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There was, needless to say, great excitement in Leith over Mr. Crewe's proposed venture into the unknown seas of politics. I mean, of course, that portion of Leith which recognized in Mr.
There can be no one who has stood upon one of the great heights of the Downs north and south, upon Ditchling Beacon, Chanctonbury or Leith Hill, who, looking across the Weald, has not wondered what this country, lying between the two great chalk ranges, might be, what is its nature and its history and what part it has played in the great story of England.
I may as well say here that she had borne the marches quite as well as I did, if not in some cases better. Three colliers had been contracted with to convey our regiment to Scotland, and from the appearance of the vessels themselves, I very much doubted, if bad weather should set in, that we should ever reach Leith, the port we set sail for, they being the rickettiest old watertubs I ever saw.
"Do you know what we're after?" he queried hoarsely. "It's a scientific expedition," I replied. "That's what you and Captain Newmarch told me, and I have not questioned any one else." "But do you know the particular line we are after?" "No," I replied. "Well, we're after skulls. Leith has told the Professor about some ancient boneyard that he knows of, and he's dragging old Herndon down there."
"But what will happen to the girls?" "Will our death prevent it?" I snapped. "If we rush after him in the open we'll throw our chances away." I am a sailor, absolutely ignorant of jungle knowledge, but I had sense enough to know that Leith would not leave his rear exposed for a moment after he had received word from the cave.
I shall be extremely anxious to hear from you how your health goes on; if it is in any way re-establishing, or if Leith promises well; in short, how you feel in the inner man. No news worth anything; only godly Bryan was in the inquisition yesterday, and half the countryside as witnesses against him.
Two days later, at breakfast-time, Rosamund received the following letter, written on paper scented with "Wood violet": "HOTEL PALACE-BY-THE-SEA, BOURNEMOUTH, Thursday "MY DEAR MRS. LEITH, I have received your two or is it three? charming letters recently written, suggesting a renewal of the lease of Little Cloisters beyond September. At first I hesitated.
It seemed to me that she suspected my near presence, and that she was singing to guide me to the spot where the party had camped. Five minutes afterward Kaipi and I stumbled into the circle of light round the fire, and Leith sprang to his feet with a growl of rage. "What's this?" he cried. "Who the devil gave you permission to come here?"
Miller, while acting as his chief draughtsman in connection with the triple and twin ships, and also while attending him at Leith and elsewhere, that it had considerably interfered with his practice; though everything was done by him con amore, in the best sense of the term. In return for this, however, Mr.
Hertford, abandoning the usual methods of English invaders, came by sea, took Leith, burned Edinburgh, and ravaged the Lothians.
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