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North and east of it, at Alton, my Lord Crawford stood athwart the road with sufficient cavalry and Colonel Bolle's regiment of foot; yet farther north, Basing House, with my Lord of Winchester's garrison, blocked the upper path for us; and yet beyond, Sir Edward Ford's regiment held the passes of the hills toward Oxford; so that for the while, and in face of us, messengers, troops, even artillery, might pass to and fro without challenge.
Here in the midst of the native gardens we found that a fine house had been built for us of a kind of mud brick and thatched with palm leaves, surrounded by a fenced courtyard of beaten earth and having wide overhanging verandahs; a very comfortable place indeed in that delicious climate.
Two or three of them were in sight of our front windows, one being just across the street. Some of the enlisted men were detailed in the cook house, for which service they received extra rations. This brief description of the Confederate prisons in Danville, is necessary, that the reader may more easily understand some of the incidents that follow.
But young Twineall has been absent from the house for a fortnight and more, until two days since." "Very well, my dear sir, and how does that concern us?" "Stay, Mr.
While the removal issue was before the House, Madison had been prominent in debate, and had spoken with great power and earnestness; but up to this time he had said nothing on the issue now pending.
It is within my personal knowledge that she had usually the charge of the house in their absence, was entrusted with the keys, &c.; and was always considered by the neighbours and visitors as their confidential household servant, and as a person in whose integrity they placed unlimited confidence, although when Mrs.
You enter them, indeed, from the level of the road; but you are immediately obliged to ascend a staircase to reach the principal floor of the house, which is ten or fifteen feet above the road, and the gardens of the house are on terraces raised to that height by a wall.
And they fell asleep, cradled in tempting and diabolical visions lighted by the fires of hell. At nine o'clock next morning Hulot went off to the War Office, Crevel had business out of town; they left the house together, and Crevel held out his hand to the Baron, saying: "To show that there is no ill-feeling. For we, neither of us, will have anything more to say to Madame Marneffe?"
Her eyes fell upon only a vast, brilliant emptiness there were not forty people in the house! There were only a handful of coarse men and ten or twelve still coarser women, lolling upon the benches and scattered about singly and in couples. Her pulses stood still, her limbs quaked, the gladness went out of her face.
This child was named Mary after the house mother, and completed the number of those who for long constituted the inner circle of the family. The others were Janie, Alice a rescued twin of "royal" blood, and Annie the child of the woman who took a native oath to prove that she did not help her husband to eat a stolen dog.
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