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Updated: May 29, 2025
But bless you! every one knew that old Lord Sherard told his daughter his best scenes, and that she stayed with him in Continental hotels which some very particular mothers would not have allowed their daughters to enter. Mr. Lawrence wound up by saying, in a very charitable way, that he didn't blame the poor little woman, for she had a perfect beast of a husband.
There was on the plantation a ruffianly Chileno who, he knew, would dispose of Prout satisfactorily when asked to do so. When Marie's child was born, Sherard acted the part of the imperatively good-natured employer, and told Prout that as soon as his wife was strong enough, he was to leave the house he then occupied and take up his quarters permanently in the big house.
If we had trimmed parasols and eaten tinned food for supper for a year or two, Kitty, I imagine we should become very tearful too. Miss Sherard unloosed the rose-coloured ribbon which bound her hair, and beginning to brush out her curls she said 'Yes, slowly, and turned to other topics. 'Do you ever feel quite old, Jane? she said at last. 'I do, especially during a long frost.
"Don't let Burton entice you to Halaliko, Prout," he said with a laugh; "he knows that your time here is nearly up." Prout laughed too. "I don't think that Marie would like me to give up Kalahua for Halaliko would you, old girl?" She shook her head and smiled. "No, indeed, Mr. Sherard. I am too happy here to ever wish to leave."
"The Mana is in Honolulu with a cargo of Line Island boys, Prout," said Sherard to him about a month or two after this; "I wish you would get away down there, and try to obtain some more hands. You talk the language like a Line Islander, and will have no trouble in getting all the men we want." But when Prout boarded the labour schooner Mana there was not a native left.
The other planters on Oahu had been there before him, and the master Captain Courtayne called him down to have a drink in the cabin. "You are the new manager on Kalahua, hey? Well, I'm sorry you've had your trip for nothing; but, at the same time, I'm real glad to see Sherard left out in the cold.
'He has a good mount, said Peter, 'and I don't think it is much good trying to persuade Toffy not to ride. 'Kitty Sherard says she has laid the whole of her fortune on him, said Jane, 'so let 's hope that will bring him luck.
Wrottesley, 'we thought we were in love. 'A Miss Sherard stayed here last summer, said Miss Abingdon, 'a friend of Jane's, and she smoked cigarettes in her bedroom. I know that, for I saw the ashes in her pin-tray.
Every one looked to them misty and far away to-night, almost as though they had not sufficiently materialized to be perfectly distinct. With definite intention Peter led his partner towards a little room, hung with miniatures and plaques, at the farther end of the long corridor. Here they found Nigel Christopherson in conversation with Miss Sherard.
Well indeed may Englishmen be proud of men such as Ross, Parry, Clavering, Lyon, Beechey, and Franklin, and of others who have in still later days exhibited their dauntless courage and perseverance in the same cause Collinson, McClure, McClintock, Sherard Osborn, Forsyth, and many more.
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