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In order to meet the emergency of his situation, he ordered out on the 3d day of October, 1780, a strong foraging party, under Major Doyle, consisting of four hundred and fifty infantry, sixty cavalry, and about forty wagons, who proceeded up the road leading from Charlotte to Beattie's Ford, on the Catawba river, intending to draw their supplies from the fertile plantations on Long Creek.
When Tarleton's cavalry were on the point of leaving, they took the blanket from the cradle in which James Ormand, the baby, was lying, and used it as a saddle-blanket, and the large family Bible of Benjamin Ormand was converted into a saddle!! The Bible was afterward found near Beattie's Ford, on the Catawba river, in the line of the British march, and restored to its proper owner. Mr.
The maid, with what seemed to Lydia's raw consciousness an ironical courtesy, invited her into the library and left her there in its twilight tranquillity. Lydia stood still, holding one of her pathetically small, hard-worked hands over her heart, and shortly, to her gratitude, Sophy was back and asked her to go up to Madame Beattie's room.
He and she both knew it was Esther, and a little more likelihood of Madame Beattie's blackguarding Esther in print must rouse him to command the situation. Jeffrey finished his row, and then hurried into the house. It was the late afternoon, and he went to his room and dressed, in time for supper. Lydia, glancing at him as he left the table, thought exultantly: "I've stirred him up, at least.
I don't want to shoot them, but I'd rather like to get away from them." "Mother," said Alston, "what's come over you? Is it this book?" She laughed, in an easy good-humour. "I believe it's that old Madame Beattie." "What's Madame Beattie done that any " he paused; Esther's wrongs at Madame Beattie's hands were too red before him "that any lady would be willing to do?"
Other descendants of the same patriotic family reside in Chester county, S.C. One of his daughters married George Houston, who, with a Spartan band of twelve or thirteen brave spirits, under Captain James Thompson, beat back a British foraging party of over four hundred soldiers, at McIntyre's Branch, on the Beattie's Ford road, seven miles north-west of Charlotte.
'Talking of the eminent writers in Queen Anne's reign, Johnson observed, "I think Dr. Arbuthnot the first man among them." Ante, i. 425. 'We found that by the interposition of some invisible friend lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers. Works, ix. 3. He is referring to Beattie's Essay on Truth.
"You'll be worn out!" he exclaimed. "No, I shan't But even if I were it wouldn't matter." "But I want you to look your radiant self for Beattie's dinner." "Oh the dinner!" It seemed she had forgotten it. "Robin comes first," she said firmly, after a moment of silence.
"I hoped " But what he hoped he kept himself from saying. "I must," said Esther, with a little deprecatory look and another significant one at Madame Beattie's back. "Good-bye." She threw Lydia, in her scornful silence there in the background, a smile and nod. "But " the colonel began. Again he had to stop.
"Game Eyes" for Wild Sports Enjoyments of Wild Life Cruelty of Sports Native Hunters Moormen Traders Their wretched Guns Rifles and Smooth-bores Heavy Balls and Heavy Metal Beattie's Rifles Balls and Patches Experiments The Double-groove Power of Heavy Metal Curious Shot at a Bull Elephant African and Ceylon Elephants Structure of Skull Lack of Trophies Boar-spears and Hunting-knives "Bertram" A Boar Hunt Fatal Cut.
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