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Vernon looked at them and kept on laughing. "You two fellows take it too seriously," he added. "I don't believe they'll tell." "I thought you knew women better than that," said Collins, reproachfully. "I do know them better than any dried-up diplomat, at least, and I believe we can trust these two for a few days, anyway. How much time do we need?" "A week, at the very least.
"What a peculiar wedding," said every one; "just like the Wymans, they never do anything like any one else." "What he found to admire in Miss Evans, is more than I can see," said one of the busy-bodies who favored Miss Vernon with a call on a certain memorable morning. "He's a curious man," said an old lady, between a yawn and a smile, "and nobody ever could understand him."
Sir Thomas Lawrence lived for twenty years at No. 65, and while he was executing the portrait of Platoff, the Russian General, the Cossacks, mounted on small white horses, stood on guard in the Square before his door. Bloomsbury Square was at first called Southampton Square, and the sides were known by different names Seymour Row, Vernon Street, and Allington Row.
Nor did Isabella Vernon say a word to betray the fact that she had spent the whole of the previous day in precisely her present position, having carefully chosen a point of vantage from which any one coming along the road from Bessacre could not by any means fail to be visible to her. She scrambled to her feet. "I am so pleased to see you," she said.
So if I haven't always time to put their names you will know now which they are. Vernon, Yacht Sauterelle, Thursday morning. Dearest Mamma, The scenery we came through yesterday is quite beautiful, but I did not pay so much attention to it as I might have done, because Jean and the Comte would talk to me. You would be amused at Vernon, where we stayed the night in such an inn!
That evening the little party met at six o'clock in Mr. Southard's dressing room, where their dinner was brought in and served to them. Afterward Kathleen, Miss Southard and Evelyn sat in a box and saw Everett Southard and Anne in "The Merchant of Venice." After the theater came a little supper at the Southards' home to which Mr. Vernon, Kathleen's fiancé, was also invited.
Open instructions, signed by the President, were on the same day delivered to the Secretary of War, of which the following is a copy: "It is my desire that you embrace the first opportunity to set out on your journey to Mount Vernon and wait on General Washington with the commission of lieutenant-general and commander-in-chief of the armies of the United States, which, by the advice and consent of the Senate, has been signed by me.
Harry Vernon did not meet us and we started home by the loggers' trail. I lost Barbara by the pool. Something in the bush tried to creep up to us; a wolf, I think " "Oh, shucks!" remarked a frank Winnipeg girl who did not like Miss Hyslop. "In summer, you can't find a wolf south of Broken Range.
Poor Vernon Wycherley had fallen upwards of sixty feet perpendicularly, and had alighted on a projection of the ground, occasioned by a drift that had been made in the workings, which alone prevented him from being hurled to the bottom of the pit, which was of vast depth, though partially filled with water.
The servants flocked around him like children come to greet a returning father, and there was joy in the household and all over the estate of Mount Vernon. The master fairly revelled in the luxury of private life and the repose of domestic enjoyment. Yet he did not sit down, an idle man and indifferent spectator of passing events. "Let me pray you to have the goodness," he wrote to Mr.
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