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He did not wholly, however, sever his connection with the service, for later, after he had purchased an estate in the Border, and had married, he became a major in the Dumfries Militia. It is given to few to pass a youth so stormy as Kerr's, and to end, as he did, by becoming a peaceful, prosperous Border laird. "St. Agnes' Eve ah, bitter chill it was!
That's the best way out of it for her, and it will be the best way out of it for you if you intend to stay here and run this ranch." While Kerr's manner seemed to be patriarchal and kindly advisory, there was a certain hardness beneath his words, a certain coldness in his eyes which made his proposal nothing short of a threat.
His youth saved him. Kerr's captor, a warrior named Peewash, of the tribe of the Chippeways, dragged his prisoner home to his wigwam.
The goldfields came upon us with almost the suddenness of the changes of dreamland. We had had a slight graduation by the news, in the May preceding, from the sister colony, of a shepherd on Dr. Kerr's station, near Bathurst, having come upon a round hundredweight of nearly pure gold.
All the people of the house seemed to be running to and fro, but she didn't see Harry. This struck her with unreasoning terror. She fled up the drive, and Clara's small face at the window watched her. As she came into the hall she heard Kerr's voice.
His one grievance against us is that we shut a creek that he formerly used along inside our fences that forced him to range down to the river for water. As the creek begins and ends on our land it empties into the river about a mile above here it's hard for an unbiased mind to grasp Kerr's point of objection." "Have you ever taken a shot at him?" the Duke asked, smiling a little dry smile.
Gagliuffi is an Austrian, a native of Trieste, he has acquired all the English ideas of comfort, and speaks excellent English. As a remarkable exception, some one or two French papers did protest against this wholesale burning alive of an Arab tribe. See Mrs. Kerr's translation of the History of Servia. Mr. Gagliuffi's opinion of the Touaricks. Amazonian White-Washers.
This was so great that it seemed to submerge every faculty save that of hearing, to paralyze him so entirely that he could not lift a hand. That blow had all but killed him. "Let him alone he'll be all right in a minute," said Kerr's voice, sounding close to his ear as if he stooped to examine him. One was standing behind Lambert, knees against his back to prevent his entire collapse.
It was mainly at my good friend Kerr's urgent instance that I entered public life, which was in 1850, for the representation of Melbourne at Sydney. Doubtless he had his own aims quite as much as my interests in view, as he wanted the supposed good card, a Melbourne merchant, Scotch and Presbyterian like himself into the bargain, to play against the anti-Orange and Irish-cum-O'Shanassy party.
We will strike one more blow, and then, driving before us a couple of score of oxen for the use of the army, rejoin Wallace. Methinks we shall have taken a fair vengeance for Kerr's doings at Glen Cairn." The consternation of the few men left in the castle was great when, three hours after sunset, eight homesteads burst suddenly into flames.
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