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Adelaide busied herself in throwing the contents of the drawers on the floor. "There's her ball dresses," commented Ann, as a pink satin, trimmed with magnificent lace, tumbled out. "Old Carew brought the lace over for her." "Bring a basket, Hannah, and take these away somewhere, to some other closet of Mrs. Somers's." "That gold fringe, do you remember, Adder?
I had to raise some money on a little jewelry I had, but I made up my mind it was neck or nothing, and, sir, a month ago I got that place in Adkins & Somers's at a thousand a year. They are good men, too. You needn't think there's anything wrong." She looked at them with an expression as if she was ready to spring at the slightest intimation of distrust on their part.
A gentleman who despised the vulgar clamour against professional soldiers, who held the doctrine of Somers's Balancing Letter, and who was prepared to vote for twenty or even thirty thousand men, might yet well ask why any of those men should be foreigners. Were our countrymen naturally inferior to men of other races in any of the qualities which, under proper training, make excellent soldiers?
Immediately after his interview with his mother, Mr. Herbert rode over to Mr. Somers's house, and there found him sitting alone in his office. He dashed immediately into the subject that had brought him there. "I have come, Mr. Somers," said he, "to ask you a question about the property." "About the Castle Richmond property?" said Mr. Somers, rather surprised by his visitor's manner.
I like you for being a real, sincere, natural girl for being simple in your tastes, and simple in your appearance, and simple in your manners, and for having heart enough left, as I hope, to love plain George Somers, with all his faults, and not Mr. Somers's reputation, or Mr. Somers's establishment."
"Well," said Leyton, a little impatiently, "that's the belief everybody has, and you've not contradicted it. And on that we've taken the responsibility of not interfering with Somers's attentions." "Well?" said Rushbrook, interrogatively. "Well," replied Leyton, emphatically, "you see I must ask you positively if you HAVE done anything, or are you going to do anything for him?"
But he would have given the spring and all springs to come for Kathleen Somers, and the bitter kernel of it was that he knew it. The nurse was visibly trembling. You see, Kathleen Somers's heart had never been absolutely right. It was a terrible responsibility to let her patient face Withrow. Still, neither she nor any other woman could have held Withrow off.
We see the influence of this literature of travel in the Tempest, written undoubtedly after Shakspere had been reading the narrative of Sir George Somers's shipwreck on the Bermudas or "Isles of Devils." Raleigh was not in favor with Elizabeth's successor, James I. He was sentenced to death on a trumped-up charge of high treason.
The bullet clipped off a stray lock of hair at the left side of Eph Somers's head. Both young officers fired slowly, searchingly, until their weapons were emptied. Then they passed the hot smoking revolvers back for new loads. From the other side of the stateroom door came no sound. As soon as he and Eph had received the reloaded weapons, Jack motioned Eph Somers not to fire.
"I shall have to ask you to take the signal for that from the 'Sudbury," Eph answered. On the gunboat's quarter deck, following Ensign Somers's report, there was an anxious conference. "If this is the craft we've been following all the time," muttered Jack Benson, "we've a lot of hunting yet ahead of us." "Shall I signal the schooner permission to proceed, sir?" asked Ensign Fullerton.
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