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Without Wilkinson's troops, Burr declared most solemnly, a short time before his death, that he would not have made the attempt on Mexico; that he was perfectly aware the men he would collect, so far as it respected military operations, would be at first little better than a mob. Colonel Burr had repeated conferences on the subject with Mr.
Went to chapel and heard a little musique, and there met with Creed, and with him a little while walking, and to Wilkinson's for me to drink, being troubled with winde, and at noon to Sir Philip Warwicke's to dinner, where abundance of company come in unexpectedly; and here I saw one pretty piece of household stuff, as the company increaseth, to put a larger leaf upon an oval table.
Why should he sit like a fool before her merely because he had told her that on which he had long decided? But it was clearly Wilkinson's duty to have disembarrassed the lady as soon as possible. It was almost unmanly in him to be put thus beyond the power of speech or action. But still he poked the carpet and said nothing.
"I believe, my friend," he wrote, "I shall be obliged to fight and to flog them." Magnificent stage thunder. But to Wilkinson's chagrin the Spaniards withdrew of their own accord. Not a Spaniard remained to contest his advance to the border. Yet, oddly enough, he remained idle in camp. Why?
"Dictionary of English Plant Names," by J. Britten and Robert Holland. 1886. "English Plant Names," Introduction, p. xiii. See Folkard's "Legends," p. 309; Friend's "Flowers and Flowerlore," ii. 401-5. See "Flower-lore," p. 74. Friend's "Flower-lore," ii. 425. Garden, June 29, 1872. Johnston's "Botany of Eastern Borders," 1853, p. 177. Lady Wilkinson's "Weeds and Wild Flowers," p. 269.
"In General Wilkinson's barges," said Mr. Wharton leaning over and subsiding again at once. The General was the first to drink the toast, and he sat down very modestly amidst a thunder of applause. The young man on the other side of me, somewhat flushed, leaped to his feet. "Down with the Federal government!" he cried; "what have they done for us, indeed?
The rest of his fellow boarders were so much of a likeness, a kind of family likeness that spread all over Siegel Brothers and such parts of the city as Peter had been admitted to, that it was a relief to Peter to realize from his profile that J. Wilkinson's last name probably ought to have been spelled Cohen.
He served well and as he ran clumsily played close to the net: notwithstanding his club-foot he was quick, and it was difficult to get a ball past him. He was pleased because he won all his sets. At tea he lay down at Miss Wilkinson's feet, hot and panting. "Flannels suit you," she said. "You look very nice this afternoon." He blushed with delight. "I can honestly return the compliment.
Wilkinson's ordinary courtesies in a stately way, thanking him for filling her glass and looking after her plate, in a tone and with a look which made it plain to all that things were not progressing well between them. George and his Annie did get on somewhat better; but even they were not quite at their ease. Mrs. Cox had said, before luncheon, that she had not known Mr.
His face was pale and wrinkled under the grime, but he looked honest, and if his statement was sincere, as Charnock thought, it seemed to clear the ground. After giving him a few particulars about Festing's injuries, he lighted his pipe. "Wilkinson's not here to-day," he remarked. "He's not always here," said the smith. "He comes when there are picks and drills that want sharpening."
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