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Littlepage?" she asked, changing colour at the freedom of her own question. "In a war like this, no one can say when he may be called on to go out," I answered. "But, only as a defender of the soil, if at all." I thought Anneke Mordaunt seemed pleased with this answer. After a short pause, she resumed the dialogue. "Of course you understand Latin, Mr.
She no sooner heard the name of Littlepage, than she threw a meaning glance towards the young female friends, mine following and perceiving Anneke colouring highly, and looking a little distressed. As for Mary Wallace she appeared to me then, as I fancied was usually the case whenever Guert Ten Eyck approached her, to be struggling with a species of melancholy pleasure.
The next morning, bright and early, we got into a hired wagon and drove across the country until near night, when we paid for our passage, sent the vehicle back, and sought a tavern. At this house, where we passed the night, we heard a good deal of the "Injins" having made their appearance on the Littlepage lands, and many conjectures as to the probable result.
If there were hounds and hunting, now, as there are at home, you should never hear of me at a cock-fight, I can assure you." "I must say I do not approve of cock-fights," rejoined my mother meekly; "and I hope Corny will never be seen at one. No never never." "Dere you're wrong, Matam Littlepage," the Colonel remarked, "for ter sight of ter spirit of ter cocks wilt give ter boy spirit himself.
First, there had been Brigadier General Evans Littlepage, who held that rank in the militia, and died in service during the revolution. The next was Brigadier General Cornelius Littlepage, who got his rank by brevet, at the close of the same war, in which he had actually figured as a colonel of the New York line.
Grant, of Laggan, in her memoirs of an American Lady; thus corroborating the fidelity of the pictures of our ancient manners, as given by that respectable writer, by the unquestioned authority of Mr. Cornelius Littlepage. "Masters, it is proved already That you are little better than false knaves; And it will go near to be thought so, shortly." Dogberry.
Herman Mordaunt had requested nothing might be said to the major of my engagement; though an early opportunity was to be taken by himself, to let the suitor understand that Anneke declined the honour of his hand. It was thought the information would best come from him. "I shall be frank with you, Littlepage, and confess I have been very anxious for the union of my daughter and Mr.
Littlepage should pay rent to your brother." "But what reason is there that these Littlepages should go on from father to son, from generation to generation, as our landlords, when we're just as good as they. It's time there was some change.
After this he seemed to me to sink back in a sort of brooding lethargy, as if indisposed to pursue the subject. I left him to go to my uncle, in order to relate what had just passed. Mr. Roger Littlepage was as much astonished as I had been myself, at hearing that one so aged should have detected us through disguises that had deceived our nearest of kin.
"The near-horse is eleven," I said, "and the off-horse is supposed to be " "Poh! poh! Littlepage," interrupted Guert, making signs to me to be quiet "you may think the off-horse ten, but I should place him at about nine. His teeth are excellent, and there is not even a wind-gall on his legs. There is a cross of the Flemish in that beast."
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