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Thus with the tremendous opposition formed to his government in the States-General, the incessant bickerings with the Norrises, the peculations of the treasurer, the secret negotiations with Spain, and the impossibility of obtaining money from home for himself or for his starving little army, the Earl was in anything but a comfortable position.
Thus with the tremendous opposition formed to his government in the States-General, the incessant bickerings with the Norrises, the peculations of the treasurer, the secret negotiations with Spain, and the impossibility of obtaining money from home for himself or for his starving little army, the Earl was in anything but a comfortable position.
The train-bands of the cities were aided in their struggles against Spanish pikemen and artillerists, Italian and Albanian cavalry by the German riders, whom every little potentate was anxious to sell to either combatant according to the highest bid, and by English mercenaries, whom the love of adventure or the hope of plunder sent forth under such well-seasoned captains as Williams and Morgan, Vere and the Norrises, Baskerville and Willoughby.
I don't know whether you'd better go to the Norrises; I don't think there's anybody there but the cook, or whether you'd better make straight for home and get your father to come." "I'll do both! I can run, if I can't row!" and Dotty flew off like a deer up the hill toward the Norris camp. Dolly stepped into the boat and shipped the oars. It was a large flat-bottomed boat and the oars were heavy.
'Here we are, general. Then all the Norrises pressed round the general, inquiring how and where he had been since the date of his letter, and how he had enjoyed himself in foreign parts, and particularly and above all, to what extent he had become acquainted with the great dukes, lords, viscounts, marquesses, duchesses, knights, and baronets, in whom the people of those benighted countries had delight.
Yet there is no doubt whatever that the Earl who detested the Norrises, and was fonder of Pelham than of any man living uniformly narrated the story most unjustly, to the discredit of the young Captain.
'Ah! cried Mr Norris the father, giving his head a melancholy shake, and looking towards Martin as though he would say, 'I can't deny it, sir. I would if I could. 'The limited diffusion of a moral sense in that country! exclaimed the general. 'The absence of a moral dignity in man! 'Ah! sighed all the Norrises, quite overwhelmed with despondency.
"Elsie," he said abruptly, "what ever became of your niece?" She looked up in surprise. "You mean Harriet White? She's living with the Norrises in Prairieville." "Wouldn't you like to have her here?" he asked suddenly. "It doesn't seem just right decent to let strangers look after your own relations." Her eyes opened wider. He had never seemed to think whether it was decent or not until now.
"The declaration of the two Norrises for the cartel is most false, as I am a Christian," he said to Walsingham. "I have a dozen witnesses, as good and some better than they, who will testify that they were present when I misliked the writing of the letter before ever I saw it.
Mary, I hope you will walk over to see after him. Nothing would be so good for him as walking you back, and staying to dinner with you. Go right into the library; he would be greatly pleased. Can't you make some book excuse? And you have the cottages to see. The people inaugurated the boilers with Christmas puddings. 'Mr. Holdsworth told us how pleased they were. And the Norrises? 'Mrs.
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