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Carlyle in error Correspondence of Frederick with Earl Marischal The Earl's account of English plotters Frederick's advice Encouragement underhand Arrest of Archy Cameron His early history Plea for clemency Cameron is hanged His testimony to Charles's virtues His forgiveness of his enemies Samuel Cameron the spy His fate Young Edgar on the hidden treasure The last of the treasure A salmo ferox.
But several precious days were wasted, and on the morning of the 25th such a storm sprang up as mortal mariner rarely encountered even off such a coast a violent north-easterly hurricane still known in Algiers as "Charles's gale" such as few vessels cared to ride off a lee shore. The immense flotilla in the bay was within an ace of total destruction.
Mazarin might lend help; or, if he did not, the Prince of Orange, the husband of Charles's eldest daughter, and now Stadtholder of Holland, might be expected to do all he could for his father-in-law consistently with the limited powers of his Stadtholdership. A Dutch port might be more convenient than a French one for the embarkation of the refugees collectively or in detachments.
"Be still, Roddy dear, or you will certainly wake him." "I'll not go if it is to grieve you," I cried. "Nay, dear, you must go, for it may be the one great chance of your life. And think how proud it will make us all when we hear of you in the company of Charles's grand friends. But you will promise me not to gamble, Roddy? You heard to-night of the dreadful things which come from it."
The Puritans, loving music but detesting it in their churches, forced it into purely secular channels; and we cannot say the result was bad, for the result was Purcell. John Jenkins and a host of smaller men developed instrumental music, and, though the forms they used were thrown aside when Charles II. arrived, the power of handling the instruments remained as a legacy to Charles's men.
Mortimer looked at his watch "in exactly one hour and a quarter." "He being the heir?" "Yes. On the death of Sir Charles we inquired for this young gentleman and found that he had been farming in Canada. From the accounts which have reached us he is an excellent fellow in every way. I speak not as a medical man but as a trustee and executor of Sir Charles's will."
Tells also of Charles's troubles, and introduces his son Wenceslaus. Shows why this son should be considered as the "Good King Wenceslaus" of our Christmas carol. Makes mention also of Sister Anne and her husband, Richard II of England. Tells about Susanna and the King.
It was draped with cobwebs like celestial clouds; it was dark, but gradually the forms of rakes, hoes, spades and a watering-pot cleared themselves from the gloom and Charles's head bloomed above his coat like a great pale flower. She put out her hand and drew it back again. She found nothing to say. Outside the sun poured down its rays like fire. Henrietta's head drooped under her big hat.
The first letter, from its allusion to the Westminster Scrutiny, must have been written in the year 1784, Mr. Fox having gained his great victory over Sir Cecil Wray on the 17th of May, and the Scrutiny having been granted on the same day. "London, June 6. "I am happy to find by your last that our apprehensions on Charles's account were useless.
Woffington was to come to us to-day?" cried she, struggling passionately against her own fears and Sir Charles's innuendoes. "What!" cried he; "you recognized her? You detected the actress of all work under the airs of Lady Betty Modish?" "Lady Betty Modish!" cried Mabel. "That good, beautiful face!" "Ah!" cried Sir Charles, "I see you did not. Well, Lady Betty was Mrs. Woffington!"
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