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He remained there till the extreme rear of the retreating troops got up, when, looking about, and judging the ground to be an advantageous spot for giving the enemy the first check, he ordered Colonel Stewart's and Lieutenant-Colonel Ramsey's battalions to form and incline to their left, that they might be under cover of a corner of woods, and not be exposed to the enemy's cannon in front.
Ramsey's had been recommended to us as a royal place of entertainment the best in all that region; and as the sun grew hot in the sandy valley, and the weariness of noon fell upon us, we magnified Ramsey's in our imagination, the nobility of its situation, its cuisine, its inviting restfulness, and half decided to pass the night there in the true abandon of plantation life.
And in Ramsey's memory, the little boy, sitting beside the veteran, would half close his eyes, drowsily, playing that this sunshine spot was a white bird's-nest, until he had a momentary dream of a glittering little bird that dwelt there and wore a blue soldier cap on its head. And Ramsey would bring out of his memory thoughts that the old man had got into the child's head that day.
"Oh, he always manages to get to know people somehow or other. That's one of Ramsey's special gifts," Bobby remarked with as near an approach to bitterness as he was capable of expressing. "He used to come up and speak to the Prince when we were reclining on our deck chairs, but my companion did not encourage him. I think, Bobby, he was like you a little jealous.
Do you know what I think would be th' most beautiful thing in th' world? A baby in a rose-garden! Do you know, I ain't had a baby in my hands, excep' Ned Ramsey's little kid, once, for ten year!" Kate's face shone with sympathy. "How dreadful!" she cried. "I couldn't live without a baby about." "Like babies, do you? Well, well. Boys? Like boys?" "Not a bit better than girls," said Kate, stoutly.
Ramsey's had been recommended to us as a royal place of entertainment the best in all that region; and as the sun grew hot in the sandy valley, and the weariness of noon fell upon us, we magnified Ramsey's in our imagination, the nobility of its situation, its cuisine, its inviting restfulness, and half decided to pass the night there in the true abandon of plantation life.
This was quite exciting, for Edna's opportunities for riding in an automobile were not many. The magnificence of the Ramsey's dinner far outdid Aunt Elizabeth's, but Edna did not enjoy it one whit the more, although it was very delightful to be served by a man in livery, and to have such exquisite china and glass to look at during the meal.
Perhaps this was one of the reasons of the quite peculiar hostility with which most men regarded him, but with Madame de Corantin his manner was deferential, and it was clear that he was doing everything in his power to ingratiate himself. Bobby took little part in the conversation, and Ramsey's demeanour towards him was not such as to encourage him to do so.
This man, whose name was Ramsey, Jack Ramsey, went out in '97 between the Coast Range and the Rockies, and now this sentimental old pioneer says he will never leave the Peace River until he finds Ramsey's bones. "You see," Cromwell continued, "friendship here and what goes for friendship outside are vastly different.
The English-American promoter, smarting under criticism, reimbursed each of his associates and took over the office, empty ink-stands and blotting paper, and so blotted out all records of the one business failure of his life. But he could not blot out Jack Ramsey from his memory. There was a "reason," he would say, for Ramsey's silence.
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