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He had visited Glenfield before, and he had some curiosity to see familiar objects again. It was nearly dark, and he wondered where the major's brother was going at that hour. "Where are you going now, Mr. Percy," he asked, as he approached the agent. "I thought I would go up to the house and see my mother," replied Percy. "Won't you go over with me? It is only a short distance."
Hev to come from New York to Glenfield to git the reel thing, ye see." "I see!" laughed Hilda, springing lightly from the wagon. "I'll call for ye in 'bout half an hour;" and with a kindly nod the farmer drove away down the street.
If you use collars, I can inform you that Glenfield starch is the only starch used in the laundries of our most gracious Sovereign; I tell you this in confidence, as it is not generally advertised. To return to the culinary department.
At the end of an hour by the midshipman's watch, they felt like new men, and they resumed their places in the boat, and pulled two hours longer, which brought them to the inlet at Glenfield. At the rude pier where the Bellevite had been moored lay a topsail schooner. "I don't find any fault, Mr.
"She is the lady of whom I spoke to you; she spent the last winter with her uncle at the Glenfield Plantation. I am interested in her," replied Mulgate, as though he had given a sufficient excuse for the questions he had put to Corny. "Are we to capture her and take her back to the State of Alabama?" demanded the other, who seemed to be a gentleman of forty at least.
Without a doubt he was Major Pierson, since the naval officer had addressed him by this name and title. He had often met the young lady at Glenfield Plantation, and possibly his sudden visit to the North had not been without some thought of her. However it may have been with her, he was at least very much interested in Miss Florry.
During the fortnight that Charlton and his sister visited in Glenfield, Albert divided his time between trying to impress Katy with the general unfitness of Smith Westcott to be her husband, and the more congenial employment of writing long letters to Miss Helen Minorkey, and receiving long letters from that lady.
"You are too modest by half, Mr. but I have not even the pleasure of knowing your name, and conversation is annoying under such circumstances." "I am simply Midshipman Passford, at your service." "Only a midshipman!" exclaimed Lonley. "Upon my word, you ought to be a commodore. Passford? Possibly you are a cousin of Colonel Passford of Glenfield." "Colonel Passford is my uncle.
Homer had married in the South, and was the father of a son and daughter, now approaching their maturity, and Corny, the son, was a soldier in the Confederate army. The most affectionate relations had always subsisted between the two families; and before the war the Bellevite had always visited Glenfield, the plantation of the colonel, at least twice a year.
"And they will send a searching party out to your uncle's estate at Glenfield; but of course we shall not go near there," said Flint. "That is just where I am going," replied Christy, decidedly, "for that is where I expect to kill one of the birds with the stone I fire. But we had better be moving, for we have a long tramp before us."
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