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What can you be thinking of?" "I spoke to the poulterer on the subject, sir; he constantly brings me down fowls, and he tells me that they kill each other fighting." "Fighting! never heard of fowls fighting in a coop before. They must be all game fowls." "That they are, most of them," said Mr Petres; "I have often seen them fighting when I have been on the poop."
Here is one of a supper-party in 1781: "We had a pretty group of Papists Lord Petres at the head of them some Papists reformed, and one Jew. A club that used to be quite intolerable is now becoming tolerating and agreeable, and Scotchmen are naturalized and received with great good humour. The people are civil, not one word of party, no personal reflections."
Lieutenant Winterbottom and half of his party were now seized with a fit of coughing. "Confound it! shut pans handle upon my soul I'm choked." "This is most excessively disagreeable," observed Mr Petres; "I made up my mind to be tarred when I came on board, but I had no idea that we should be feathered." "Support d n it, there's no supporting this!" cried Captain Majoribanks.
Sometimes, indeed, the head of an old and respectable provincial family might reflect with bitterness that he was excluded, on account of his religion, from places of honour and authority which men of humbler descent and less ample estate were thought competent to fill: but he was little disposed to risk land and life in a struggle against overwhelming odds; and his honest English spirit would have shrunk with horror from means such as were contemplated by the Petres and Tyrconnels.
"Captain Majoribanks, whom I ought to apologise to for not having introduced first." "Not at all, major: you just heard the brevet rank which Winterbottom's baggage has procured him." "Not the first time a man has obtained rank through his `baggage," observed one of the officers, sotto voce. "Mr Ansell, Mr Petres, Mr Irving."
Lieutenant Winterbottom and half of his party were now seized with a fit of coughing. "Confound it! shut pans handle upon my soul I'm choked." "This is most excessively disagreeable," observed Mr Petres; "I made up my mind to be tarred when I came on board, but I had no idea that we should be feathered." "Support damn it, there's no supporting this!" cried Captain Majoribanks.
What can you be thinking of?" "I spoke to the poulterer on the subject, sir: he constantly brings me down fowls, and he tells me that they kill each other fighting." "Fighting! never heard of fowls fighting in a coop before. They must be all game fowls." "That they are, most of them," said Mr Petres; "I have often seen them fighting when I have been on the poop." "So have I," continued Ansell?
No. 4, why don't you draw up the heel of your right leg level with the other? Recollect now, when you shoulder arms, to throw your muskets up smartly. Shoulder as you were the word shoulder is only a caution; shoulder arms. Dress up a little, No. 8, and don't stick your stomach out in that way." Mr Ansell and Mr Petres had two fatigue parties on the poop, without muskets.
I observed that in passing each other very close the Duke of Wellington and the Duke of Cumberland took no notice of each other. Lord Durham said to me, 'Now the King will turn you all out in revenge as soon as he can, to which I assented. He certainly will when he dares. The Duke of Norfolk and Mr. Petres were in the House, giving and receiving congratulations. All parties congratulate the Duke.
A shaft in the cellar is supposed to be one of the means of exit from "the dining-room," and at the back of the house a subterranean passage may still be traced a considerable distance under the terrace. An interesting discovery was made some years ago at Ingatestone Hall, Essex, the ancient seat of the Petres. The late Rev.
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