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This lady was the daughter of James C. Williams, a large planter; her mother was a Percy, descended from the proud Percys of Northumberland, and was a most accomplished and intellectual woman. Her position was the first among the first, and her birth, blood, and attainments entitled her to the distinction.
Caroline and all her family had pleasure in showing Lady Jane that they felt grateful for her kindness. Mr. Temple obtained permission from Lord Oldborough to accompany the Percys to town; and it was settled that Rosamond and Caroline should be married on the same day. But the morning after their arrival in London, Mr.
The morning of the second day that he was at Percy-hall, M. de Tourville was admiring the Miss Percys' drawings, especially some miniatures of Caroline's, and he produced his snuff-box, to show Mr. Percy a beautiful miniature on its lid. It was exquisitely painted. M. de Tourville offered it to Caroline to copy, and Mrs. Percy urged her to make the attempt.
"They feel that themselves, Roger, and consider the ingratitude of the king to be a punishment upon them, for having aided him to the throne." "But what has this to do with your journey, master?" "It has much to do with it, Roger, seeing that I am on my way to Glendower, to offer him alliance with the Percys." "A good step!" Roger exclaimed. "We know that these Welsh can fight."
Northumberland House, now, and for a long while, the town residence of the Percys, stands on the Strand side, over the entrance a lion, very spiritedly sculptured, flinging out his long tail. On another side of the square is Morley's Hotel, exceedingly spacious, and looking more American than anything else in the hotel line that I have seen here.
This renewed and increased the virulence of his dislike to our branch of the Percys, who, as he knew, were always compared with him and his, and seemed to be for ever present to the provoking memories of these tenants.
Had the Percys been at home, they might have held out, confident that the Scotch would be attacked before they could effect its capture; but as all the northern lords, with their retainers, were away in the south, it would be some time before a force could be collected that could make head against the Scots. A portion of the Scottish army laid siege to the castle of Wark, on the Tweed.
It will be a grief for us to lose masters we love, and to have to pay our quittance with money or service to a new lord; but beyond that, we risk nought save our lives in battle. Therefore I trouble myself, in no way, as to the matter between the Percys and the king, which I take it in no way concerns me; and am content to do my duty, and to render my service, as I have sworn to do."
"Will you return with us to Aberystwith, Sir Oswald?" Glendower presently asked the young knight. "I will ride straight for England, with your permission," Oswald said. "I am already thirty miles on my way, and the Percys urged me to return as soon as possible." "So be it. As soon as we have dined, an officer and four horsemen will be in readiness to ride with you, as an escort."
My name shall live in the memory of man when the titles of the Northumberlands and the Percys are extinct and forgotten." How truly his indignant forecast was prophetic is now a matter of history.
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