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Thus Bremen and Verden were secured in the house of Hanover; an acquisition towards which the English nation contributed by her money, as well as by her arms; an acquisition made in contradiction to the engagements into which England entered when king William became guarantee for the treaty of Travendahl; an acquisition that may be considered as the first link of a political chain by which the English nation were dragged back into expensive connexions with the continent.
Twice she had been turned out of rooming houses. Jeff read between the lines that as her time drew near some overmastering impulse had drawn her back to Verden. Already she was harboring the thought of death, but she could not die in a strange place so far from home. Only that morning she had reached town. After she had retired to the bedroom Jeff sat down in the chair she had vacated.
'Nevertheless, you'd better look sharp, Mrs Verden said. Helena turned away, weary of this exaggeration. 'I'll come with you to the station, suggested Mrs Verden. 'I'll see the last of you. We shan't see much of you just now. Helena turned round in surprise. 'Oh, I wouldn't bother, she said, fearing to make her disapproval too evident. 'Yes I will I'll see you off.
Another point that did not escape his attention was the way in which the institution catered to Merrill and Frome, because they were large donors to the university. He had once heard Peter C. Frome say in a speech to the students that he contributed to the support of Verden University because it was a "safe and conservative citadel which never had yielded to demagogic assaults."
'Shall I leave you the candle? said Mrs Verden. 'No, blow it out, replied the daughter. The mother did so, and immediately left the room, going downstairs to her husband. As she entered the dining-room he glanced up timidly at her. She was a tall, erect woman. Her brown eyes, usually so swift and searching, were haggard with tears that did not fall. He bowed down, obliterating himself.
Odd you and she hadn't met before. Didn't know Verden was such a big town." "I'm not a society man," explained Jeff. "And it happens I've been fighting her father politically for years. Miss Frome and Mrs. Van Tyle are about the last people I would be likely to meet." From his seat Jeff could see the cousins at the other end of the room.
Jeff sized him up as a resolute, clean-cut fellow, happily endowed with many gifts of fortune to make him the likable chap he was. Beauchamp threw out some clothes from a steamer trunk and left the rescued man alone to dress. Ten minutes later he returned. "Expect you'd like an interview with the barber. I'll take you round. By the way, you'll let me be your banker till you reach Verden?"
'It was like a brick, she reiterated, and that brutal simile was the only one she could find, months afterwards, to describe her condition. She felt as if something had crashed into her brain, stunning and maiming her. As she knocked at the door of home she was apparently quite calm. Her mother opened to her. 'What, are you alone? cried Mrs. Verden. 'Yes.
"The cure for the evils of Democracy is more Democracy." De Tocqueville. Part 1 On the occasion when his cousin was graduated with the highest honors from the law school of Verden University Jeff sat inconspicuously near the rear of the chapel. James, as class orator, rose to his hour.
By this treaty Sweden yielded for ever to the royal and electoral house of Brunswick the duchies of Bremen and Verden, with all their dependencies; king George obliged himself to pay a million of rix-dollars to the queen of Sweden; and to renew, as king of Great Britain and elector of Hanover, the alliances formerly subsisting between his predecessors and that kingdom.
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