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Nehemiah Blakiston, the Collector, and a few others, who seem to have been ministering to Lord Effingham's spleen against the Council for not capturing him. His Lordship writes several letters of complaint at the delay and ill success of this pursuit, and some of them in no measured terms of courtesy.
Yet the little old lady I remembered was neither of these things. "My dear Miss Blakiston," she wrote. "But I do hope you will use the house. It was because I wanted to be certain that it would be occupied this summer that I asked so low a rent for it. "You may call it a whim if you like, but there are reasons why I wish the house to have a summer tenant.
She kept her eyes on me, and after a time I realized that these two simple people feared me, feared for Miss Emily's gentle memory, feared that I good heaven! would make the thing public. "First of all, Miss Blakiston," said the doctor, "one must have known the family to realize the situation its pride in its own uprightness. The virtue of the name, what it stood for in Bolivar County.
Bubb Doddington, afterwards Lord Melcombe, who had written Mr. Mann a letter of most extravagant lamentation on the death of the Prince of Wales. I am mortified now at having printed the catalogue. Gideon the Jew, and Blakiston the independent grocer, have been the chief purchasers of the pictures sold already there, if you love moralizing! Adieu!
Blake, C.C., on the jaw from La Naulette. Blakiston, Captain, on the American snipe; on the dances of Tetrao phasianellus. Blasius, Dr., on the species of European birds. Bledius taurus, hornlike processes of male. Bleeding, tendency to profuse. Blenkiron, Mr., on sexual preference in horses. Blennies, crest developed on the head of male, during the breeding season.
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"Those bathrooms have cost much more than she will get out of it. You and I know that the price is absurd." He smiled at that. "If you wish to pay more, you may, of course. She is a fine woman, Miss Blakiston, but you can never measure a Benton with any yard-stick but their own. The truth is that she wants the house off her hands this summer. I don't know why.
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Blakiston, 'Ibis, 1863, p. 125. For the Cathartes and Ardea, Audubon, 'Ornithological Biography, vol. ii. p. 51, and vol. iii. p. 89. On the White-throat, Macgillivray, 'History of British Birds, vol. ii. p. 354.
I do know that we were both silent and that at last, with a quick breath, she reached out and thumped on the floor with a cane that stood beside the bed until a girl came running up from below stairs. "Get the shawl, Fanny, dear," said Miss Emily, "and wrap it up for Miss Blakiston." I wanted desperately, while the girl left the room to obey, to say something helpful, something reassuring.
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