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Alsop Hunt, a Quaker, son-in-law of Major Lockwood, and a most quiet and courteous gentleman. With one accord we drew chairs around the handsome centre table, where silver candlesticks glimmered and a few books lay in their fine, gilded bindings. It was very evident to us that in the hands of these five gentlemen lay the present safety of Westchester County, military and civil.
Lockwood labored there thirteen months, and then removed to another field. In his final report, he states that he had ministered to a congregation at Hampton, where the average attendance was four hundred; and to a congregation at Fortress Monroe, where the average attendance was about the same.
'Ay, ay! presented is all very fine; but that won't make him the bridegroom, said she, with a laugh. 'I sincerely trust it will not, madam. 'And it is you, then, are Major Walpole? 'Mr. Walpole, madam my friend Lockwood is the major. 'To be sure. I have it right now. You are the young man that got into that unhappy scrape, and got the Lord-Lieutenant turned away
She opened the door of the cab, and closed it again on Mrs. Ferrari, before the driver could get off his box. 'Take that lady a mile farther on her way home! she said, as she paid the man his fare. The next moment she had knocked at the house-door. 'Is Miss Lockwood at home? 'Yes, ma'am. She stepped over the threshold the door closed on her. 'Which way, ma'am? asked the driver of the cab.
Between you and me, this man we're going to see is the greatest artist in America. I know." Lockwood waved his hand casually as if dismissing once and for all an avalanche of contradictions. Dorn hesitated. It was one of his days of disquiet; and he had left a note with Rachel saying he would be home at eight. It was now six. "If you've got a date," went on Lockwood, "call it off.
I suppose I shall have to live on as many hundreds. 'It can be done. 'Perhaps it may. Have another weed? 'No. I told you already I have begun a tobacco reformation. 'Does she object to the pipe? 'I cannot tell you. The fact is, Lockwood, my future and its fortunes are just as uncertain as your own. This day week will probably have decided the destiny of each of us.
Colonel Sheldon followed him to the doorway, and called after him: "Take a dozen men with you, and meet Colonel Moylan! A dozen will be sufficient, Major!" Then he turned back into the house, saying to Major Lockwood and Mr.
They had been sitting there some time, he with his hands folded on the evening paper and with his eyes closed, when the servant brought in a card and offered it to Mr. Catherwaight. Mr. Catherwaight fumbled over his glasses, and read the name on the card aloud: "'Mr. Lewis L. Lockwood. Dear me!" he said; "what can Mr. Lockwood be calling upon me about?"
One name was in my mind, and before I knew it I had spoken it. "Lockwood?" I queried inadvertently. Her eyes met mine in sharp defiance. "Impossible," she exclaimed. "It is some one trying to injure him with me. Beware of Mr. Lockwood? How absurd!" Yet it must have meant Lockwood. No one else could have been meant. It was he, most of all, who might be called a friend of her father.
It was not easy to throw Francis off his balance, but that extraordinary question did it. 'How the devil did you know that Miss Lockwood was coming to Venice? he exclaimed. She laughed a bitter mocking laugh. 'Say, I guessed it! Something in her tone, or perhaps something in the audacious defiance of her eyes as they rested on him, roused the quick temper that was in Francis Warwick.
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