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Meanwhile, being unquestionably "in power," Master Trench, Paul, Oliver, Grummidge, Stubbs, and several of the well-affected, took possession of the boat when ready, and, inviting Swinton to join them as a stroke of policy pushed off, with hooks and lines, to make the first essay in the way of fishing on the now famous Banks of Newfoundland.
"Unfortunately, and extremely do I regret it, the State of Virginia has taken the lead in this opposition.... It has been said that the great mass of the citizens of this State are well-affected, notwithstanding, to the general government and the Union; and I am willing to believe it, nay, do believe it.
Some attempts at reply were made by the poet's friends, notably A. H. Hallam, but the public did not take to him, and even well-affected and competent older judges, such as Coleridge, expressed very qualified admiration.
For an instant a dense group collected around the ball, which had been driven to within a hundred yards of the gate, and fifty hurdles were crossed in their endeavours to secure it, when the warrior, who formed the solitary exception to the multitude, in his blanket covering, and who had been lingering in the extreme rear of the party, came rapidly up to the spot where the well-affected struggle was maintained.
He talked to me as one talks to a man, not to a great god. Ula, I wonder if he knows my secret?" Ula started back in well-affected horror. "A white-faced stranger from the sun know your secret, O great king!" she cried, hiding her face in a square of cloth. "See me beat my breast! Impossible! Impossible! No one of your subjects would dare to tell him so great a taboo. It would be rank blasphemy.
As the army of Gates approached South Carolina, he had entered the north-eastern parts of that state with only sixteen men; had penetrated into the country as far as the Santee; and was successfully rousing the well-affected inhabitants to arms, when the defeat of the 16th of August chilled the growing spirit of resistance which he had contributed to increase.
On the 9th of March a premature and imperfectly organized insurrection occurred, directed against the Gironde. The demonstrators marched against the Convention, but were held in check by a few hundred well-affected provincial national guards. On the 10th it became known that Dumouriez was severely pressed by the Austrians and in danger of being cut off.
At that moment Lady Ranscomb and Walter Brock joined them, whereupon the former exclaimed to her daughter: "Did you see that woman over there? still playing the woman in black and the jade beads, against whom Monsieur Courtin warned us?" "Yes, mother, I noticed her. I've just been telling Hugh about her." "A mysterious person eh?" laughed Hugh with well-affected indifference.
That he would have the goodness to dismiss Marquis de la Chetardie the French Ambassador, as a plainly superfluous person at a well-affected German Court in present circumstances;" person excessively dangerous, should the present Majesty die, Crown-Prince being so fond of that Chetardie.
He set down his glass with shaking fingers, and directed his companion's attention towards me. They talked together earnestly for several moments. I fancied that she was reproving him for showing alarm at my notice. Very soon, however, she herself, after giving an order to a waiter, turned slightly round in her chair, and glanced with well-affected carelessness across at me.
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