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I don't know what would put sponges into her head. But, of course, she had to say something. What was she like to look at?" "She had a dark blue dress," said Frank, "and was tallish." "Fuzzy fair hair?" said Lord Torrington. "I don't remember her hair." "Slim?" "I'd call Miss Rutherford fat," said Frank. "At least, she's decidedly stout." "Not her," said Lord Torrington.
Torrington took the command of the English fleet which lay in the Downs, and sailed to Saint Helen's. He was there joined by a Dutch squadron under the command of Evertsen. It seemed that the cliffs of the Isle of Wight would witness one of the greatest naval conflicts recorded in history. A hundred and fifty ships of the line could be counted at once from the watchtower of Saint Catharine's.
They forced their way to windward through clouds of spray and before Lord Torrington was half way across the bay Joseph Antony hauled him dripping into the boat. Peter Walsh, standing in the water beside the stranded Tortoise, saw with blank amazement that Kinsella turned the boat's head and rowed back again to Inishbawn.
This it was that Torrington, the author of the phrase, proposed for the time to do. Thus it was that Napoleon, to some extent before Trafalgar, but afterward with set and exclusive purpose, used the French Navy, which he was continually augmenting, and yet never, to the end of his reign, permitted again to undertake any serious expedition.
"Which now makes us twenty-five and thirty respectively," said Hay, dryly; "you left school before I did." "Yes; I had scarlet fever, and was taken home to be nursed. I never went back, and since then I have never met an old Torrington boy " "Have you not?" asked Hay, eagerly. "No. My parents took me abroad, and I sampled a German university.
In all this consideration of the potentialities of "a fleet in being" operating defensively it must never be forgotten that we are dealing with its possibilities in relation to a general command of the sea to its general power of holding such command in dispute, as Torrington used it.
He wouldn't, couldn't in fact It wouldn't be the thing at all. The fact is, Frank, that Torrington's coming here tomorrow, wired from Dublin to say so. He and Lady Torrington. I can't imagine what he wants here. I'd call it damned insolence in any one else, knowing what I must think of his rascally politics, what every decent man thinks of them. But of course he's a kind of cousin.
We may talk of adventure the romance of business we may call our job by a dozen pretty names, but it analyses out at something fairly damnable when we apply the supreme test." Mr. Torrington nodded. "And yet what is the alternative?" he asked. "Life is only a matter of diamond cut diamond." "It's a scavenger's job," said Cranbourne. "And you can't get away from that."
It was built by the Presbyterians. The first authentic mention of its minister is in 1700, when the Rev. Samuel Evans "collected on the brief for Torrington at a meeting of Protestant Dissenters held at the White Hart, Hammersmith, 13s. 6d." In the Brook Green Road Nos. 41 to 45 contain an orphanage called St. Mary's Catholic Orphanage for Girls.
Several persons who had been concerned in cheating the government and poisoning the sailors were taken into custody by the Serjeant, But no censure was passed on the chief offender, Torrington, nor does it appear that a single voice was raised against him. He had personal friends in both parties. He had many popular qualities. Even his vices were not those which excite public hatred.
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