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So Miss Hacket went away gratified, and Gillian owned that it would have been useless to wound the good lady's feelings by criticism, though her mother made her understand that if her opinion had been asked, or Connie herself had shown the verses, it would have been desirable to point out the faults, in a kindly spirit.
The agent who bought it and looked into the titles for my uncle, told me that it was sold, along with much other forfeited property, at Chichester House, I think, in 1702; and had belonged to Sir Thomas Hacket, who was Lord Mayor of Dublin in James II.'s time.
Mary helped her mother with the dishes, while I sat with a book by the fireside. Soon Mrs. Hacket and the children came and sat down with me. "Let's play backgammon," Mary proposed. "I don't want to," said John. "Don't forget Michael Henry," she reminded. "Who is Michael Henry?" I asked. "Sure, he's the boy that has never been born," said Mrs. Hacket.
I am too unlike Mary for her to stand being mothered by me. 'There must be some other influence at work for this perverseness to keep on so long. Tell me, did she take up with that very goosey girl, that Miss Hacket? 'Oh yes; she goes there every Sunday afternoon. It is the only thing the poor child seem much to care about, and I don't think there can be any harm in it.
With rapid, loud, and furious rattle, Sure 'tis the voice of deadly battle, Bidding the rustic swain to fly Before his country's enemy. 'Did anybody ever hear of a sham fight in the evening? cried the soldier's daughter indignantly. 'There, I can't see any more of it. 'Give it to me, then. 'You are welcome! Where did it come from? Let me look. C.H. Oh, did Constance Hacket write it?
'Ah! sighed Miss Hacket, looking at Gillian, and all the elders thought without saying that some terrible news of her father had to be told to the poor child. They let her go, frightened at the summons, but that idea not occurring to her. 'There! said Uncle Regie, 'she can set it straight. Don't be frightened, my dear; only tell this gentleman whether that is your writing.
Miss Hacket said she had been just feeding them when the G.F.S. girl arrived, and as Mysie came to a halt in delight at the aspect of a young one that had just crept out into public life, the sister was called to the window.
But whether his Unhappiness's I mean his Holiness's intention, is set for the welfare and utility of Christendom, or for his own insincerity and singular purpose, I remit that to God and to them that know more of the world than I do." Hacket to Cromwell: State Papers, Vol. VII. p. 506. John the Magnanimous, son of John the Steadfast, and nephew of the Elector Frederick, Luther's first protector.
'I beg your pardon, sir, but you have not asked the young lady' there was a sort of sneer in his voice 'how she sent this draft. 'Did not you send it direct by the post? demanded the magistrate. 'No; I gave it to Again she paused, and the words 'Gave it to ? were authoritatively repeated, so that she had no choice. 'I gave it to Miss Constance Hacket to send.
The English ambassador, Sir John Hacket, still remained at Brussels, and the two governments were formally at peace; but when Hacket required the queen-regent to forbid the publication of the brief of July in the Netherlands, he was met with a positive refusal.
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