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Three to two was offered in my own bar- parlour. D'you know what the bettin' is to-day?" "I have not been out yet." "Then I'll tell you. It's seven to one against your man." "What?" "Seven to one, gov'nor, no less." "You're talking nonsense, Warr! How could the betting change from three to two to seven to one?"
Thence I to Westminster, to my barber's, and found occasion to see Jane, but in presence of her mistress, and so could not speak to her of her failing me yesterday, and then to the Swan to Herbert's girl, and lost time a little with her, and so took coach, and to my Lord Crew's and dined with him, who receives me with the greatest respect that could be, telling me that he do much doubt of the successe of this warr with Holland, we going about it, he doubts, by the instigation of persons that do not enough apprehend the consequences of the danger of it, and therein I do think with him.
abusing the Duke of York and my Lord Sandwich, Pen, and every body, and the King himself, in all the matters of the navy and warr. I am sorry for my Lord Sandwich's having so great a part in it. Then to supper and musique, and to bed. 15th.
As a matter of policy the foreigner had first place in the list of exemptions. But the "thing was New to them to go aboard a Man of Warr," so they declined the invitation, "having the Notion of being sent to Carolina." Admiralty Records 1. 1437 Letters of Capt. Trade, too, looked upon the foreigner as her perquisite, and Trade must be indulged.
That these ships will with their convoys carry above 2,000 men, and those the best men that could be got; it being the men used to the Southward that are the best men for warr, though those bred in the North among the colliers are good for labour.
They don't eat greens and taters where you come from! Oh dear no; not at all! 'That's it, is it? Then, I take vedge. 'If s an extra penny, mind you. You pays on Saturday. The boy turned to Mr. Warr, who made his choice also. A little later a voice said 'Halt! and there was a clatter of composing-sticks laid smartly down on the cases.
In March, 1843, came the death of Southey, and in a few days Wordsworth received a letter from Earl De la Warr, the Lord Chamberlain, offering him, in the most courteous terms, the office of Poet Laureate, which, however, he respectfully declined as imposing duties, "which, far advanced in life as I am, I cannot venture to undertake."
More than this, and later than the Port Royal building, Frenchmen Jesuits that! were trying a settlement on an island now called Mount Desert, off a coast now named Maine. The Virginia Company-doubtless with some reference back to the King and Privy Council De La Warr, Gates, the deputy governor, and Dale, the High Marshal, appear to have been of one mind as to these French settlements.
Warr, who at a gesture had followed Darco from the theatre, appeared with a basket in his hand, and was followed by a man who bore a larger basket on his shoulder. 'The governor sends his highly superior compliments, ladies and gentlemen, said Mr. Warr, 'and his polite request that you will be so very kind as to forget the dinner-hour. Sandwiches, ladies and gentlemen.
'My dear sir, said Paul, 'I never spoke a word in public in my life. I can't do it. 'That's all right, my poy, said Darco. 'You've got to do it. There was no arguing the matter. Mr. Warr was despatched in the fly to gather the members of the company. Darco thrust into Paul's hands the part he had to study, and went off tranquilly to his own room to sleep.
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