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I turn now to the affairs of Scotland, which are but little known. Swift. Not worth knowing. Burnet, Archbishop Spotswood began: his journey as he often did on a Sunday, which was a very odious thing in that country. Swift. Poor malice. Burnet, Mr. Swift. A strange death: perhaps it was of want of meat. Burnet. Swift. Puppy. Burnet.
Naturally supposing that this grief was in consequence of her recent widowhood, he pressed her hand, and said, gently: "I trust you are not overtaxing yourself by seeing me, my child. If you had preferred not to do so I should not have misunderstood. Your bereavement is so recent that " But Bettina, trying to silence her sobs, interrupted him. "Oh, forgive me, Mr. Spotswood," she said.
Not knowing, or not caring for the strong feeling of the settlers against him, Blackbeard continued in his wicked ways, and among other crimes he captured a small vessel and treated the crew in such a cruel and atrocious manner that the better class of North Carolinians vowed they would stand him no longer, and they therefore applied to Governor Spotswood, of Virginia, and asked his aid in putting down the pirates.
Elizabeth wrote a letter to James, in which she quoted a moral sentence from Isocrates, and indirectly reproached him with inconstancy, and a breach of his engagements. * Spotswood, p. 325, 326, et seq. Melvil, p. 140, 141. Strype, vol. iii. p. 156. * Melvil, p. 148. Jebb, vol. ii. p. 530. * Spotswood. p. 333 Spotswood. p. 334.
Paul's, before the Exchange, the Ballard House, the Spotswood, on Shockoe Hill by the President's House, through all the leafy streets there was vivid movement. In this time and place Life was so near to Death; the ocean of pain and ruin so evidently beat against its shores, that from very contrast and threatened doom Life took a higher light, a deeper splendour.
The queen still hesitated concerning Norfolk's execution; whether that she was really moved by friendship and compassion towards a peer of that rank and merit, or that, affecting the praise of clemency, she only put on the appearance of these sentiments. * Lesley, p. 175. Lesley, p. 189. Spotswood. * Carte, p. 527, from Fenelon's Despatches. Digges, p. 166. Strype, vol. ii. p. 83.
When she eagerly took in those pages filled with such anguish as possesses the heart but once or twice in a lifetime, the consciousness that it was she, Bettina, who had created such a love in the heart of the man that Horace Spotswood was to her now, so exhilarated her that she was capable of but one feeling exultation.
This answer sufficiently instructed James in his purpose; and he commanded him to leave the pulpit. * Spotswood, p. 354.
She had now reached her nineteenth year; and the bloom of her youth and amiable beauty of her person were further recommended by the affability of her address, the politeness of her manners, and the elegance of her genius. * Keith, p. 179. Jebb, vol. ii. p. 483. Buchan. lib. xvii. c. 9. Spotswood, p. 178, 179. Keith, p. 180. Thuan. lib xxix. c. 2.
All this country was rolling and hilly, but beyond it stood the mountains, a wall of enchantment, against the west. Alexander Spotswood, hardy Scot, endowed with a good temperamental blend of the imaginative and the active, was just the man, the time being ripe, to encounter and surmount that wall. Fortunately, too, the Virginians were horsemen, man and horse one piece almost, New World centaurs.
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