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She had also, subsequent to Willoughby's departure on his travels, uttered sceptical things concerning his rooted attachment to Laetitia Dale. In her bitter vulgarity, that beaten rival of Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson for the leadership of the county had taken his nose for a melancholy prognostic of his fortunes; she had recently played on his name: she had spoken the hideous English of his fate.
Greybarns was a farmhouse just beyond Burwood, about half a mile away. Mrs. Thornburgh moved on, her matronly face aglow with interest. 'Mary Jenkinson taken ill! she said. 'Of course, that's Doctor Baker! Well, it's to be hoped it won't be twins this time. But, as I told her last Sunday, "It's constitutional, my dear." I knew a woman who had three pairs! Five o'clock now.
But if there was any one who understood Warrender's feelings it was this same Brunson, who was in his way an honest fellow, and understood the situation. "It is all pot-hunting, you know," this youth said. "They don't care for me any more than they care for Jenkinson.
The violent slamming of a distant door at that instant, the sounds of quick scuffling on the staircase, and the uplifting of an irate voice had reached her ears and thrown her back in the arms of Polly Jenkinson. Even the young girl herself turned an anxious gaze towards the door. Don Jose alone was unmoved. "Possess yourselves in peace, Senoritas," he said calmly.
Jenkinson and the children and the life in the house in Manchester. She wanted to gain time and commonplace talk helped her. "She won't be married again until her year's up," she explained. "And it's the best thing she could do being left a young widow with children and nothing to live on. Mr. Jenkinson can give her more than she's ever had in the way of comforts."
I have a character and a sister. How am I to explain all this to my sister, I should like to know?" "Oh, make any excuse you can think of to her. Now, Mr. Jenkinson, you know there cannot be any real difficulty in that. You consent then? A thousand, thousand thanks! I will send you a few more instructions by letter this evening. I really must not stay any longer now. Good-bye." "Stop!
We have already in a previous chapter followed in the wake of adventurous voyagers and explorers prior to the Armada, and recorded the first disastrous experimental efforts towards colonisation; but, in dealing specifically with the seamen, we passed by overland explorations such as those of Jenkinson, who during the first decade of Elizabeth's reign journeyed through Russia, and into Asia over the Caspian sea.
I thanked him and was about to take my leave, for I had some packing to do and some private business to arrange, when a message came from Doctor Jenkinson. Mr. Graham smiled as he read it. "Royce is better," he said; "much better. He's asking for you, and Jenkinson seems to think you'd better go to him, especially if you can bring good news." "Just the thing!" I cried.
Can you tell me, Sophia, my dear, whether you should know him again? 'Indeed, Sir, replied she, 'I can't be positive; yet now I recollect he had a large mark over one of his eye-brows. 'I ask pardon, madam, interrupted Jenkinson, who was by, 'but be so good as to inform me if the fellow wore his own red hair? 'Yes, I think so, cried Sophia.
And, on the third reading of it, it was opposed again; but it was at length carried. The speakers against the bill were; Sir William Yonge, Lord Sheffield, Colonel Tarleton, Alderman Newnham, and Mr. Payne, Este, Lechmere, Cawthorne, Jenkinson, and Dent. Those who spoke in favour of it were; Mr. Pitt, Fox, William Smith, Whitbread, Francis, Burdon, Vaughan, Barham, and Serjeants Watson and Adair.
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