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Grimshaw, will be through his wife, if the doctor should marry some relative." "That is it, hey? Well! I will not be made a sumpter-mule to carry this rich gift over to Dr. Grimshaw even if there is no other way of conveyance. Mother! what is the reason the professor is such a favorite with uncle?" "My dear, I don't know, but I have often had my suspicions." "Of what, Mimmy?"
"Oh, we have settled that," said Ethel, "we mean to make the donkey a sumpter-mule, so, if you are tired, you may ride home on her." "But, my dear, has your mamma considered? They are such a set of wild people at Cocksmoor; I don't think we could walk there alone." "It is Saturday," said Ethel, "we can get the boys." "If you would reflect a little! They would be no protection.
"Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, man," was the answer. "Uncover, varlet!" "Surely," said the prince, pausing by the gate, "surely this is no sumpter-mule, bearing provisions to the Lord Henry of Windsor.
Each had a light valise strapped behind the saddle, and the servants had saddle-bags containing the smaller articles of luggage, while the sumpter-mule carried two trunks with their clothes and sea necessaries. It was late in the evening when they arrived at Chatham. Here they put up at an hotel which was crowded with officers of the Fleet, and with Volunteers like themselves.
Then praying them not to stir from the house until she returned, lest any ill should betide them, she set out, and journeyed on and on without ever tiring; and though she went on foot, her desire to aid her brothers served her as a sumpter-mule, with which she made three miles an hour.
One by one the great houses shut; shoal by shoal the little people sail away. Yet beauty lingers still. Still the magnet of a straggling ball attracts the remaining brilliants; still a lagging dinner, like a sumpter-mule on a march, is a mark for plunder. The Park, too, is not yet empty, and perhaps is even more fascinating; like a beauty in a consumption, who each day gets thinner and more fair.
I say, knowing such to be the case, I also know my own importance as a 'stalking-horse, or sumpter-mule, or something of the sort, to bear upon my own shoulders the burden of this estate, which you wish to give by me to Dr. Grimshaw. Therefore, I shall not give myself away for nothing. I intend to sell myself for a price! Nothing on earth would induce me to consent to marry Dr.
A courier, accompanied by a sumpter-mule, had departed over-night to prepare the way for those who were to follow, and active young mountaineers had succeeded, from time to time, charged with different orders, issued in behalf of their comforts.
Yonder, on my sumpter-mule, is a suit of Milan armour, which a king might wear upon the day he went forth to do battle for his crown. Bring it forth, knaves, and let the Mandeville be clad as becomes the affianced of our mistress. "'Brave Chopinski, I said, 'and you, kind sirs and nobles pardon me if I cannot thank you now in a manner befitting to the greatness of your deserts.
The prince saw the black dispose himself on the grass outside, with his eyes upon the sumpter-mule. Aaron sat upon one of the rugs, and Seti, following his example, took another. "Say on," the prince urged. The Hebrew began at once. "What I tell thee, O my son, will soon be talked abroad over the land.
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