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A laudable act of justice was about this time executed in England upon Lord Sanqubir, a Scottish nobleman, who had been guilty of the base assassination of Turner, a fencing master. * Kennet, p. 688.
She left us at length with a threat that she would bring the officers to take her to jail for stealing. The Kennet came in at 11 o'clock A. M., May 6th, bound for St. Louis, Missouri, and we went aboard. As we pushed out from shore, Delphine clapped her hands. "Now I know Mistress Morehead can trouble me no more; thank God, I've got my Charlie too!
Through West Kennet, where his shadow went long and thin before him; through Fyfield, where he well-nigh ran into a post-chaise, which seemed to be in as great a hurry to go west as he was to go east; under the Devil's Den, and by Clatford cross-lanes, nor drew rein until as the sun sank finally behind him, leaving the downs cold and grey he came in sight of Manton Corner.
So ignorant were the commons, that they knew not this incident to be the first infallible symptom of any regular or established liberty. * 14th of May, 1612. Franklyn, p. 11, 33. * Franklyn, p. 10. Franklyn, p. 49. v Parliament. Hist. vol. v. p. 286. Kennet, p. 696. Journ. 12th April; 2d May, 1614, etc. Franklyn, p. 48. v* Journ. 17th Feb. 1609.
His indulgence to Henry was great, and perhaps imprudent, by giving him a large and independent settlement, even in so early youth. * Kennet, p. 690. Coke, p. 37. Welwood, p. 272 But this marriage, though celebrated with great joy and festivity, proved itself an unhappy event to the king, as well as to his son-in-law, and had ill consequences on the reputation and fortunes of both.
The Saxons had gained the victory, and great numbers of the Danes had been slain, Sidroc, one of their jarls, being among the fallen. Three days later the royal army arrived in sight of Reading, being joined on their march by Aethelwulf and his men. The Danes had thrown up a great rampart between the Thames and the Kennet, and many were still at work on this fortification.
Soane passed through the bustle, and, strolling to the end of the High Street, saw the girl seated on a low parapet of the bridge that, near the end of the inn gardens, carries the Salisbury road over the Kennet. She wore a plain riding-coat, such as ladies then affected when they travelled and would avoid their hoops and patches.
Then the colour ebbed out of their faces, and they encouraged each other feebly in whispers, "Might it not be a mistake?" But unconscious Kennet robbed them of this timid hope. He was now in his element, knew all about it, rushed into details, and sawed away all doubt from their minds. The sum was this. Dodd's general performance was mediocre, but passable; he was plucked for his Logic.
Hardie said he was very sorry for it. "What does it matter?" answered Kennet; "he is a boating-man. "Well, and I am a boating-man. Why, you told me yourself, the other day, poor Dodd was anxious about it on account of his friends. And, by-the-bye, that reminds me they say he has got two pretty sisters here." Says Kennet briskly, "I'll go and tell him; I know him just to speak to."
Much water has run under the bridge that spans the Kennet since Sir George and Julia sat on the parapet and watched the Salisbury coach come in; the bridge that was of wood is of brick but there it is, and the Kennet still flows under it, watering the lawns and flowering shrubs that Lady Hertford loved.
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