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I have engaged the post-horses at two o'clock; but I shall be with you to-morrow or the day after. You see his tutor expects him; and as he is backward in his mathematics, he has no time to lose." "Well, then, good-bye, nephew!" and Beaufort slipped a pocket-book into the boy's hand.
In answer to Lord Colambre's inquiries, he named the works which had afforded him the most satisfaction; and with discriminative, not superficial celerity, touched on all ancient and modern authors on this subject, from Spenser and Davies to Young and Beaufort. Lord Colambre became anxious to cultivate the acquaintance of a gentleman who appeared so able and willing to afford him information.
In a month Jane Beaufort gave Livingstone an amnesty; he, not the Stewart family, not the queen- mother, now held James. To all this the new young Earl of Douglas, a boy of eighteen, tacitly assented.
But now, like Anne of Austria, she was devoting her time to prayers and to the preservation of what beauty remained. "So De Brissac is dead?" said Beaufort seriously. "Ah well, we all must die. I hope he has straightened up his affairs and that his papers fall into worthy hands." The prince glanced covertly toward Mazarin. "But it was all his own fault.
There Sir Patrick and his wife were holding a consultation. Their means were well-nigh exhausted. What they had collected for their journey was nearly spent, and so was the sum with which Cardinal Beaufort had furnished his nieces.
He spoke to Beaufort as a man of the world to Blackwell as a lawyer. "Pin the man down to his generosity," said Lilburne, "before he gets the property. Possession makes a great change in a man's value of money.
For him there is no longer savour in the viands, or sparkle in the wine, man delights him not, nor woman neither. He is alone with Old Age, and in the sight of Death. With the exception of Simon, who died in his chair not many days after Sidney's marriage, Robert Beaufort is the only one among the more important agents left at the last scene of this history who has passed from our mortal stage.
The scene at Beaufort House, the thought of Laura, and all that had been said there, mingled strangely and wildly with everything that had taken place afterwards, and nothing seemed certain, but all confused, and indistinct, and vague. But still there came a cry from the bottom of his heart: the cry of "Onward! onward! onward! towards the fated future!"
I should tell you, that I received this morning a letter from my son Arthur, announcing his return from Baden, so we must give him the meeting a very joyful one you may guess. We have not seen him these three years. Poor fellow! he says be has been very ill and the waters have ceased to do him any good. But a little quiet and country air at Beaufort Court will set him up, I hope."
We were very much in want of light-draught steamers for navigating the shallow waters of the coast, so that it took the Seventeenth Corps more than a week to transfer from Thunderbolt to Beaufort, South Carolina.
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