demands made upon him by those gentlemen respectively. "How then can we guarantee Mr. Hammersley in the payment of any sum out of this fund, so circumstanced? Mr. Hammersley's possible profits are prospective, and the prospect remote.
"Devilish hard but I believe you are right; something, however, may turn up yet to alter his mind, and if so, and if you do take to dragooning, don't forget George Hammersley will be always most delighted to meet you; and so good-by, O'Malley, good-by." He turned his horse's head and was already some paces off, when he returned to my side, and in a lower tone of voice said,
On the evening of the 12th, orders were received for the German brigade and three squadrons of our regiment to pursue the French upon the Terracinthe road by daybreak on the following morning. I was busily occupied in my preparations for a hurried march when Mike came up to say that an officer desired to speak with me; and the moment after Captain Hammersley appeared.
"I certainly am sorry, most sincerely sorry for any share I might have had in the catastrophe; and my greatest regret, I confess, arises from the fact that I should cause you unhappiness." "Me? Pray explain." "Why, as Captain Hammersley " "Mr. O'Malley, you are too young now to mate me suspect you have an intention to offend; but I caution you, never repeat this."
"Heaven confound him!" I muttered between my teeth. "And then he wished to have an interview with Captain Hammersley. However, he is too ill; but as the doctor hoped he might be down-stairs in a week, Mr. Considine kindly hinted that he should wait." "Oh, then, do tell me how is the captain."
He saw, he read my difficulty at a glance, and with a smile of most supercilious expression, repeated coolly his former question. In an instant all thought of Hammersley was forgotten. I remembered no more. I saw him before me, he who had, since my first meeting, continually contrived to pass some inappreciable slight upon me. My eyes flashed, my hands tingled with ill-repressed rage, as I said,
"Ah!" said the gentleman, "that is more than I know, more than Neville knows, more than anybody knows." "Bet you a guinea she knows, and lets it out before she leaves the field," said Major Rickards. Mr. Hammersley objected to an even bet; but said he would venture one to three she did not. It was an age of bets. "Done!" said the Major. By this time Kate had risen, with Mr.
At the period of this history, he was clerk to Sir Hugh Hammersley, alderman. The third person, a minor canon of Saint Paul's, named Thomas Quatremain, was a grave, sallow-complexioned man, with a morose and repulsive physiognomy. He was habited in the cassock of a churchman of the period, and his black velvet cap lay beside him on the table.
"Yes I've got the ox-cart," said the person addressed. "I came in town for a barrel of flour; and then the near ox had lost both his fore-shoes off, and I had to go over there; and Hammersley has kept me a precious long time. What's wanting, Mrs. Forbes? I can't stop." "You've no load in the cart, have you?" said the landlady.
I saw the water dashing among the large stones; I heard it splash; I felt a bound like the ricochet of a shot; and we were over, but so narrowly that the bank had yielded beneath his hind legs, and it needed a bold effort of the noble animal to regain his footing. Scarcely was he once more firm, when Hammersley flew by me, taking the lead, and sitting quietly in his saddle, as if racing.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking