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She strode ahead of him, silent, through the wet bracken, her frock growing a limp rag as it brushed aside the glistening ferns. As she struck the broader path to the house, the cackling laugh of a goat chained to a roadside log followed her cynically. Where had she heard this bleat before? Ah, yes, from the Marquis of Woodham. Walter Bassett had spoken truly.
The breaches of covenant were easily proved, although they had been assented to by the parson, which assent I had carelessly and confidingly neglected to obtain from him, either in writing or before witnesses. Mr. ABRAHAM MORE, an eminent barrister upon the Western Circuit, was employed, and conducted the inquiry for Mr. Attorney Woodham. Mr.
This time Amber did not even inquire what it indicated she was almost content to take it as an endorsement of Walter Bassett's epigrams. But Lord Woodham eagerly improved the situation. "A fine stroke that," he said, "but a batsman outside a team doesn't play the game." "It will be a good time for the country, Lord Woodham," Mr.
If he had been his own elder brother, he'd have got in long ago." "Oh, you mean he never gets into Parliament," said Amber. "Serve him right. I believe he's one of those independent nuisances," said the old Marquis of Woodham. "How is one ever to govern the country, if every man is a party unto himself?"
He shrugged his shoulders and moved towards the door. "I'm going to bed," he said. "That's right," she agreed, and rose and began to clear the table. Uneasily he stood and watched her. "Where does the Registrar live?" he asked suddenly. "The Registrar?" "Yes. I want to go to-morrow and put up the banns, or whatever it is one does." "Of course, of course. Well, the registrar's named Woodham.
Tolshunt and Lord Woodham, in their apprehension of the common foe, began to find each other endurable. If it was politics that attracted her, Tolshunt felt he too could stoop to a career. As for the Marquis, he began to meditate resuming office. Both had freely hinted to her Ladyship that to give a millionaire bride to a man who hadn't a penny savoured of Socialism.
They were as good as their words, for they tried all sorts of ways to injure my credit, and not succeeding to their wishes, an action was commenced against me, by a man who is clerk to the Magistrates, a Mr. Woodham, an attorney at Winchester, in the name of Mr. Williams, for breaches of covenants while I occupied Cold Henly Farm. I called on Mr.
Williams, who denied having ever given any orders to Woodham to commence the action; he said that Woodham had urged him to do it, but that he refused to do so, and he wished every thing to be settled amicably.
Of the daughters of Customer Smythe, Mary married Robert Davye, of London, Esq.; Ursula married, first, Simon Harding, of London, Esq., and secondly William Butler, of Bidenham, in Bedfordshire, Esq.; Johanna was the wife of Thomas Fanshawe, of Ware Park, Herts, Esq.; Katherine was first the wife of Sir Rowland Hayward, Lord Mayor of London, and secondly of Sir John Scott, of Scott's Hall, in Kent; Alice married Edward Harris, of Woodham, in Essex, Esq.; and Elizabeth, the sixth and youngest daughter, was the wife of Sir Henry Fanshawe, Remembrancer of the Exchequer, father of Sir Richard Fanshawe, the ambassador.
"No speech!" she gasped. "None save to your adorable ear and the moonlit waters. Woodham has lent us his yacht " "In the middle of a Cabinet Crisis?" "Which concerns me less than anybody." And he beamed happily. "Less than anybody?" she repeated. "Yes since it is my resignation that makes the crisis." She fell back into a chair, white and trembling. "You have resigned!" "For ever.
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