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At this place may be said to end what we call the Hundreds of Essex that is to say, the three Hundreds or divisions which include the marshy country, viz., Barnstable Hundred, Rochford Hundred, and Dengy Hundred.
The Lady Rochford, warming her back close before the fire, said helplessly, 'I have no dresses beyond what you see. She was already attired in a bountiful wine-coloured velvet that was embroidered with silver wire into entwined monograms of the initials of her name. Her hood of purple made, above her ample brows, a castellated pattern resembling the gate of a drawbridge.
"Henry is not an ordinary gallant." "It is you who are mistaken, father," replied Anne. "The king differs in no respect from any of his love-smitten subjects. I have him in my toils, and will not let him escape." "You have a tiger in your toils, daughter, and take heed he breaks not forcibly through them," rejoined Rochford. "Henry is more wayward than you suppose him.
Cicely Elliott rose in her chair: it was not any part of her nature to succour fainting knaves, and she let him stay where he was. Old Rochford raised his hands, and cried out to Katharine: 'You have been sending letters again! Katharine stood absolutely still. They had taken her letters! She neither spoke nor stirred.
"Him not come back since yesterday; bery likely Redskin got him." "Redskin got him! oh dat bad news!" exclaimed Pompey in a truly sorrowful voice. He then, in the peculiar jargon of the blacks, informed his companions that a party had arrived from Fort King, who would be bitterly disappointed at not finding Massa Rochford. They now held a consultation as to what should be done.
The clank of the pike-staves sounded on the boards without, and old Rochford was tearing at his white hairs in the little light from the fire. Katharine Howard ran swiftly from the shadow of the fireplace. 'Give me time, till they have passed the stairhead, she whispered. 'For pity! for pity. 'For pity, he muttered.
Rochford, though the best sportsman of the party, as he shortly afterwards proved, declined to come. Tim and I took the oars, while my father and Lejoillie held their rifles ready to fire, as soon as we got near enough. On leaving the schooner we kept close to the bank, so that we might approach the deer without being observed.
And Rochford, with Captain Nockelles on one side, and a guard armed with a brace of pistols on the other advanced towards the table. "What! a white man having the audacity to induce blacks to rebel against the authority of the State!" exclaimed the judge not recognising him. "What have you to say to this accusation?"
While I was arousing him, I thought I heard the sound of a horse moving rapidly over the ground. "Hark!" I exclaimed, "can that be our horse which has got loose?" We both looked in the direction where we had last seen the animal, but it was nowhere visible. "It has got loose somehow or other. We must try to catch it," cried Rochford.
I was very anxious to accompany Rochford; but he considered that my appearance would excite suspicion, and that it would be safer to go alone.
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