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The Merediths will be off at twelve, and then we can have an hour together." Mark said he would, and then went home with his wife under his arm. "Well, now, is not she kind?" said Fanny, as soon as they were out on the gravel together. "She is kind; kinder than I can tell you just at present. But did you ever know anything so bitter as she is to the poor bishop?
I warn you both that I have in my possession your signed oaths of allegiance to King George, and if you dare to push your persecution of the Merediths I'll ride from one end of Middlesex County to t' other, and prove to your constituents what kind of Whigs you are, over your own hands and seals." He took the two bridles and walked toward the tavern.
"It puzzles me, too," Nora agreed, "I keep thinking that maybe I'll wake up directly and find I've been dreaming." "And we thought Land's End was going to be the end of everything! The old place holds a mystery, and I can't but wonder what it is." The undercurrent of excitement was thrilling to the Merediths, as their thoughts turned to Aunt Janice's parting injunction about the tower room.
"The Merediths are here," and continued her satisfying scrutiny of persons seated around. Isabel herself had no sooner suffered the words to escape than she regretted them. Resolved to control herself from this time on, she unclasped her prayer-book, found the appointed reading, and directed her thoughts to the service soon to begin.
It is to the Desmonds and Merediths of an earlier day that we are indebted for the sturdy loyalty of our Punjab and Frontier troops, for our hold upon the fighting races of the North. India may have been won by the sword, but it has been held mainly by attributes of heart and spirit; by individual strength of purpose, capacity for sympathy and devotion to the interests of those we govern.
The home of the Merediths lay in a region of fertile lands adapted alike to tillage and to pasturage.
The Merediths go on Monday; and Justinia won't be happy if you are not with her." It would be unjust to say that Lady Lufton had determined not to invite the Robartses if she were not allowed to have her own way about Sarah Thompson. But such would have been the result. As it was, however, she was all kindness; and when Mrs.
Although Gwladys's mistaken interference had caused her such deep sorrow, and such a bitter experience as that of Cardo's avoidance of her at the Merediths, she felt nothing but pity for the sister whom she knew would have sacrificed life itself to save her from trouble.
Keenly desirous as the Merediths were for the well-being of the Riedesels, it was impossible for them not to feel a pang of regret when, one morning, the baroness broke the news to them that Washington had yielded to her prayer, that her husband and General Phillips had at last been exchanged, and that they were to set out within the week for New York.
"Then you'll come another day," Jerry proposed, "and Marty and I can go along too; I'm sure Grandfather will be willing." Another happy hour slipped by, and then the Merediths knew their time was really up. "I just wish you could all live here," Marty's eyes were beginning to look cloudy. "We'll come soon again, and of course you and Jerry are to be guests at the party, whenever it comes off."
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