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And, in a lower tone, Westbury besought young Mr. Esmond to take no part in the quarrel. "There was no need for more seconds than one," said the Colonel, "and the Captain or Lord Warwick might easily withdraw." But Harry said no; he was bent on going through with the business. Indeed, he had a plan in his head, which, he thought, might prevent my Lord Viscount from engaging.
The Westbury is ten miles away. You go across the moor " "My good Ware, have I lived all these years in this place without knowing it as well as I know my own nose? Hold your tongue, or I'll tell you nothing. The coachman who drove these Princesses of yours" Mrs. Parry always used this phrase disdainfully "is a new man. Morris hired him from Chelmsford, and he does not know Anne, luckily for her.
Westbury was a native of natives. His own homestead at the foot of the hill the old-fashioned white house already mentioned had been built a generation or two after ours, when with prosperity, or at least the means of easier accomplishment, the younger stock had gone in for a more pretentious setting.
Oh, there is nothing more precious in this world than the dream of a possibility like that, when one is still young enough, and strong enough to make it come true! "This was the kitchen in the old days," Mr. Westbury said. "They cooked over the fire and baked in that oven.
If you have ever undertaken a job like ours you have a pretty good idea of our debt to William C. Westbury. And this was not all oh, by no means!
I ventured, trying to be calm. "Best trout-brook in the township. Ain't it, Ed?" to the driver. "Has that name," Ed assented, nodding. "I never fish, myself, but I've seen some good ones they said come out of it." We were up the hill by this time, and Mr. Westbury waved his hand to a sloping meadow at the left. "That's one of the fields.
He held poor Will Mountford in talk that night, when bloody Dick Hill ran him through. He will come to a bad end, will that young lord; and no end is bad enough for him," says honest Mr. Westbury: whose prophecy was fulfilled twelve years after, upon that fatal day when Mohun fell, dragging down one of the bravest and greatest gentlemen in England in his fall. From Mr.
"And you can help me by saying where Anne has gone to." "Oh, my good man, you must find that out for yourself! I believe she has gone to London with those Princesses of yours. At least that fool of a Morris said they left his inn this morning early to go to London. They drove to the Westbury Station. That is the one we hardly ever use down here. The Barnham Station is the nearest." "Yes! yes!
In the end we made an inside walk of the collection, for the old cellar had a dirt floor and was not always dry, but we laid them face down. When we had raked and swept, and brushed and put back the articles accepted by the board, and all was trim and neat, Westbury looked in.
"Well I do; watch me." Leaving the horse in charge of a lad and calling on the others to "come on," Frank, with his brother and Billy, raced toward the Golden Eagle's shed. Most of the crowd followed them. "He's one of them flying kids," shouted a man. "He's never goin' ter fly ter Westbury ter-night. It's as black as yer hat."
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