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He's a temper, but if things go favourably, no animal that ever showed on the Downs was more likely to do the trick. Is there any gentleman here who would like to bet me fifteen to one in hundreds against the two events, the Derby and the Leger?" The desired odds were at once offered by Mr. Lupton, and the bet was booked.
She wished it was she who lay there, unconscious of such exceeding wretchedness, and, strange to say, her imagination began to devise all that would be said were it really so; what all her acquaintance would say of the little Queen Bee, how soon Matilda St. Leger would forget her, how long Henrietta would cherish the thought of her, how deeply and silently Alex would grieve.
In pursuance of this characteristic of mind, he had resolved to fall in love with Miss Isabel St. Leger; for she being very dependent, he could boast to her of his disinterestedness, and hope that she would be economical through a principle of gratitude; and being the nearest relation to the opulent General St.
Leger coming from Oswego and following the Mohawk River. A third army under Sir William Howe could ascend the Hudson and meet Burgoyne and St. Leger at the general rendezvous Albany. It was a brave plan, and when Burgoyne started with his force of eight thousand men high hopes flushed the British hearts. These hopes seemed to be confirmed when a month later Burgoyne took Ticonderoga.
But the German officers would not believe what we said respecting the resources of the besieged; they repeated the same questions again and again, and still looked incredulous, as if, indeed, they thought that we were fooling them. At Boissy-Saint Leger we halted whilst the British, Austrian, and Swiss representatives interviewed the general in command there.
Sir Anthony St. Leger, created deputy in August, 1540, was thought a likely man to be intrusted with so delicate a mission. He conducted it with political prudence, that is to say, with a judicious mixture of kindness and fraud, which succeeded beyond all expectations.
Nevertheless he felt convinced of the facts, knowing Juliet had gone there with unkindness in her heart. By his repeated questionings she admitted all, but he fully forgave her, considering the good results of her thoughtless action. On the day following this domestic breeze and subsequent calm, Philip St. Leger had arrived from the Orient.
One of them has a little bill for fifty pounds coming due in a fortnight, and t'other well, he wagered me a hundred pounds on a horse that never ran for the Leger, and he's got one or two trifles besides down in my books." "Yes, I got you that tip about the Leger," said Durfy, beginning to think himself neglected in this dialogue of self-congratulation.
"If you were a good man you would ask me to marry you now." "I will if you like, but the truth is that I have only three pounds in the world. I have been unlucky lately " "You think of nothing but that wicked betting. Come, let me pass; I'm not going to listen to a lot of lies." "After the Leger " "Let me pass. I will not speak to you."
"The count could appoint Monsieur Margueron's son, and you haven't any place to give, remember that," said the inn-keeper. "Of course I do; but if the count has the ministry on his side, I have King Louis XVIII.," said Pere Leger, in a low voice.
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