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"Henry, do you remember what George Bayley said that might in meeting, about the river of Lethe, in which, souls were bathed and forgot the past?" "I remember something about it," he answered. "There is such a river. It was not a fable. It has been found again," she cried. "Come and sit down, dear don't excite yourself so much.
"Do you know, Harry," he said, one day, "what a rum crest, as they calls it, I asked the butler what it meant, and he says as how it was the crest of the family Captain Bayley has; he's got it on his silver, and I noticed it when I was in the pantry to-day helping the butler to clean some silver dishes which had been lying by unused for some time.
He was afraid that something might be said by Deacon Tuttle or Deacon Miller, who were good men, but not very subtile in their spiritual insight, which would still further alienate the unfortunate young man. His own intention of finding opportunity for a little private talk with him after the meeting was, however, disappointed by the promptness with which Bayley left the room.
People in the county, wishing to take the early mail Portsmouth-ward, put up overnight at the old tavern, famous for its irreproachable larder and soft feather-beds. The tavern at that time was kept by Jonathan Bayley, who rivalled his wallet in growing corpulent, and in due time passed away. At his death the establishment, which included a farm, fell into the hands of a son-in-law.
I was hovering around the skirts of the crowd and seeking for an opening, when a hand pulled me off my feet. "What'll ye be afther now?" said a voice, which was Terence's. "Let me go," I cried, "I have a message from Lieutenant Bayley." "Sure," said Terence, "a man'd think ye had the Hair Buyer's sculp in yere pocket.
The first editor of the Illustrated London News one of the pioneers in the elucidation of news by means of pictures was an Irishman, Frederick Bayley. Among the projectors of Punch, and one of its earliest contributors, was a King's county man, Joseph Sterling Coyne. The founder of the Liverpool Daily Post , the first penny daily paper in Great Britain, was Michael Joseph Whitty, a Wexford man.
We 'heef' in an English Area for about a year, coming into barracks for one month to make up wastage. Then we may 'heef' foreign for another year or eighteen months. Then we do sea-time in the war boats " "What-t?" I said. "Sea-time," Bayley repeated. "Just like Marines, to learn about the big guns and how to embark and disembark quick.
I may run across in September; if I do, we shall probably meet." "Miss Mary Pepper?" suddenly asked a man with a huge basket of flowers, and pausing in front of her. Young Mr. Bayley smiled indulgently as he could not help reading the card thrust into the flowers.
Her disappearance was a nine days' wonder in Worcestershire. Some said she had turned Roman Catholic and gone into a convent; others that she must have eloped, although with whom no one could guess. But at last the subject died out, until two years later Captain Bayley and his household appeared in mourning, and it was briefly announced that his daughter was dead.
"You've been hung up, Sir. I I thought the sand-pits 'ud stop you." Said one of the jerseyed hobbledehoys at the gun, slipping on his coat: "Well, that's enough for this afternoon. I'm off," and moved to the railings without even glancing towards the fray. "I anticipate the worst," said Bayley with gravity after a few minutes. "Hullo! Here comes my disgraced corps!"
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