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A tall lanky young man, with a sallow face and sleek black hair, emerged quickly from some door in the obscure background, and asked in a sharp voice what the visitor pleased to want. "I wish to see Mr. Nowell, the writer of a letter addressed to the post-office in Wigmore Street."
You think me weak and foolish; granted that I am both, you cannot cure me of my weakness or my folly." "And am I never to hope that you will find some one else, better worthy of your regard than Marian Nowell?" "I fear not, Belle. For me there is no one else." Mrs. Lister breathed a profound sigh, and resumed the counting of her stitches.
Phillips the minister's wife, the wives of Nowell, Coddington and others made up the group of gentlewomen who dined with Lady Arbella in "the great cabin," the greatness of which will be realized when the reader reflects that the ship was but three hundred and fifty tons burden and could carry aside from the fifty or so sailors, but thirty passengers, among whom were numbered various discreet and reputable "young gentlemen" who, as Winthrop wrote, "behave themselves well, and are conformable to all good orders," one or two of whom so utilized their leisure that the landing found them ready for the marriage bells that even Puritan asceticism still allowed to be rung.
For a moment, she seemed to consider; and then her shrill treble quavered out on the frosty air, my own deeper voice taking up the second line "The first' Nowell' the angel did say Was to certain poor shepherds, in fields as they lay, In fields as they lay, a-tending their sheep, On a cold winters night that was so deep Nowell! Nowell! Christ is born in Israel!"
Dreadful was the momentary suspense. With a cry of rage the elephant threw himself at Dango. The Moor leaped aside, but not far enough to prevent the elephant from knocking him over with his trunk, and putting one of his huge feet on his leg. He would have been killed had not Nowell shouted and shrieked, to draw off the elephant's attention, while he was reloading his rifle.
Hutchinson, Hist. of Mass. i, App. iii. John Cotton, September, 1633; in consultation concerning Roger Williams's denial of the patent, January, 1634; concerning rights of trade at Kennebec, July, 1634; in regard to the fort on Castle Island, August, 1634; concerning the rumor in 1635 of the coming of a Governor-General; and in the case of Mr. Nowell.
On looking down over the now well-trampled sea of lemon grass, we saw in the distance several more elephants. Wishing to rejoin Nowell, and to have another chance of a shot, I descended the hill, followed by Dango. We worked our way up to the spot where our three elephants lay, when my companion shrieked out at the top of his voice "Sahib, sahib, look dere, look dere elephant come!"
"I am glad to hear it," replied Potts, moving the cushions on his chair and eyeing the square-built bottle affectionately. "Nor to-morrow, it may be nor the day after nor at all, possibly," said Nowell. "Indeed!" exclaimed Potts, starting, and wincing with pain. "What is the meaning of all this, worthy sir?"
Soon after this we heard that there was to be held, at the distance of two or three days' journey off from where we then were, a corral or grand elephant hunt. "We will without fail attend it," exclaimed Mr Fordyce. "It is one of the things most worth seeing in Ceylon, and I have not been at one for many years." Of course Nowell and I were delighted to go.
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