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'Twelve months ago he was mate of the brig Pewit; but his father has made money, and keeps him at home. 'Faith, now you tell of it, there's a hint of sea legs about him. What's the young beau's name? 'Don't tell! whispered Matilda, impulsively clutching Festus's arm. But Festus had already said, 'Robert Loveday, son of the miller at Overcombe.
Anne wore her celebrated celestial blue pelisse, her Leghorn hat, and her muslin dress with the waist under the arms; the latter being decorated with excellent Honiton lace bought of the woman who travelled from that place to Overcombe and its neighbourhood with a basketful of her own manufacture, and a cushion on which she worked by the wayside.
His immediate father had greatly improved the value of their residence by building a new chimney, and setting up an additional pair of millstones. Overcombe Mill presented at one end the appearance of a hard-worked house slipping into the river, and at the other of an idle, genteel place, half- cloaked with creepers at this time of the year, and having no visible connexion with flour.
Thus, with one and another, courtship began to be practised in Overcombe on rather a large scale, and the dispossessed young men who had been born in the place were left to take their walks alone, where, instead of studying the works of nature, they meditated gross outrages on the brave men who had been so good as to visit their village.
It was not because of any rumour of the French, for we knew nothing of that till we met the people on the road, and the colonel said in a moment the news was false. Buonaparte is not even at Boulogne just now. I was anxious to know how you had borne the fright, so I hastened to Overcombe at once, as soon as I could get out of barracks.
Arriving again within five miles of Overcombe, he at length heard tidings of the wandering vehicle and its precious burden, which, like the Ark when sent away from the country of the Philistines, had apparently been left to the instincts of the beast that drew it. A labouring man, just at daybreak, had seen the helpless party going slowly up a distant drive, which he pointed out.
Wood, bookseller, who carried the great work to a successful conclusion." Sutton Poyntz, in a charming situation between spurs of the hills, has been spoilt by the erection of the Weymouth Waterworks. This is the "Overcombe" of Hardy's Trumpet Major. Chalbury Camp, to the west of the village, is a prehistoric hill fort with traces of pit-dwellings within the entrenchment.
The servant went away for a few minutes, and then told Bob that he might see the captain in the morning. 'If that's the case, I'll come again, replied Bob, quite cheerful that failure was not absolute. He had left the door but a few steps when he was called back and asked if he had walked all the way from Overcombe Mill on purpose. Loveday replied modestly that he had done so.
'Is your watering-place a large city? she inquired when they mounted the hill where the Overcombe folk had waited for the King. 'Bless you, my dear no! 'Twould be nothing if it wasn't for the Royal Family, and the lords and ladies, and the regiments of soldiers, and the frigates, and the King's messengers, and the actors and actresses, and the games that go on.
'Whatever do I see yonder a row of white things on the down? 'Yes, that's a part of the encampment above Overcombe. Lots of soldiers are encamped about here; those are the white tops of their tents. He pointed to a wing of the camp that had become visible. Matilda was much interested. 'It will make it very lively for us, he added, 'especially as John is there.
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