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It was evident that he looked without seeing, that he observed without comprehending. "Surely he will not know Jack," Uniacke thought, "since he does not know his own face." And he felt a faint sense of relief. But this passed away, for the unrest of the Skipper seemed continually to grow more marked and seething. Uniacke noticed it with gathering anxiety. Sir Graham did not observe it.
I have been considering your words, your advice." "And you will take it?" Uniacke said, with a sudden enormous sense of gratefulness. "I think I shall." "Think Sir Graham!" "I'll decide to-night. I must have the day to consider. But yes, you are right. That that horrible appearance. I suppose it must be evoked by the trickery of my own brain." "Undoubtedly." "There can be no other reason for it?"
In October, Oxley started from Sydney on a very different kind of expedition to those lately undertaken by him. His mission now was to examine the inlets of Port Curtis, Moreton Bay, and Port Bowen, with a view to forming penal establishments there. On the 21st of October, therefore, 1823, he left in the colonial cutter MERMAID, accompanied by Messrs. Stirling and Uniacke.
He got up and went to and fro uneasily about the room. "Horrible!" he muttered, as if to himself. "Horrible!" He stopped suddenly in front of Uniacke. "Do you believe," he said, "that when we think very steadily and intensely of a thing we may, perhaps, project give life, as it were, for the moment to our thought?" "Why do you ask me?" said Uniacke.
"And and yes, Uniacke, that poor, mad Skipper is still out there, lingering among them. He is by the churchyard wall, where you were standing this evening in the twilight: one would say he was watching." The clergyman had also risen from his seat. He moved a step or two across the little room, then stood still, looking at Sir Graham, who was half concealed by the fluttering curtains.
While she was thinking thus, and wondering if it were real, her heart suddenly stopped still. It was only at the sound of a name, repeated in idle conversation by two ladies behind her. "Edwin Uniacke! Yes, it is quite true. My husband was speaking of it only this morning. He is Sir Edwin Uniacke now, with a large fortune besides." "He didn't deserve it.
A keen observer, who had lived twenty years longer in the world than he, might, regarding him in all his beauty and youth, feel a sentiment not unlike compassion for Edwin Uniacke. He sat down, making himself quite at home, though this was only his second visit to Avonside Cottage.
James Boyle Uniacke, a member of the government, retired, rather than vote, and subsequently placed his resignation in the hands of the lieutenant-governor, on the ground that it was his duty to yield to the opinions of the representative house, and facilitate the introduction of a better system of government, in accordance with the well-understood wishes of the people. From that time Mr.
He must have come stealthily across the grass, for she had heard nothing, did not even know that any body was near, till she looked up and saw Sir Edwin Uniacke. She half rose, and then sat down again, with a blind instinct that any thing was better than either to be or to appear afraid.
The mad Skipper, whom nothing attracted, wandering vacantly, according to his sad custom, about the graveyard and in the church, one day ascended to the belfry, in which Sir Graham sat at work on a study for the background of his picture. Uniacke was with his friend at the time, and heard the Skipper's heavy and stumbling footsteps ascending the narrow stone stairs.
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