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Every day furnished some new trait of this kind. On the 14th of April 1816 Sir Hudson Lowe, the new Governor, arrived at St. Helena.
'Well, gentlemen, I've shown fight, eh? and now I suppose you want my watch, and money, and keys eh? 'Read the warrant, Sir, said Lowe, sternly. 'Warrant! hey warrant? why, this is something new will you be so good as to give me a glass of water thank you hold the paper a moment longer I can't get this arm up. With his left hand he set down the tumbler-glass, and then held up the warrant.
But by ordering the claret that the ex-Emperor preferred, and by sending occasional presents of game to Longwood, Lowe sought to keep up the ordinary civilities of life; and when the home Government sought to limit the annual cost of the Longwood household to £8,000, Lowe took upon himself to increase that sum by one half. Napoleon's behaviour in this last affair is noteworthy.
It has also been suggested that Lowe was not a gentleman, and references have been approvingly made to comparisons of his physiognomy with that of the devil, and of his eye with "that of a hyæna caught in a trap."
This Committee was appointed "to consider the state of those British possessions in North America which are under the administration of the Hudson's Bay Company, or over which they possess a licence to trade." Lord John Russell, Mr. Gladstone, the present Lord Derby, Mr. Roebuck, Mr. Labouchere, Mr. Lowe, and Mr.
On the other hand I had, to aid me, Judge Lowe, also a lawyer of high standing, and indeed all the lawyers in the body who were not upon the judiciary committee. The result was that my motion was successful; the bill was taken from the committee and immediately brought under discussion. In reply to the adverse arguments of Judge Folger and Mr.
Not a light, not a lowe " he went on, gazing upward to the frowning walls dark glistening in the rain "and then the bower must out and shine to mind me to mind me ah, Mont-aiglon, my pardons, my regrets! you must be finding me a melancholy host."
Belle was working at the sewing machine in the back room of the Boyd home when there was a familiar knock at the front door. She was not unprepared for it and yet she dreaded this inevitable interview. Lowe had been pointedly cold for some time. He had been to the house only once in the past month and he had made it quite plain that Hartigan was the objectionable figure in the horizon.
Though there was a lurking consciousness in each, which none cared to publish, that there was, at times, an indefinable flavour of burlesque and irony in Mr. Dangerfield's compliments, which excited momentary suspicions and qualms, which the speaker waived off, however, easily with his jewelled fingers, and smiled mockingly away. Lowe was mightily taken with him.
Campbell-Bannerman, and, with these planted between him and actual or aspirant leaders of the Liberal party, sits Mr. Lowe. I cannot see much of his face from here, for he wears his hat and at the moment hangs his head. A little later on I both saw and heard him speak and a splendid speech he made, going right to the heart of the matter, laying it bare.
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