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"This accident," he writes, June 17, 1645, three days after the Battle, "is like to change much the face of affairs here. But early in September they raised the siege, Leven pleading that he had not received the promised support and was unable to remain.
You say a man dug this plate up; what if some woman should go to diggin' and find a plate provin' that one woman ort to have 'leven husbands?" "Oh, no!" sez the man in deep scorn, "no such plate could be found!" The wimmen all looked as if they would kinder like to see such dishes, but they all sez faintly, "We don't spoze that it could be found."
I wasn't going to Tommy he's in the yard round the corner there with the big boys he's 'leven he's my greatest brother he's a drefful wicked boy " Molly was going on with the bean-story very likely, but at that moment the funeral procession of a baby carriage and two followers filed up.
"I can't change my 'things'! I've got just twenty minutes to get to May Parcher's the crowd meets there, and they're goin' to take the trolley in front the Parchers' at exactly a quarter after 'leven. PLEASE don't keep me any longer, mother I GOT to go!" She stepped into the hall and returned immediately. "Here's your overcoat, Willie." His expression was of despair.
Charles soon discovered that he was a prisoner, and when, to make the experiment, he undertook to give the word to the guard, he was interrupted by Leven, who said: "I am the older soldier, sir: your majesty had better leave that office to me." For ten days the public mind in the capital had been The first and most important was the engagement of the 1st of April.
Miss Raeburn was called away to find an arm-chair for some dowager of importance; Marcella took advantage of the break and of the end of a dance to hurry down the room to Mary. Aldous, who was talking to old Sir Charles Leven, Frank's father, a few steps off, nodded and smiled to her as he saw her move. "Have you been dancing, Mary?" she said severely. "I wouldn't for worlds!
God bless you! she says to her. An' when I looked at 'Leven, I see the 'Huh? look wasn't there at all. But they was a little somethin' on her face like she was proud, an' didn't quite want to show it along of her features or complexion or somethin' never havin' had it spread on 'em before. "Nex' mornin' o' course 'Leven put on the shroud again.
"When his Majesty's ships, the Leven and the Barracouta, employed in surveying the coast of Africa, were at Mozambique, in 1823, the officers were introduced to the family of Senor Manuel Pedro d'Almeydra, a native of Portugal, who was a considerable merchant settled on that coast; and it was an opinion agreed in by all, that Donna Sophia d'Almeydra was the most superior woman they had seen since they left England, Captain Owen, the leader of the expedition, expressing to Senor d'Almeydra his detestation of slavery, the Senor replied, 'You will not be long here before you change your sentiments.
Yet although they were kept in their purest strain in Argyllshire, they are still to be found all along the west coast of Scotland, good specimens belonging to Ross-shire, to Skye, and at Ballachulish on Loch Leven, so that it is a breed with a long pedigree and not an invented breed of the present day.
A friendly observer would have thought that she was trying to make a stranger feel more at ease in this house and circle, where she herself was a familiar guest. Betty Leven, catching sight of the pair from the other side of the room, said to herself, with inward amusement, that Marcella was "realising the wife."
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