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The boys stood up and gazed out to sea, their eyes widening and brightening. 'I say, this is jolly, they murmured, rather than said to any one in particular. 'Hamish, said Allan, who had been looking at some object on the southern side of the island; 'is that your father's gig, that has just stopped before Mrs. Macdonnell's cottage? Hamish looked in the direction indicated.
Her little round face smiled mischievously from between a large white hat and tumbled frock, and she sat swinging her heels in perfect contentment. Jim Macdonnell's duties having brought him to the quarter-deck at this moment, the captain made him a sign almost without pausing in the sentence which he was addressing to Mrs. Stewart.
It far transcends Lord MacDonnell's recent estimate at Belfast of £320,000,000 "an Empire's ransom," as he bluntly put it. Not an Empire's ransom but the sum of an Empire's achievement, the cost of an Empire's founding, and to-day the chief bond of an Empire's existence.
The section of Liberal opinion which adhered rather to Lord Rosebery than to Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman probably drew the conclusion that the Irish party were prepared at least to tolerate the policy of approaching Home Rule step by step; and beyond doubt they were impressed by the prestige of Sir Antony MacDonnell's record and personality.
Essays: by H. James, in Partial Portraits; by Chapman, in Emerson and Other Essays. Hardy. Criticism: Macdonnell's Thomas Hardy; Johnson's The Art of Thomas Hardy. See also Windle's The Wessex of Thomas Hardy; and Dawson's Makers of English Fiction. George Meredith. Criticism: Le Gallienne's George Meredith; Hannah Lynch's George Meredith.
The British Columbia Government did not desire to assist and police detachments could not be spared, hence Macdonnell's trip. It involved a route by saddle horse and pack train of over 1,200 miles, but it was carried out in perfect order.
Macdonnell; for Allan and Hamish are going to try very hard, and Euan will do his best to help us. Mrs. Macdonnell's eyes glistened. 'It iss ferry good of you ahl, I am sure, she said; then after a pause she added, 'Indeed it is proud I am to know that my puir laddie
In a more practical sense, Lord MacDonnell and Lord Dunraven were our chief political theorists, devisers by temperament of constitutional machinery. Lord MacDonnell's repute as an administrator, Lord Dunraven's as a leading figure in the Land Conference, gave weight to whatever came from them.
'She'd be pleased if you'd come and say good evening to her; and Miss Tricksy, you would be seeing the little puffins that Hamish gave you; Mother tells me that they're coming along finely. Mrs. Macdonnell's cottage was not far distant, and the young people accepted Neil's invitation.
Lord Rosebery, in 1894, declared that before Home Rule could be carried England, as the predominant partner, must be convinced. Sir Edward Grey in 1905 declared that his party on its return to power would "go on with Sir Anthony MacDonnell's policy," which he rightly described as a policy of large administrative reforms; and Mr.
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