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Besides the above named peninsula, the new settlement comprises other adjoining lands, which were afterwards respectively known by the appellations of Bushy Park, Longfield, Paradise, and New-lands, with some which have not yet received any name, the whole constituting an elevated plain, lying between one and two hundred feet above the level of the sea, and at present thickly covered with timber and jungle.
Just as in a few crises of his life I have seen it, and especially in this one, when he first told to his wife that determination which he had slowly come to that it was both right and expedient for us to quit Longfield, our happy home for so many years, of which the mother loved every flower in the garden, every nook and stone in the walls.
"Leave Longfield!" repeated Mrs. Halifax; "surely surely " But glancing at her husband, her tone of impatience ceased. He sat gazing into the fire with an anxious air. "Don't let us discuss that question at least, not to-night. It troubles you, John. Put it off till to-morrow." No, that was never his habit.
"We shall have Longfield just as full as ever it was, all summer time. But in winter we'll be quiet, and sit by the chimney-corner, and plunge into my dusty desert of books eh, Phineas? You shall help me to make notes for those lectures I have intended giving at Norton Bury, these ten years past. And we'll rub up our old Latin, and dip into modern poetry great rubbish, I fear!
Morrison Another Slave Vessel taken Landing a part of the Slaves Author's Daily Routine Garden of Eden Monstrous Fish Continued Mortality Market at Longfield Monday, 17. After breakfast, Captain Owen sailed in the Victoria for Fernando Po.
The expression of the mouth, as I saw it in profile close and calm almost inclined me to go back to the fanciful follies of our youth, and call him "David." We drove through Norton Bury, and left Mrs. Edwin there. Then on, along the familiar road, towards the manor-house; past the white gate, within sight of little Longfield. "It looks just the same the tenant takes good care of it."
"Yes, I am afraid, after much serious thought on the matter, and much consultation with your mother here, that we ought to leave Longfield." "So I think," said Mistress Maud, from her footstool; which putting forward of her important opinion shook us all from gravity to merriment, that compelled even Mrs. Halifax to join.
A market opened to-day at Longfield, where our people were allowed to purchase what they pleased from the natives, paying a small duty for this privilege to the Colonial Government. Hitherto an officer had been appointed to make the purchases, and distribute the articles, gratis, to the establishment. The following were the rates of the impost: s. d.
She said, she hopes you and she will end your days together at little Longfield." "Did she? Yes, I know that has been always her dream." "Scarcely a dream, or one that is not unlikely to be fulfilled.
When the animal showed a disposition to bite anybody, or crawl away, he subdued it instantly by turning the stick and twisting its tail. Joe Longfield had come with a basket of eggs packed in cotton-seed to exchange for their value in coffee, and the two wags were entertaining the crowd with jokes at the expense of each other.
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