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What more can be said? I gave him your letter to read, and since then he has asked me a dozen times at least if I had not forgotten to forward the remittance you asked for, saying that I must not delay it. The truth is, I have deferred writing till the last moment, because I have not succeeded in getting your fishes, and have always been hoping that I might be able to fulfill your commission.
He at once dispatched a man to follow the woman and conduct her to Council Grove, where she was kindly received, and remained for some time, hoping through the efforts of the agents to gain intelligence of the two children she had left with the Comanches, as she desired to take them back to their father in Texas; but no tidings were gained for a long while.
On the night of the 10th he bivouacked some six or seven miles east of Trevilian, while Fitz-Hugh Lee was the same night at Trevilian Station and Hampton but a few miles away. During the night Hampton ordered an advance on Sheridan, hoping, no doubt, to surprise and very badly cripple him.
I took up my usual post to watch the result, hoping for the sake of humanity that it might fail, but induce the inhabitants to submit. At a given signal the embankments were knocked down, and the water in a vast torrent rushed towards the town, flooding the entrenchments and shaking the walls.
"Begging your pardon, sir, but I took it on myself to order the colour, and hoping it wasn't a liberty." "Claret and invisible green a duplicate, but for a bullet-hole wanting." "Which I didn't like to go so far on my own hook, Mr. Anne." "We fight under the old colours, my lad." "And walk in and win this time, sir, strike me lucky!" While we bowled along the first stage towards London Mr.
The old man made no reply, seeming not to have heard me, but as I turned toward the door he raised up and said: "I would be a fool, sir, to blame you; and I trust that you will not blame me for hoping that you are mistaken." He lay down again, and I left him.
The gasping and terror-stricken millions waited and longed for the hour of sunrise, hoping that then the stygian darkness would be dissipated, so that people might, at least, see where to go and what to do. Many, oppressed by the almost unbreathable air, gave up in despair, and no longer even hoped for morning to come.
We ain't rich, of course; but there's enough to fill another mouth yet awhile, so don't be bashful. "'Hoping this finds you and Janice in health, it leaving us all the same, I will close, "'Your, sister-in-law and Janice's aunt, "'ALMIRA DAY." "I hope you won't have to go, and that I won't have to go, Daddy!" exclaimed the girl anxiously. "She's a good soul Almira. She'd do her best by you."
But we never intended to do them. Any one accustomed to politics will understand that. I expect the Prime Minister will be particularly civil to Lady Moyne. He'll see the hole she's in." I went down to the club next morning at about half-past ten o'clock, hoping to see Conroy. He, so I thought, might be able to tell me what was likely to happen during the day. Moyne could tell me nothing.
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