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And now this quiet woman is on her way down Broughton Street at twelve o'clock of a cold winter night, which, like her own mind, had only that calmness which results from the exhaustion of sudden biting gusts from the north, and therefore right in her face. She drew her cloak round her.
"I have not seen that: but I saw Slack and Broughton at Marybone Gardens!" says Harry, gravely; and wondered if he had said something witty, as all the company laughed so? "It would require no giant," he added, "to knock over yonder little fellow in the red boots. I, for one, could throw him over my shoulder." "Mr. Garrick is a little man. But there are times when he looks a giant," says Mr.
"Clara," said Mrs Broughton, "here is this mad painter, and he says that he will have you on his canvas, either with your will or without it." "Even if he could do that, I am sure he would not," said Miss Van Siever. "To prove to you that I can, I think I need only show you the sketch," said Dalrymple, taking the drawing out of his pocket.
"But why is your heart bleeding? What has happened in Hook Court?" Still she answered nothing, but she sobbed violently and the heaving of her bosom showed how tumultuous was the tumult within it. "You don't mean to say that Dobbs Broughton has come to grief: that he's to be sold out?"
Julien, William Gibbons, Hugh Butler, Francis Yonge, Jacob Satur and Jonathan Skrine, some of whom refused, and others qualified themselves, to serve. Alexander Skene, Thomas Broughton, and James Kinloch, members of the former council, being now left out of the new appointment, were disgusted, and joined the people.
Clap him down upon the counter, and he rings dull and untrue at once. Pardon me, my dear Conway, if I say the same of your excellent friend Mr Dobbs Broughton." "I think you go a little too far, but I don't deny it. What you mean is, that he's not a gentleman." "I mean a great deal more than that. Bless you, when you come to talk of a gentleman, who is to define the word?
They were spinning along the Broughton Road now, heading for Putney and Richmond, and Hal felt her spirits rising momentarily with the joy of the motion and comfort and fresh air. "We don't expect to get in on tea and buns; we expect to get it on whisky and beer.
"Captain Broughton," she said and she began her task the moment that they were both seated "you and I have engaged ourselves as man and wife, but perhaps we have been over rash." "How so?" said he. "It may be and indeed I will say more it is the case that we have made this engagement without knowing enough of each other's character." "I have not thought so."
Again, on February 3, 1747, James recurs, in a long letter, to what passed in 1742, 'because that is the foundation, and I may say the key, of all that has followed. Now in 1742 Murray of Broughton paid his first visit to Rome, and was fascinated by Charles.
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