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For this purpose he and Ivan set out alone, with only a negro for their guide; the planter being engaged, visiting his different friends, and warning them for the grand hunt. Pouchskin remained behind. He had been left at the house to do some necessary repairs to the travelling traps both of himself and his young masters, which, after their long South American expedition, needed looking to.
Two remained at Natchez, one at Bayou Sara, in Louisiana, and the fourth went to New Orleans. All became distinguished: three as lawyers, who honored the Bench in their respective localities, and the fourth as a merchant and planter accumulated an immense fortune. The planters almost universally resided upon their plantations, and their habits were rural and temperate.
Suddenly there would be a short, throaty laugh behind our backs, and Williams would begin, "I say, Kemp; do you call to mind so-and-so?" Invariably some planter or merchant in Jamaica. I never could.
John Marshall was born in Fauquier County, Virginia, on the 24th of September, 1755. He was the oldest of a family of fifteen children, and was the son of Colonel Thomas Marshall, a planter of moderate fortune. During the Revolution, Colonel Marshall commanded a regiment of Virginia troops, and won considerable distinction at the battles of the Great Bridge, Germantown, Brandywine, and Monmouth.
An observer, viewing this house from a distance, would take it for the residence of a wealthy planter; on a nearer inspection, however, it would not pass for that. There were no rows of negro cabins, no great sugar-mills, nor tobacco-warehouses, such as are always to be seen near the planter's dwelling.
It would be strange indeed if you were to be staying at any house but mine while you are in London.” As he saw that the planter would not hear of a refusal, Will gladly accepted the invitation, and, taking a fly, drove to the hotel, paid his bill, and took his things away. “I won’t ask you for your story till after dinner,” Mr.
The minister made him no answer, he thoroughly disapproved of the planter. It was well that Betty should have a proper protector, this half-brother was hardly that measured by any standard. Norton, leading the horses, had reached the edge of the oaks when from the silent depths of the denser woods came the sharp report of a rifle.
You look for all the world like an old Southern planter, a regular Carolina or Virginia planter." The great suffering of the soldiers and their heroic fortitude move him deeply. He says to his mother: "Nothing of ordinary misfortune seems as it used to, and death itself has lost all its terrors; I have seen so many cases in which it was so welcome and such a relief."
Proclamation was accordingly made throughout England, inviting "younger brothers of good families" to undertake the plantation of Desmond each planter to obtain a certain scope of land, on condition of settling thereupon so many families "none of the native Irish to be admitted."
The object of his adoration was little Rosa Varona, the daughter of his one-time friend Esteban. At thought of her the planter glowed with ardor at any rate he took it to be ardor, although it might have been the fever from that summer rash which so afflicted him and his heart fluttered in a way dangerous to one of his apoplectic tendencies.
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