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Vansittart; "and when she does go oh, it will be a bad day and a sad day for me and many others, not to speak of all the animals she has befriended. She is wonderfully sympathetic to dumb creatures and indeed to everybody." "That's true," echoed her companion, "no one knows of your aunt's good deeds and charities, not even her own servants, and that is saying everything.
Here, according to arrangement, we met the Vansittart. Bad weather had prevented Mr. Forsyth from completing the work allotted the cutter. We found the management of the Van Diemen's Land Agricultural Company in the hands of Mr. Gibson, from whom we received great attention.
Dorothy and Cornish were talking together at the other end of the room, and Marguerite was supposed to be looking at a book of photographs. "There goes a consignment of men's lives," said Mrs. Vansittart to her companion. "A human life, madam," answered the banker, "like all else on earth, varies much in value." For Mr.
Vansittart, the Governor, Hastings visited the Nawab, and a plan of conciliation was made by which the rights of the Nawab and the rights of the Company were duly apportioned and declared. But the headstrong Council of the Company refused the propositions of Warren Hastings and of Vansittart, and refused to make any concessions to the Nawab.
The piratical fleets cruising off the coast of China committed even greater depredations on commerce, as well as on the population of the sea-board, than even those in the Indian seas. Captain Edward Vansittart, in command of the Bittern, was sent against them with two steamers fitted out by the Chinese merchants.
Vansittart, with his heels clapped well together, making the most formal conversation, which was only varied by a stiff bow. "I have a friendly recollection," he said, preparing to take his leave, "of a Charles Vansittart, a student at Leyden, with whom I was brought into contact again in later life. He was, I believe, from Amsterdam, of an English mother." "Ah!" replied Mrs. Vansittart.
"We'll investigate it," he cried. "Yes, I proved there were none," answered Mr. Vansittart. "That's impossible, you know," remarked Mrs. Marland gently. "We'll put you to the proof this very evening," declared Mr. Sutton. Charlie started. "Are you game, Miss Bushell?" continued Victor. "Ye yes, if you'll keep quite near me, answered Millie, with a playful shudder.
"Are you the same Vansittart Smith who gave a paper in London upon El Kab? I saw a report of it. Your knowledge of the subject is contemptible." "Sir!" cried the Egyptologist. "Yet it is superior to that of many who make even greater pretensions.
In her wisdom that huge wisdom of life as seen from the threshold she did not believe Mrs. Vansittart's story. "Yes, but novelists and people take a true story and patch it up at the end. Perhaps most people do that with their lives, you know; perhaps Mrs. Vansittart " "Won't do that," said the major, staring in a stupid way out of the window with vacant, short-sighted eyes.
"Do you know," said the first speaker, "one could almost believe that by the continual contemplation of mummies the chap has become half a mummy himself?" "He has certainly an Egyptian cast of countenance," said the other. John Vansittart Smith spun round upon his heel with the intention of shaming his countrymen by a corrosive remark or two.
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