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Updated: June 6, 2025
"But famous John Semple of Carspharn," David Deans used to say with exultation, "saw the whaup in the rape.
He remembered now that he had heard good things of this urchin, as to the hard work he did to help his mother, the Widow Semple, in her struggle to keep a roof over her head; and also bad things, in that he did not come regularly either to church or Sunday-school. The clergyman recalled, too, that Harvey had impressed him as a character.
"That's what I was going to ask you." "Only a slight difficulty that you will help to put right." Semple stared with astonishment. The bottom had apparently fallen out of the works, but Clark was as cool as ever. "Help?" he demanded, puzzled. Clark evidently did not stand to lose much in the smash. "You're holding these fellows, aren't you?"
Mr. Semple, the candidate for the regular Democratic caucus, was beaten simply on account of his political orthodoxy. A minority is always strongly in favor of independent action and bitterly opposed to caucuses, and therefore we need not be surprised at finding Mr.
But while Semple was self-confident he could not be exonerated from paying the price of his rashness. Undoubtedly the Governor knew that the "Nor'-Westers" after their aggressiveness during the year 1815 were planning an attack upon Fort Douglas and upon the Colonists.
They went out at this, ignoring ceremony upon their exit as stolidly as they had done upon their entrance, and a moment later Thorpe called in the Secretary, and despatched a messenger to bring Semple from Capel Court. The formalities of this final transfer of shares had been dictated to the former, and he had gone off on the business, before the Broker arrived.
Perhaps that does not seem to you very remarkable, as we only met her in a most casual manner in an out-of-the-way village in Spain; but we really were on terms of some intimacy together, and one can only explain her silence by the fact, which seems to be pretty generally known, that she was a woman of quite unusual reserve. 'Yes, said Mr. Semple; 'I believe no one ever knew Mrs.
"What are you yourself?" he asked, and then he flushed, for he saw a little smile in my face at the transparency of his endeavour to be always on the pleasing side. "To tell the truth," he said, "I'm depending on salvation by reason of a fairly good heart, and an eagerness to wrong no man, gentle or semple.
"I don't expect ever to be married, Will," he said after a pause, with one of his far-away looks, and his chin up, showing that what he had said was an indisputable fact. "The Dickens!" said Will stopping in his walk and holding up Michael. "She hasn't refused you, has she?" "Refused me? Who? What do you mean?" asked Michael looking puzzled. "Why, Hester Miss Semple.
Ogilvie was a very unusual woman, said Mr. Semple. 'But even so began Lady Falconer. 'Even so, repeated the lawyer, 'my friend Peter and his talkative neighbour will soon be back again, and I must examine my witness before they return.
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