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A reporter's life brings him into contact both with tragedy and comedy. I have an amusing recollection of a visit paid by Edward VII., when Prince of Wales, to Upper Teesdale during my stay in Leeds, for the purpose of shooting on the Duke of Cleveland's moors.
Bainbridge was, of course, furious, whereupon Lord Teesdale took it upon himself to go at once to London to see Otley. This he did, and when that afternoon Sanford showed his lordship unexpectedly into the room, the young man stood aghast at the news. "Tell me, Otley if you know nothing of this affair why, then, did you leave Hawstead so suddenly?" he demanded.
Jellicorse, of Middleton in Teesdale, had won golden opinions every where. He was an uncommonly honest lawyer, highly incapable of almost any trick, and lofty in his view of things, when his side of them was the legal one.
Her voice sounded strained and hoarse. "Zat question I did not ask you I ask you will you marry me?" He did not wait for an answer, but went on persuasively, yet stating the bald and hopeless facts that seemed so crushing to her youth and inexperience. "You have no parent no home, Mees Teesdale; you have no money and not so many friend in Crowheart. You marry me and all is change.
"Oh, you wouldn't marry me?" the guttural voice was ugly now "I offer you good home, good clothes, ze chance to travel when you lak and hear ze good music zat you love and you wouldn't marry me if I ask you million times? Maybe some time, Mees Teesdale, you be glad to marry me when I ask you once!" "Maybe I will," the angry young voice flung back, "but that time hasn't come yet, Mr. Dubois!"
The Teesdales' shooting-parties are famed for their fun and merriment." "I know Lady Teesdale," Otley said. "But I wonder why she has asked me?" "Don't wonder, dear boy but accept and come. We'll have a real jolly time." And then they turned into the Boulevard des Italiens and idled before some of the shops. At noon she was compelled to leave him and return to her mother.
I happened to have read of the defence of Kars under the leadership of three heroic Englishmen General Williams, Captain Teesdale, and Doctor Sandwith and of the betrayal of the Circassian rising under Shamyl at the time of the Crimean war. The old man was delighted. 'Listen, O my son! he called out to the person who had let us in. 'It is true what I have often told to thee.
The shooting-parties at Hawstead were well known for their happy enjoyment. They were talked about in the drawing-rooms of Yorkshire and clubs in town each year, for Lady Teesdale was one of the most popular of hostesses and delighted in surrounding herself with young people.
Jenny was her name, Jenny Teesdale; her people come from the North. Pretty as a pink Jenny was, and neat in her ways, and would make me a good wife, every one said, even my own mother; and when a man's mother owns that about a girl he may know he's got hold of a treasure.
with the description of Upper Teesdale; Bertram's clamber on the cliff, with its reminiscences of the 'Kittle Nine Steps, these lead on to many other things as good, ending with that altogether admirable bit of workmanship, Bertram's revenge on Oswald and his own death.
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