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Updated: June 23, 2025
I can recollect walking with your mother, Katharine, through lanes blossoming with wild hawthorn. But where is the hawthorn now? You remember that exquisite description in De Quincey, Mr. Popham? but I forget, you, in your generation, with all your activity and enlightenment, at which I can only marvel" here she displayed both her beautiful white hands "do not read De Quincey.
The three girls were sitting at the table on which lunch was spread, a meal which no one was destined to eat at Popham Villa on that day, and thus they remained till Sir Thomas joined them. "Mary," he had said, "Ralph Newton wishes to speak to you. You had better go to him." "To me, uncle?" "Yes, to you. You had better go to him." "But I had rather not."
This wall and the shelf beneath it, jutted out at one point so as to conceal all beyond it; when Basil reached the spot, he looked stealthily round the angle of the rock, drew back sharply, shouldered his gun, and signed to Mr Popham to do the same. At that instant, two shots were fired by the unseen foes, but fell harmless.
By the time all had been introduced, a great cask of wine had been broached, and after the tenants had drunk to his health, and he had, in turn, pledged them, Cyril entered the house with Sydney and Mr. Popham, and proceeded to examine it under the guidance of the old man who had been his father's butler, and whose wife had also been a servant in Sir Aubrey's time.
To the thinking of Patience Underwood, no lot in life could be happier for a woman than to be the wife of a zealous and praiseworthy parson of an English country parish; no lot in life, at least, could be happier for any woman who intended to become a wife. Such were the two girls at Popham Villa who were told on that evening that a new sister was to be brought home to them.
The corporators named in the second colony were Thomas Hankam, Raleigh Gilbert, William Parker, and George Popham, representing Bristol, Exeter, and Plymouth, and the west counties, who were authorized to make a settlement anywhere between the 38th and 4Sth degrees of latitude.
Just then the Admiral changed his position to conceal the moisture that was beginning to gather in his eyes; and the sight of a personage so unspeakably magnificent in a naval uniform induced Osh Popham to cry spontaneously: "Three cheers for the Admiral!
Nevertheless, they brought back, as Sir Ferdinando Gorges wrote many years after, "the most exact discovery of that coast that ever came to my hands since," which wrought "such an impression" on Chief-Justice Popham and the other members of the Plymouth Company that they determined upon another and better-appointed attempt at once.
I must, at any rate, track and secure those diamonds. I can never face Francis otherwise; you know they were entrusted to our care so specially." My husband had listened in speechless astonishment to these disclosures, and I saw him turn pale. Mr Popham saw it too. "Is it possible, my dear Laurence," he said, "that you had not heard of Jones's having absconded?
"Thank you, thank you," I answered; "we will lose no time in going to him; and now, let me hear some particulars." "We reached Scutari all right," said Mr Popham; "the Pasha had just left it to attack a fort belonging to the Prince of the Black Mountain; so we followed, and reached the camp just as the fort was being stormed.
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