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The crowd slunk, one by one, back under the darkness that was beneath the roofs of reeds, and the idea of a good day that for a moment had risen in their minds at Culpepper's legendary approach, sank down and flickered out once more in their hungry bellies and fever-dimmed minds. 'God! he said, 'we will have hangmen here, and pursued his search.
Some of the money was interest paid by farmers on their mortgages, some of it was partial payments but none of it was Colonel Culpepper's money. "Molly," said the colonel, as his daughter came into the office, "I've given a check for that that money, you know, to Adrian paid it in full, my dear.
The door was opened, and I found myself in the presence of Mrs Culpepper and her daughter, the heiress, as I afterwards discovered, to all Mr Culpepper's savings, which were asserted to be something considerable after thirty years' employment as purser of various vessels belonging to his Majesty.
Culpepper's hushed but harsh voice answered that they came out of Lincolnshire on the Norfolk border. This was the Lord Edmund's daughter. 'I have never seen her, the King said. 'Sh'ath never been in this town. The King laughed: 'Why, poor wench!
She did not want to flirt with Lord Lufton; she was not such a fool as that; but she would have liked to have heard the sound of his voice close to her ear, instead of that of Captain Culpepper's knife and fork. This was the first occasion on which she had endeavoured to dress herself with care since her father had died; and now, sombre though she was in her deep mourning, she did look very well.
He knew, too, that Viridus had Cromwell's earnest injunctions to send a messenger that should hasten Culpepper's return; and, though he had seven hundred of Cromwell's spies that he could trust to do Privy Seal's errand, he had not one that he could trust to do his own. There was no one of them that he could trust.
The Grand Cyrus: With a Pin stuck in one of the middle Leaves. Pembroke's Arcadia. Locke of Human Understanding: With a Paper of Patches in it. A Dictionary for the Explanation of hard Words. Sherlock upon Death. The fifteen Comforts of Matrimony. Sir William Temptle's Essays. Father Malbranche's Search after Truth, translated into English. The Academy of Compliments. Culpepper's Midwifry.
He had brought back three stage loads of settlers, and was selling lots in Culpepper's addition faster than they could be surveyed. The Frye blacksmith shop had become a wagon shop, and then a hardware store was added; the flag fluttered from the high flagstaff over the Exchange National Bank building, and all day long farmers were going from the mill to the bank.
"It was a shabby little collection of volumes, that parlour library in the 'Saracen's Head. There was an old family Bible, a torn copy of 'Culpepper's 'Herbal, the Homilies in inexpressibly greasy black calf, a book of songs, a volume called 'Evelina, which seemed chiefly remarkable for dashes and notes of admiration, and the book I chose.
"I believe it's my side somewhere about the body, I know; but I'm so stiff all over, that I can't tell exactly where. Something hit me, and I fell right down the hatchway; that's all I know about it until I found myself in my hammock." "Well, at all events, you won't be punished now for dropping the quid into Mr Culpepper's mouth."
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