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Huntingdon reseated himself as the door closed behind her, and the lamplight showed a sinister smile writhing over his dark features. He sat there, staring out into the starry night, and seeing by the shimmer of the setting moon only the graceful form and lovely face of Amy Aubrey, as she had appeared to him in other days.
Will you run through this correspondence, Mr. Huntingdon, before I call in the Idaho contingent?" Enoch began rapidly to read letters and to dictate terse replies. They were not more than a third of the way down the pile when a buzzer sounded. Enoch looked up inquiringly. "I told Jonas to buzz for me at 9:20," explained young Abbott.
I was this day in the van, and our forlorn having entered Huntingdon without any great resistance till they came to the bridge, finding it barricaded, they sent me word; I caused the troops to halt, and rode up to the forlorn, to view the countenance of the enemy, and found by the posture they had put themselves in, that they resolved to sell us the passage as dear as they could.
"I will go myself, then," said Miss Huntingdon, "and see if I can hear anything of him from the neighbours." "Indeed, Kate," said her brother, "you must do nothing of the sort. Set your mind at rest. I will go myself and make inquiries; and if the boy does not make his appearance by luncheon time, we must take further steps to find him." "Can I be of any use, sir, in the matter?" asked Harry.
The college-book of Sidney Sussex contains this record: "Oliver Cromwell of Huntingdon was admitted as an associate on the 26th day of April, 1616. Tutor Richard Howlet." He had just completed his seventeenth year. Cromwell's father dying the next year, and leaving but a small estate, the young "Protector" was obliged to leave college for more practical pursuits.
The hostility on the part of many within the Established Church of the eighteenth century, to true New Testament ministry and practice, on the one hand expelled the Wesleyans from the National Church, and on the other compelled Lady Huntingdon to add one more to the dissenting bodies. The most noted of the churches which thus came into being were those at Brighton, Bath, and Spa Fields.
"Yes, surely," replied Miss Huntingdon sadly; "I cannot doubt its genuineness." Julia then tossed the letter to her brother and sat down. "And what is it, then," she asked bitterly, and with knitted brows, "that you want me to do?" "I think, dear Julia," said her aunt, "the real question is, What is it your duty to do?" "Oh yes," she cried passionately; "my duty! Duty's a very fine thing.
"Oh, but I have not promised them a lesson," said Miss Huntingdon, laughing. "No, auntie, perhaps not; but your hands have, these hands, which were crossed at breakfast, they have promised the lesson." "Well, dear boy, that is true in a measure, but I hardly know how to begin.
His family received from the Tudors the earldom of Huntingdon, which, after long dispossession, was regained in our time by a series of events scarcely paralleled in romance. The lords of the manor of Daylesford, in Worcestershire, claimed to be considered as the heads of this distinguished family. The main stock, indeed, prospered less than some of the younger shoots.
That straight line," which he scratched, "goes to Rouen from Compiegne. Here, midway, is Beauvais, whereof we spoke, which town we hold. But there, between us and Beauvais, is Clermont, held by Crevecoeur for the Burgundians, and here, midway between Beauvais and Rouen, is Gournay, where Kyriel and the Lord Huntingdon lie with a great force of English. Do you comprehend?
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