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When the academical course was completed, Commodore Waugh, as has been seen, was at some pains to give Cloudy a fair start in life, and for the first time condescended to use his influence with "the Department" to procure a favor in the shape of a midshipman's warrant for Cloudesley Mornington. In the meantime old Mr.
"We can't talk here," said Eve, turning away. "Come into a quieter place." They walked in silence to the foot of High Street, and there turned aside into the shadowed solitude of Mornington Crescent. Eve checked her steps and said abruptly "I want to ask you for something." "What is it?" "Now that it comes to saying it, I I'm afraid.
Mornington left England for America. Five years later they were rich. Mr. Mornington died in 1878; but his widow continued to administer the fortune bequeathed to her and, as she had a genius for business and speculation, she increased this fortune until it attained a colossal figure. At her decease, in 1900, she left her son the sum of four hundred million francs."
I have the honour to be, &c. "GRENVILLE. "Dated Whitehall, Jan. 4, 1793." On the opening of Parliament, in January 1794, a debate of great importance commenced on the policy of the war. On this occasion, Lord Mornington and Sheridan took the lead in the debate, and both made speeches of great effect.
Lord Mornington has set his face against sports, gaming, horse-racing, and working on the Lord's-day; in consequence of which these infamous practices are less common than formerly." The missionaries, too, had at first been reported not as Baptist but as "Papist," and the emissaries of France, believed to be everywhere, must be watched against.
My Uncle Joe, who inherited my grandfather's business-sense, with none of his crookedness, started out as a newsboy, worked his way up to half-proprietorship in a Mornington paper ... the last I heard of him he had money invested in nearly every enterprise in town, and had become a substantial citizen.
That incident gave him an unshakable confidence in my little detective talents. He was always saying, 'Perenna, if I die murdered' he had a fixed notion in his head that he would meet with a violent death 'if I die murdered, swear that you will pursue the culprit," "His presentiment was not justified," said the Prefect of Police. "Cosmo Mornington was not murdered."
Through the patronage of his eldest brother, who became Earl of Mornington on his father's death, in 1781, the young Arthur Wellesley entered the Army as an ensign in the Seventy-third Foot. The same influence that had got him into the army aided him to rise in it.
"'You don't know your own power, said Dinah; 'beauty is stronger than rank and fortune, and you are still handsome enough to do a deal of mischief among the men, if you only set about it in the right way. "'Peace! mother. I need none of your teaching. I learned to love Mornington, and ceased to love Sir Alexander.
And as he ran his fingers along the three lines of union, the boy's thoughts went back to the scene that evening at Mornington Crescent, when the big china vase was dragged down, to break to shivers in the hall. "And Sam said I broke that, just as David says I broke this, and all to escape blame.
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