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"No, sir." said the man, looking a little puzzled; "I never was here till the day before yesterday in my born days. We bees from England." "We!" "That is, I and master that is, master and I." Ormond grew pale; but the groom saw nothing of it his eyes had fixed upon Ormond's horse. "A very fine horse this of yours, sir, for sartain, if he could but stand, sir; he's main restless at a door.
I got a bight around Ormond's shoulders, and after some difficulty fastened it. One cannot use ordinary knots on hide. Ready hands gathered in the slack, and my rival was drawn up swiftly, while they guided him diagonally around instead of under the jutting shelf from which we had fallen.
There was something very pathetic in her absolute conviction that Ormond's happiness was an emanation from the source of all happiness, such as sometimes, where the consciousness persists, comes to a death-bed. That the dying are not afraid of dying is a fact of such common, such almost invariable observation "
A thought had crossed Ormond's mind which recurred at this instant.
Thence to Faythorne, and bought a head or two; one of them my Lord of Ormond's, the best I ever saw, and then to Arundell House, where first the Royall Society meet, by the favour of Mr. Harry Howard, who was there, and has given us his grandfather's library, a noble gift, and a noble favour and undertaking it is for him to make his house the seat for this college.
I thought he was out of danger when I came down last night, so said nothing about it to Harold." "Was he taken home?" asked Gwynne, whose eyes had never left Ormond's face. "No to Raglin's room up-stairs. The dinner was at the Club." "I cannot understand why his family was not summoned at the last!" exclaimed Lady Victoria. "Well, there's only the old duke and Harold, you see.
With Lord Leven at its head, it crossed the Border in January "in a great frost and snow"; and Newcastle, who was hoping to be reinforced by detachments from Ormond's army, was forced to hurry northward single-handed to arrest its march. He succeeded in checking Leven at Sunderland, but his departure freed the hands of Fairfax, who in spite of defeat still clung to the West-Riding.
Charles cut the knot in his own fashion. Tired of Ormond's discretion and Ormond's inconvenient sense of honour, he secretly sent over Edward Somerset, Earl of Glamorgan, to make terms with the Confederates, who, excited at finding themselves the last hope and mainstay of an embarrassed king stood out for higher and higher conditions.
He's got a mind that splays all over the place if you give him the least chance. Now, Wanhope, come down to business." Wanhope laughed amiably. "Why, there's so very little of the business. I'm not sure that it wasn't Mrs. Ormond's attitude toward the fact that interested me most. It was nothing short of devout. She was a convert.
Neither do I know what she wore, beyond that the fabric's color was of the ruddy gold one sees among the stems of ripening grain, while wheat ears nestled between her neck and shoulder, and rustled like barley rippling to the breeze, as with the music embodied in each movement of her form she whirled by us on Ormond's arm.
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