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Newman gathered, with a curious mixture of freedom, devotion, and awe for, with unlimited power of sympathy, he was exacting and even austere in his friendships the best men of his college, either Fellows R. Wilberforce, Thomas Mozley, Frederic Rogers, J.F. Christie; or old pupils Henry Wilberforce, R.F. Wilson, William Froude, Robert Williams, S.F. Wood, James Bliss, James Mozley; and in addition some outsiders Woodgate of St.
His vivid imagination had pictured the long table, laid for six-and-twenty, with four persons huddled at one end; but the telegrams had come in time to have the table reduced to its normal size, and Langholm found a place set for him between Mrs. Woodgate and Mrs. Steel. He was only embarrassed when Rachel rose and looked him in the eyes before holding out her hand.
And really I begin to clamor too; for she is full of some mysterious news, which she won't tell me till you are there to hear it also. Be an angel, for five minutes!" Woodgate wiped his pen in his deliberate way. "Probably one of the girls is engaged," said he; "if so I hope it's Sybil."
"Profit by this information, young man," said old Woodgate, severely; "it comes too late for me. In my day there existed no sure method of pleasing the fair. But now that is invented, along with everything else. Richmond and absence, equivalent to 'Richmond and victory! Now, Bassett, we have heard the truth from the fountain-head, and it is rather serious. She swears, she kicks, she preaches.
The present specimen was perhaps more methodical than most; therein it was characteristic of the man. From May to September, Mr. Woodgate never failed to finish his sermon on the Friday, that on the Saturday he might be free to play cricket with his men and lads.
There were four outposts, under Woodgate, Theobald, Lippert, and Mangles. The attack at 2.15 on a cold dark morning began at the post held by Woodgate, the Boers coming hand-to-hand before they were detected. Woodgate, who was unarmed at the instant, seized a hammer, and rushed at the nearest Boer, but was struck by two bullets and killed. His post was dispersed or taken.
She had changed in these summer months. She wanted to be more like other wives. There was Morna Woodgate, with the work cut out for every hour of her full and happy days; but Morna had not made an anomalous marriage, Morna had married for love.
Langholm; but he knew no more than the man in the moon." "And who told Mr. Langholm, of all people?" pursued Morna Woodgate. "It is not often that we get news of the real world from him!" "Birds of a feather," remarked her caller: "it was Mr. Steel himself who wrote to your other eccentric friend, and told him neither more nor less than I have told you.
Woodgate, each of them a centre of influence in Oxford and the country. It was not Roman in the devoted Charles Marriott, or in Isaac Williams's able and learned pupil, Mr. Arthur Haddan. It was not Roman in Mr. James Mozley, after Mr. Newman, the most forcible and impressive of the Oxford writers.
Her manner declared her to be not unacquainted with the contents of the letter, and Langholm treated the declaration as though spoken. "And is she not going to see that poor fellow?" he asked. "At once," said Morna, "and I am going with her. She is to call for me with the phaeton at three." "Do you know anything about him, Mrs. Woodgate?" "All."
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