Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 23, 2025
He bears one of the oldest names in England too, he's heir to an old title, and he's Captain in one of the crack regiments. And Nancy loves a soldier. She comes of a fighting race, and thinks there's no profession in the world worthy of being compared with the army." Bob Nancarrow was the only son of Dr. Nancarrow, a man much respected in St. Ia, but whom Admiral Tresize regarded as a crank.
An' the carriers be tappin' the stuff an' drinkin' what's left, an' neither to hold nor to bind but threat'nin' to cut the inside of en out an' he's here, if you plaze, to know if so be you could lend a few pounds to satisfy 'em. I told en 'Show him in, commanded Mrs Tresize, with a creditable hold on her voice; for, to tell the truth, she was half hysterical.
While he peered and blinked, memory recalled to him old Mrs Puckey's tale of the money-chest kept by the widow Tresize beneath her bed. Mischief was brewing, beyond a doubt. Precisely what that mischief might be he could not determine.
The courtlege of Landeweddy was hedged with tamarisks, now leafless, and through these, above the wall's coping, the upper part of the house loomed an indistinct mass against the indigo-gray night. No light showed anywhere as why should the widow Tresize or her maid Tryphena be awake at such an hour?
It was on Monday, the twenty-ninth day of June in this present year, that Robert, or, as he is generally spoken of by his friends, Bob Nancarrow, got out his two-seater Renaud, and prepared to drive to Penwennack, the home of Admiral Tresize. Bob had but just "come down" from Oxford, and was now in great good spirits at the prospect before him.
'Oh yes, it has, answered Mrs Tresize, measuring out the brandy. 'But you see, doctor, one gets accustomed to fears, living in this lonely place; and with a man as protector one feels as safe as with a regiment. 'You flatter my ability, I fear, said the doctor. 'I will do my best, of course: but I ought to warn you that I am no expert with firearms.
The paper bore a scrawl in pencil, ill-written, but decipherable 'Mrs Tresize at Landeweddy. 48. White gate, entrance back. By Celler. Mem. I large chest. To be handled quick and hidn in orchd if necessry. Reported good money, but near. No help here but 1 servt maid.
You drive a longer ball than Trevanion." It was easy to see by the change that had come over the Captain's face that he was becoming anxious. He hit his ball with perfect precision, but it dropped on the tee side of the high mound. Dick Tresize turned towards the green. "You are on, old chap," he said, as his friend came up. "It's at the corner of the green, but you should do it."
At any rate she went so far as to hazard with a glance at the ivory tablets, and another at the hearth and the elbow-chairs that he would find the waiting tedious. 'Not if you can supply me with a book, ma'am, he answered, laying the two guns on the table, after sweeping the dominoes aside to make room for them. Mrs Tresize left the room and returned bearing a volume Blair's Grave.
"Off you go," he said, "and mind you take great care of her, Bob." Admiral Tresize liked Bob very much, and always welcomed him to Penwennack. He remembered that he had Trelawney blood in his veins, and, although his father had been a Quaker doctor, he made no secret of the fact that he liked the boy, and he often spoke of him as a nice, quiet, clever lad.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking