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The surgeon, only half-undressed, was fast asleep, not within, but on the outside of the bed-clothes. Somewhat disgusted at the sight, for Elmsley was comparatively abstemious, he shook him not very gently, when the doctor, opening his eyes with a start, half-rose upon his elbow. "Ha!" he exclaimed, "I know you mean to say that breakfast is waiting; I had forgotten all about it, old fellow."
Still you ought to have reported the circumstance to me, and not acted on your own responsibility." Lieutenant Elmsley bit his lip, and could scarcely control a movement of impatience.
Sir Henry clasped Lucy's sweet face to his own bronzed one, pushing back her white bonnet to take his kiss from it. Then followed Lady Verner, then Decima, then Mary Elmsley. Lucy shook herself free, and laughed. "I don't like so many kisses all at once," said she. Lionel was everywhere. Shaking hands with old Mr.
He mentions the Honourable Robert Hamilton, a member of the Legislative Council, and the two Chief Justices, Elmsley and Powell, as among the largest purchasers of these lands. Mr. Hamilton's acquisitions amounted to about a hundred thousand acres.
"No interruption, Elmsley hear me to the close close within the doorway, I repeat, lay the dead body of Mr. Heywood his face much disfigured and his large frame almost rigid in a pool of clotted blood.
"Now that we are on the subject, dear Miss Heywood," remarked Elmsley, "let me once for all disabuse you of an impression which I fear you entertain or is it so? Do you think that Ronayne has had an opportunity of joining the party at the farm?" "Certainly, I do," she answered, gravely, "or why should he have gone forth? Pray do not rob me of what little comfort, in expectation, I have left."
"D n your military prudence, and d n your pompous cold-bloodedness!" muttered the fiery ensign between his teeth scarcely waiting until his captain was out of hearing. "Hush," interrupted Elmsley in a whisper. "He will hear you. Ha!" he continued after a short pause, during which they moved on towards the mess-room, "you begin to find out his amiable military qualities, do you!
He was ready, and stood in his place to receive his guests; a tall man, of some five-and-thirty years, with a handsome face and pleasant smile upon it. He greeted his old friends cordially, those with whom he had been intimate, and was laughing and talking with the Countess of Elmsley when the announcement "Lady and Miss Verner" caught his ear. It caused him to turn abruptly.
"The boat is nearing the landing-place, sir," reported the sergeant of the guard, who now came up, and more immediately addressed Lieutenant Elmsley. This information, for the moment, banished the subject under discussion. "Let the men pile their arms," ordered Captain Headley; "and when this is done, Mr. Elmsley, follow me to the landing-place." In a few minutes both officers were there.
A slightly self-conscious smile crossed the lips of Lionel. "You are surely not going to introduce again that nonsense about Mary Elmsley!" he exclaimed. "I should never like her, never marry her, therefore " "Did you not allude to her when you spoke but now that it was not Lucy Tempest you should make your wife?" "No." "To whom, then? Lionel, I must know it." Lionel's cheek flushed scarlet.
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