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Not Sevenoaks alone, but the whole country was open to any scheme which connected them with the profits of these great discoveries, and when the excitement at Sevenoaks passed away at last, and men regained their senses, in the loss of their money, they had the company of a multitude of ruined sympathizers throughout the length and breadth of the land.
His later years were passed at Sevenoaks, where he kept an establishment for imbeciles, or weak-minded youths.
In yonder silent heavens the stars still shine, printing on boundless space the words of golden promise. Will you leave Sevenoaks? Will you go to yonder metropolis, and there reap, in honor and pleasure, the rewards of your enterprise? Will you leave Sevenoaks howling in pain? Will you leave these scurvy ministers to whine for their salaries and whine to empty air?
This hoarse babel ended suddenly as, opening the door, Anthony strode in, his whole person and attitude suggestive of that air I have already mentioned as one of polite ferocity. "Aha!" said he, feet wide-planted, Captain Danby's stout cane bending in his powerful hands. "How far is it to Sevenoaks, pray?" "Better nor seven mile!" answered the surly landlord, setting down his spirit-glass.
Find out, too, if you can, when his boy came to live at Balfour's over the way, and where he came from. You may stumble upon what I want very soon, or it may take you all winter. If you should fail then, I shall want you to take the road from here to Sevenoaks, and even to Number Nine, looking into all the alms-houses on the way.
Belcher evidently recalled the letter, for he sat limp in his chair, like a man stunned. A fierce quarrel then arose between the counsel concerning the admission of the letter. The Judge examined it, and said that he could see no reason why it should not be admitted. Then Mr. Balfour read the following note: "SEVENOAKS, May 5, 1860. "Dear Benedict: I am glad to know that you are better.
Again and again had Mr. Belcher urged her to get the little Sevenoaks pauper into her confidence, and to ascertain whether his father were still living.
What do you think? Perhaps you will settle that question by and by. You will keep him while you can use him. Then Toll, my boy, you can drift. In the meantime, splendor! and in the meantime let Sevenoaks howl, and learn to let Robert Belcher alone." From these dizzy heights of elation Mr.
'I think I shall fancy this place more now, he said to John on the morning they parted. 'But, oh, if you could only have seen that little place of mine five miles from Sevenoaks! 'Look here! said John. 'You've got a bigger estate here than ever you had there, and you can find the same sort of interests in it.
He ought to have been brought up in Sevenoaks and polished! He ought to have been subjected to the civilizing and refining influences of Bob Belcher!" "Now, you mustn't be offended, Keziah. We are all your friends, and anxious for your welfare." "But you think Jim Fenton is a brute." "I have said nothing of the kind." "But you think so." "I think you ought to know him better than I do."
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