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In one of the most categorical stories, Ralph leaned forward and interrupted. "Forgive me, Master Layton," he said, "but who is Master What's-his-name who says all this?" The priest waved the paper in the air. "A monk himself," he said, "a monk himself! That is the cream of it." "A monk!" exclaimed Ralph. "He was one till last year," explained the priest. "And then?" said the other.
Frequently also the dates and places of residence appear. Even the very dates of ownership and the quaint old names are interesting. Bathsheba Spalding, Noca Emmons, Elam Noyes, Titherming Layton, Engrossed Bump, Sally Box, Tilly Minching, Zerushaddi Key, Comfort Vine these are a few of the odd signatures I have found in old books.
It is imperative that he should do so. The happiness of his whole life depends upon his success. Until that mystery is solved he cannot marry the woman he loves." "Do you mean Helen Layton?" Margaret's syllables might have been so many mortal daggers. "Yes." "Is David still in love with her?" "Yes." "And she with him?" David Hume broke in: "Yes, Rita. She has been faithful to the end."
In 1535, on the eve of the Suppression, Battle Abbey was visited by the infamous Layton who reported to Thomas Cromwell that "all but two or three of the monks were guilty of unnatural crimes and were traitors," adding that the abbot was an arrant churl and that "this black sort of develish monks I am sorry to know are past amendment."
It had been raining 'most every day for three weeks, and it was just in haymaking time, and everybody thought the hay was going to be ruined, and old Layton got up and prayed that God would send gentle showers on the growing crops, and I heard Uncle Roger whisper to a fellow behind me, 'If somebody don't choke him off we won't get the hay made this summer." Alexander Scott of Markdale.
At present no one in the settlement possessed a sufficient knowledge of the interior of the country to lead a party, especially among savages who would probably prove hostile. Roger and Gilbert wished to set out by themselves, but Captain Layton positively forbade his son going, and Mistress Audley, by his advice, put the same prohibition on Gilbert.
Layton, whom he had chanced to meet on a train, that the motor boat which had run down Larry and his companions had been found in a remote inlet some distance down the coast, where it had evidently been deserted by the men who had stolen it.
He says that it is concluded among merchants, that where a trade hath once been and do decay, it never recovers again, and therefore that the manufacture of cloath of England will never come to esteem again; that, among other faults, Sir Richard Ford cannot keepe a secret, and that it is so much the part of a merchant to be guilty of that fault that the Duke of Yoke is resolved to commit no more secrets to the merchants of the Royall Company; that Sir Ellis Layton is, for a speech of forty words, the wittiest man that ever he knew in his life, but longer he is nothing, his judgment being nothing at all, but his wit most absolute.
Nevertheless, he was not a little astonished to find Helen Layton awaiting him in Margaret's boudoir. The girl showed signs of recent agitation, but she explained her presence quietly enough. "Mrs. Capella sent for me when your note reached her, Mr. Brett.
Indeed I am innocent" his voice rose thin and high in his panic indeed, I did not know it was treason that was preached." "Did not know?" sneered the doctor, leaning forward over the table. "Why, you know your Faith, man " "Master Layton, Master Layton; there be so many changes in these days "
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