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To his flock, as they surrounded him in the open air, he boldly preached that it would be much better for them to die in a fair field than to await the tortures inflicted by such magistrates as Archibald Jacob, Hunter Gowan, and Hawtrey White.
Ellis and the Women of England; to all schoolmasters, from Doctor Hawtrey down to Mr. Squeers. Out of Court, out of Court, fat old Florizel! Beadles, turn out that bloated, pimple-faced man! If Gorgius MUST have a statue in the new Palace which the Brentford nation is building, it ought to be set up in the Flunkeys' Hall.
The game was up, but, after all, if he got his 3,000 dollars he could be satisfied, for he had already extracted a good many from Hawtrey one way or another. "If I were you I'd marry that girl right away," he said. "You'd be safer if you had her to look after you." Hawtrey let the jibe pass. For one thing, he felt that it was warranted, and just then his anxiety was too strong for anger.
Dissimilar in character, as they were, the two men were firm friends, and there had been a day when, as they worked upon a dizzy railroad trestle, Hawtrey had held Wyllard fast when a plank slipped away. He had thought nothing of the matter, but Wyllard was one who remembered things of that kind. "Now," said Hawtrey, after a long pause, "you see my trouble.
There was a certain wryness in her companion's smile, for though Hawtrey had cast no particular slur upon the family's credit he had signally failed to enhance it, and he was quite aware that his English relatives did not greatly desire his presence in the Old Country. "My dear," he said, "you really shouldn't hit a fellow in the eye that way."
It is regarded as a mere luxury; but we do not make the mistake of substituting gymnastics for games, and removing the pleasure of personal performance. Why can we not also do something to encourage what old Hawtrey used so beautifully to call "the sweet pride of authorship"? The worst of it all is that we look so much to tangible results.
He wore a white shirt and store clothes, which was distinctly unusual in case of a Western farmer at harvest time, and Edmonds, the mortgage-jobber, leaned back in a big chair quietly watching him. Edmonds had called at a singularly inconvenient time, and Hawtrey was anxious to get rid of him before the arrival of the guests that he expected.
A half moon, coppery red with frost, hung low above the snow-covered earth, and there was no sound but the crunch beneath the runners, and the beat of hoofs that rang dully through the silence like a roll of muffled drums. Sleighs like the one that Hawtrey drove are not common on the prairie, where the farmer generally uses the humble bob-sled when the snow lies unusually long.
Perhaps, too, amid the prairie snow, it gains something that gives it a closer compelling grip. Hawtrey was breathless when it ceased, and Sally's eyes flashed with the effulgence of the Northern night when her partner found her a resting-place upon an upturned barrel. "No," she declared, "I won't have any cider." She turned and glanced at him imperiously. "You're not going for any more either."
The only vessel that I could make any arrangement about not yet returned, and known to be in such a state that the pumps were going every two hours. Kerr. But there is, I fear, none other, and I am in a difficulty. Of the same day is a letter to the Rev. Stephen Hawtrey: 'Taurarua, Auckland: May 6, 1861. 'My dear Mr. Hawtrey, I was highly pleased to receive a note from you.
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