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"And sometimes a beacon, sir, to warn you there is no safe anchorage near him," returned the ready boy. "Rogue!" muttered Barnstable, "your cousin Kate spoke there." "If my cousin Plowden were here, Mr. Barnstable, I know that her opinion of yon gentleman would not be at all more favorable." "And yet, I have determined to trust him!
Plowden was ransomed by the Gondar merchants, but died a few days afterwards, in March, 1860, from the effects of the wound. During our stay at Kuarata, at the time we were in high favour, office copies of Plowden's official letters for the year preceding his death, were brought to us. How altered his impression, how changed his opinion!
I have many reasons for changing my opinion, the chief of which is, that he is leagued with the rebellious Americans in this unnatural war. Nay, chide me not, Miss Plowden; you will remember that I found my being on this island. I come here on no vain or weak errand, Miss Howard, but to spare human blood." She paused, as if struggling to speak calmly.
Look a little north of the place where the glare of the sun is coming, Miss Plowden, and you will be able to see our gallant vessel." An involuntary cry of pleasure burst from the lips of Katherine, as she followed his directions, and first beheld the frigate through the medium of the fluctuating colors of the morning.
"But perhaps I'd better come in another day," he suggested, tentatively. "I'm interrupting you." "No sit still," Thorpe bade him, and then, with chin settled more determinedly than ever in his cravat, sat eyeing him in a long, dour silence. Lord Plowden found it impossible to obtain from this massive, apathetic visage any clue to the thoughts working behind it.
When they had put down their glasses, and the younger man was getting into his great-coat, Thorpe bestowed the brandy and cigars within a cabinet at the corner of the room, and carefully turned a key upon them. "If you're going West, let me give you a lift," said Lord Plowden, hat in hand. "I can set you down wherever you like.
His accession marks the first real clash between the rival claims of the Dutch and English. In 1632 Lord Baltimore obtained a patent for Maryland which included all the south side of Delaware Bay and river; and a month later Sir Edmund Plowden obtained a grant from the English king for "Long Isle and also forty leagues square of the adjoining continent," including the very site of Manhattan.
"What things?" said the other. Plowden shrugged his shoulders, framed his lips to utter something which he decided not to say, and at last turned on his heel. "Good day," he called out over his shoulder, and left the room with a flagrant air of hostility. Thorpe, wandering about the apartment, stopped after a time at the cabinet, and helped himself to a drink.
Even I have an explanation to ask of you, that I would much rather let alone. "Of me! ask what you will, or how you will; I am a careless, unthinking fellow, Miss Plowden; but to you I have little to answer for unless a foolish sort of adoration be an offence against your merits."
Lord Plowden was familiarly spoken of as a handsome man. Thorpe had even heard him called the handsomest man in England though this seemed in all likelihood an exaggeration. But handsome he undoubtedly was tall without suggesting the thought of height to the observer, erect yet graceful, powerfully built, while preserving the effect of slenderness.
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