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Upon seeing us he ran off shouting, and decamped with a number of his companions, who were at a little distance. The horse I was riding Turpin, an old police-horse from Northam evidently well understood running down a native, and between us we soon overtook our black friend and brought him to bay.
One lady only, wrapped close in her black muffler and followed by her maid, walked swiftly, yet sadly, toward the long causeway and bridge which led to Northam town. Sir Richard Grenville and his wife caught her up and stopped her courteously. "You will come home with us, Mrs. Leigh," said Lady Grenville, "and spend a pleasant Christmas night?" Mrs.
When the coffin was landed and lifted, Amyas and his friends took their places behind it as chief mourners, and the crew followed in order, while the crowd fell in behind them, and gathered every moment; till ere they were halfway to Northam town, the funeral train might number full five hundred souls.
But he carried off with him, nevertheless, one of the handsomest mantles, which, instead of selling it, he converted cleverly enough into an altar-cloth; and for several years afterwards, the communion at Northam was celebrated upon a blaze of emerald, azure, and crimson, which had once adorned the sinful body of some Aztec prince.
The crops in the Northam, Toodyay, and York districts though inferior to those of the midland counties of England, for want of manure, and a more careful system of husbandry are extremely fine; and there is land enough, if cultivated, to supply the whole of the southern hemisphere with grain.
There are villages dotted all over this part of the country, right down to the sea. "'Renwick and Deanwick, Bessmoor and Ling, Northam and Southam lie all in a ring, as the country-people say about here. Eastminster is over there " again she pointed. "On fine days you can see the spire of the cathedral, but not from here from a point about two miles further across Bessmoor.
Then they seriously devoted themselves to cheering till the brakes were hustled off the premises in dumb-show. "Didn't I say I'd get even with him?" said Stalky on the box-seat, as they swung into the narrow Northam street.
"Northam, near Bideford, "19th May, 1890. "My dear Friend, "The chief want of Cornwall, I was told by an old resident, is soil; the rock is too near the surface. Herein art will do much in a few generations. Attica and Palestine stony soils bore plentiful pine fruit. Our Channel Islands utter the same thing. In England the landlord is the effectual starver of the soil.
Dempster, Clarkson, and Harper started from Northam to make one more trial to the east to get through the dense scrubs and the salt-lake country into a more promising region. It was purely a private expedition; one of those that have done so much of the work of discovery in Australia; each member of the party found his own horses and equipment.
Leigh, and then takes the gift, and puts it away never to look at it again. For her whole soul is set upon being an English maid; and she runs about all day long after Mrs. Leigh, insisting upon learning the mysteries of the kitchen and the still-room, and, above all, the art of making clothes for herself, and at last for everybody in Northam. For first, she will be a good housewife, like Mrs.
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