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"You've seen so many pretty faces, Steele, and you've associated with them so long that one up here isn't going to turn your head. Now " MacGregor hesitated, and laughed. The flush grew deeper in his cheeks, and he looked again at the photograph. "I'm going to be frank with you," he went on.
Two years previously a few of her friends in Calabar, official and missionary, had talked over the possibility of securing some public recognition of her unique service. Mr. Macgregor wrote an account of her life-work for the Government, but it was not until Sir Frederick Lugard arrived as Governor-General of the united provinces of Northern and Southern Nigeria that action was taken.
"A fellow can buck up even in present circumstances after being penned up by a mob of rascally Huns." "What happened to you?" asked Dudley. Rupert shrugged his bent shoulders. "Don't ask me," he replied. "Some day I'll tell you if we get out of this scrap." "Did you hear what became of Robert MacGregor?" persisted Dudley. "A thundering good old pal!" declared his brother heartily.
'Gor, I never seen as much pastries in a' ma born days no but what I'm ready to dae ma bit. Just then Christina entered, remarking: 'It's an awfu' job tryin' to sell what a person doesna want to a person that wants what ye ha'ena got; but I done it this time. Evenin', Mac. Mr. Thomson, I am delighted to meet ye. 'Aw, murmured Willie helplessly. 'Dinna terrify him, Macgregor whispered.
Stanton is not at the Royal. I have been informed he is in this building somewhere." "In this building?" murmured Smiley, in a puzzled tone. "In this building?" He glanced up at the ceiling as if expecting to see the missing man there. "Strange," he continued. "Now, I have been here for some time, for hours, indeed. I am a busy man, Mr. "Macgregor," replied Shock. "Mr. Macgregor.
I'll be the first he'll go for," said Ralph, in broad vernacular; "he used to like me, but now that he's taken on to drink I feel that he wants to kill me." At midnight on the fourth day from sailing Ralph had just relieved the wheel, and Macgregor had come on deck, and commenced to walk the quarterdeck in his usual dignified style.
The constabulary are enlisted without any consideration of creed, but when Sir Duncan MacGregor was at the head of the force he arranged that of the five men in every police barrack, two should be Protestant, and three Roman Catholic, or vice-versa. This check has subsequently been swept away, by no means to the advantage of the service.
"Ye eh? why, I do b'lieve it's Mr Macgregor," cried the astonished Bounce as the reckless rider dashed up to the camp fire, and, springing from his horse with a yell that savoured more of a savage than a civilised spirit, cried "Look out, lads; up with a pile o' rocks an' trees! They'll be on us in a jiffy! There's five hundred o' the red reptiles if there's one.
He was one of that wretched class of human beings who, having run a long course of unbridled wickedness, become total wrecks in body and mind long before the prime of manhood has been passed. Macgregor had been a confirmed drunkard for many years.
After a delay, which may have been protracted by the negotiations of James for delivering up Allan Breck Stewart upon promise of his brother's life, Robin Oig, on the 24th of December 1753, was brought to the bar of the High Court of Justiciary, and indicted by the name of Robert MacGregor, alias Campbell, alias Drummond, alias Robert Oig; and the evidence led against him resembled exactly that which was brought by the Crown on the former trial.
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