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"Oh, that's all my eye and Betty Martin," she returned in the vernacular of her youth, "I grant you there's a lot of soft-sawder about the fellers down here, but they ain't in it wi' us up in Yorkshire." "Where do you come from, Mrs. Spencer? I'm a dalesman myself; Wensleydale's my native land." "I'm from Thirsk, sir.
The volunteers armed themselves rapidly, and with drums beating they marched away, with only such delay as was caused by the hurried leave-takings with wives and mothers, and all the rest who crowded round. The contingent took the road to Thirsk, and on the way were joined by the Mashamshire men.
Lord Thirsk said she had been disappointed in love and wanted to kill herself." "Did you think her handsome?" "Oh, dear, no! Far from it! She is blowsy and fat, has far too much color, and carries too much flesh in spite of the rough way she uses herself." "Harry, eight years ago I was as madly in love with Lady Penryn as you are now with Lucy Lugur. All that you are suffering I have suffered.
Clerical meetings all over the country petitioned Parliament to defend them against insidious attacks on our national Protestantism. Before long, the storm rolled up to Yorkshire, and a meeting of the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland was assembled at Thirsk on the 24th of March 1823. To this meeting a Resolution was submitted, protesting against the emancipation of the Roman Catholics.
He seemed, however, to be an exceptionally efficient person, so far as his duties were concerned, and on our arrival at the little wayside station about twelve miles beyond Thirsk, where we had changed trains, he proceeded to take charge of the luggage, all but the suit-case which I still carried.
Herrick, my people lived near Thirsk in a farm at Feliskirk in the hills. Oh, do you think she knew them?" Mrs. Spencer, who had hitherto overlooked Toni, turned to her in surprise. "If you'll tell me the name, miss ma'am. We knew most of t' people in t' neighbourhood." "Gibbs their name was Gibbs." She spoke breathlessly. "The house was called the Green Farm. Oh, do you know anything about them?"
My mother was washerwoman to lots of the gentry round, and my people still lives there, in a cottage on the Green." "Ah, I know Thirsk fine old church there, one of the finest in the North Riding. You've never been there, Mrs. Rose?" He turned to include Toni in the conversation, and found her wide-eyed and flushed with excitement. "Mr.
Whether it was with relief or disappointment I do not know; but when the volunteers reached Thirsk they heard that they had been called out by a false alarm, for the light seen in the direction of Roseberry Topping had been caused by accident, and the beacon on that height had not been lit.
The air was so thick that it was not easy to see where were the sullen group of diggers presided over by the quondam duellists of Thirsk, Kitson and Trenton, now the most inseparable and impracticable of men; but James and his companions had ridden about two miles from the market-place, when Ralf Percy came out of the mist, exclaiming, 'Is it you, Sir King?
It is only ten days since he halted Lord Thirsk in t' High Street of Hatton, and then told him flat if he sent any more notes and flowers to Miss Lugur, 'Miss, mind you, he would thrash him to within an inch of his life." "What did Lord Thirsk say?"
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