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It is to be feared the three R’s were not much patronized in East Anglia, if it be true that some forty or fifty years ago, in such a respectable town as Sudbury, it was the fashion for some fifty of the leading inhabitants to meet in the large bar-parlour of the old White Horse to hear the leading paper of the eastern counties read out by a scholar and elocutionist known as John.
But my private advice is for you not to attract the attention of the authorities to you in case they seem likely to overlook you." "Is my vessel at liberty to proceed?" inquired the man, sullenly. "Yes; I have no orders to seize your craft. I'd like to, however," Lieutenant Jack Benson added, dryly. Through the night the "Sudbury" rolled lazily over the waves.
"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.
Some of these squads performed prodigies of endurance; one of them arrived at the scene of action after a march of fifty-five miles. No man under seventy or over sixteen would stay at home; and Josiah Haynes of Sudbury was marching and fighting from earliest dawn till past noon, when he was killed by a grenadier's musket-ball. He was born five years before the Eighteenth Century began.
With the long, steady, magnificent sweep of the Navy which the sailors pulled, the little gig seemed to race through the water. "Is that the 'Sudbury'?" inquired Jack, nodding toward a trim little gunboat some two hundred feet long. "Yes, sir." All three of the submarine boys gazed at the gunboat with secret enthusiasm.
Now, after he was gone, Olaf thought that it would be well to cross the Colne and Stour rivers, and so cut off the Sudbury Danes from Colchester if it might be done. "Then there is no better place than my own," said I, "for the road on either side of the Stour can be guarded at Bures, and I know all the country well."
Revolvers in hand, and ready, the two young officers of the "Sudbury" pressed forward into the battered-looking room. "Where is the rascal?" growled Eph Somers. "Here, hiding like a cornered rat," replied Jack, aiming both revolvers at a huddled figure well in under the lower berth. "Come out, Gray! You won't be hurt unless you try tricks on us." The answer was a groan.
"You asked me," he said, "whether I know Sudbury Gray. I do, slightly. What about him?" And he waited, remembering Nina's suggestion as to that wealthy young man's eligibility. "He's one of the nicest men I know," she replied frankly. "Yes, but you don't know 'Boots' Lansing." "The gentleman who was bucked out of his footwear? Is he attractive?" "Rather.
The nest day Doctor Burdett called, and his grave manner and apparent disinclination to encourage any hope, confirmed the hopeless impression they already entertained. Aunt Ada came from Sudbury at Emily's request; she knew her presence would give pleasure to Clarence, she accordingly wrote her to come, and she and Emily nursed by turns the failing sufferer. Esther and her husband, Mrs.
This does not only arise from the sympathy which all healthy people have for small places as against big ones; it arises from some really good qualities in this particular Sudbury publication. First of all, the champions of Sudbury seem to be more open to the sensible and humorous view of the book than the champions of Ipswich at least, those that appear in this discussion.
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