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Your ever loving and always faithful FRANK. P.S. There's a poor fellow here in the same ward dying I should say of necrosis of the jaw Vavasour Williams is his name or a part of his name. His father was at Cambridge with my old man, and isn't it rum? he was a pupil of Praddy's!! He mucked his school and 'varsity career, thought next he'd like to be an architect or a scene painter.
To dress well is half a passport to a soldier's respect; whilst on the other hand, it requires many excellent qualities, to counterbalance in his mind a careless and slovenly exterior. Colonel Vavasour had an independent fortune, which he spent at the head of his regiment.
Vavasour could only advise her to say to Horace just what she had said to her, and she had sufficient confidence in Maria's courage and good sense to trust that she would do so now, when matters had evidently come to a crisis. But it was with the keenest interest she awaited the end of their conversation. She had not to wait very long.
He was one of a new council formed in August and sent into Ireland about the end of that month. Lady Vavasour was Ursula, daughter of Walter Gifford of Chillington, Staffordshire. Her husband was Sir Thomas Vavasour, Bart.
I am afraid I used to torment you when I was young and foolish." "Where on earth can Mellot and Mr. Vavasour be?" asked Campbell. "Oh, never mind! Mr.
But the Queen had no ears for these remonstrances, and no disposition to open her coffers. A warrant for twenty-four thousand pounds had been signed by her at the end of the month of March, and was about to be sent, when Vavasour arrived; but it was not possible for him, although assisted by the eloquence of Walsingham and Burghley, to obtain an enlargement of the pittance.
"Better go back to the old system, than modify the new," said Lord Marney. "I wish the people would take to it a little more," said Sir Vavasour; "they certainly do not like it in our parish." "The people are very contented here, eh Slimsey?" said Lord Marney. "Very," said the vicar.
Owen say, "We have no room, sir, unless these gentlemen " "Of course," said Wynd, jumping up, a child under each arm. "Mr. Vavasour! we shall be most happy to have your company, for a week if you will!" "Ten minutes' solitude is all I ask, sir, if I am not intruding too far." "Two hours, if you like. We'll stay here. Mrs. Owen, the thicker the merrier."
Vavasour of Brazenose was engaged with a powerful butcher, a well-known champion of the Town party, when, the great University bells ringing to dinner, truce was called between the combatants, and they retired to their several colleges for refection. During the boat-race, a gentleman pulling in a canoe, and smoking a narghilly, had attracted no ordinary attention.
Raymond de Brocas and Joan Vavasour had been made man and wife by good Master Bernard de Brocas in his church at Guildford, and in the soft sunlight of an October afternoon were riding together in the direction of Basildene, from henceforth to be their home. Raymond had not yet seen Basildene.
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