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Pray your honour, continued he to Sir William, 'can the 'Squire have this lady's fortune if he be married to another? 'How can you make such a simple demand, replied the Baronet, 'undoubtedly he cannot. 'I am sorry for that, cried Jenkinson; 'for as this gentleman and I have been old fellow spotters, I have a friendship for him.
This valley, which extends to the S.W. and W.S.W., has been named 'Hawkesbury Vale, and the highest point of the range, bearing N.W. by W. from this tree, was called 'Mount Jenkinson, the one a former title, and the other the family name of the noble earl whose present title the plains bear, and which, from the southern country, this gap affords the only passage likely to be discovered.
The old marchese, you see, would have no objection to leaving his daughter for hours under the care of an English lady; and I thought that perhaps when Miss Jenkinson went out to work at her painting I might come in."
The scene closes with his bidding her reflect on it, and remember the one condition of her release. Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson, now reduced to believe that he burns to be free, is then called in for an interview with Clara. His aunts Eleanor and Isabel besiege her. Laetitia in passionate earnest besieges her. Her father is wrought on to besiege her.
It is as marked as Meredith's, and it is much of the same kind; like that writer's great lady, Mrs. Mountstuart Jenkinson, he preferred persons "that shone in the sun." This had nothing whatever to do with qualities of the heart; it was all an æsthetic predilection.
Jenkinson, an English traveller, made his way to Bokhara. Willoughby brought back Muscovy to the knowledge of Western Europe. English mariners penetrated among the Esquimaux, or settled in Virginia. Drake circumnavigated the globe.
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.
"We're off!" said Mr. Pepper. Other ships, as sad as she, answered her outside on the river. The chuckling and hissing of water could be plainly heard, and the ship heaved so that the steward bringing plates had to balance himself as he drew the curtain. There was a pause. "Jenkinson of Cats d'you still keep up with him?" asked Ambrose. "As much as one ever does," said Mr. Pepper.
In consideration of that purpose, friends and kinsmen, I ask you to join me in drinking the good health of my host Senor Jenkinson, my future father-in-law, from whom I have to-day had the honor to demand the hand of the peerless Polly, his daughter, as the future mistress of the Rancho of the Blessed Innocents." The marriage took place shortly after.
In answer to his inquiry the native clerk, looking at him curiously, said that Mr. Jenkinson was not there, was not even in Karachi. At this Smith looked blank. "Your name, sir, is Lieutenant Smith?" said the clerk politely, but with an air of doubt. "It is." "Then I tell you what, sir. Cable came yesterday for Mr. Jenkinson.
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