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Meantime Rockstone and its quarries were almost as excellent a field of research as the mines of Coalham, and in a different line.
General Gordon arrived in England early in 1865, and proceeded to join his family at Rockstone Place, Southampton, where he was then doubly welcomed, as his father was in declining health, and died soon afterwards. Here Gordon passed a quiet six months, refusing all invitations with extreme modesty, and in every way baffling the attempts of relations, friends, and admirers to make a lion of him.
Thus she had, as a matter of truth, conscience, and repentance, made the confession which had been so kindly received as to warm her heart with gratitude to her aunt, and she awoke the next morning to feel freer, happier, and more at home than she had ever yet done at Rockstone.
There's a High School starting after the holidays at Rockstone. Let me have her, and send her there. 'Ada would not like it. 'Never mind Ada, I'll settle her. I would keep Dolly well up to her lessons, and prevent these friendships. 'I suppose you would manage her better than I have been able to do, said Lady Merrifield, reluctantly. 'Yet I should like to try again; I don't want to let her go.
I should have said it was herself, if it had not been impossible. Why she was with you at Rockstone, and it was a pouring, dripping day, said the colonel. 'No, she was not. She begged to spend the day with Constance Hacket, and we picked her up as we came home. Poor child, what has she been doing? I have not looked after her properly.
Then, with the assurance that anything he might have to communicate to the British Government would be given most careful consideration, the Foreign Minister bowed himself out. Edestone could not but compare this interview with the one he had held with Lord Rockstone the opening gun of his campaign. Verily, twenty-four hours had made a vast change in the attitude of the British Cabinet.
A little more zeal and distress would have been much more pleasing to Vera; and she began to be what Agatha and Thekla called cross, and Paula called drooping, and even excited alarm in her, lest Flapsy should be going into a decline. But a note came to the Goyle which Magdalen read alone, and likewise she cycled alone to Rockstone.
Gillian, in the corner of a Rockstone carriage, had time for the full heart-sickness and tumult of fear that causes such acute suffering to young hearts.
There he was told that his credentials and letters could be presented that afternoon, but there was practically no chance of an interview, as Lord Rockstone was leaving the War Offices in a few minutes. Word was finally brought in that Lord Rockstone would see Mr.
As to the young man himself, I should say to him that if he were caught trying to get into Germany he would be looked upon as a spy endeavouring to render assistance to the enemy, and would be treated accordingly." "But wait a moment, Rockstone," said Sir Egbert. "You are forgetting that this Mr. Edestone is in some measure at least the representative of his country.
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