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However, she walked soberly enough with wide eyes of amazement and delight at everything the long, silver track of the snowy road under the light of the full moon, the slants of the house roofs sparkling with crusts of crystals, the lighted windows set with house plants, for the dwellers in the outskirts of Rowe loved house plants, and their front windows bloomed with the emulative splendor of geraniums from fall to spring.
New leaks broke out every day; the engine pump gave way; the bridge broke down; three compartments filled at night; except the cabin and front compartment all was flooded; and in a few days we were assured by Rowe that "she can't be worse than she is, sir."
Rowe regularly took to her room for the day, leaving the accounts and the keys wholly to Lucy, and the kitchen to Jane with strict injunctions to look after the Reverend Horace Mohun's tea and his round of toast if he called and let him see the Times before it went up to the general sitting-room.
Rowe spoke of the world made me think he must have seen a good deal of it, and when we had looked our last upon the island, and had crept with lowered mast under an old brick bridge where young ferns hung down from the archway, and when we were once more travelling between flat banks and coppices that gave us no shelter, I said to the barge-master "Have you ever been at sea, Mr. Rowe?"
He discovered Sartorius in his own bedroom, sorting out the contents of his black leather bag. "Have you seen Miss Rowe, doctor?" he demanded rather abruptly. With a visible effort the big man tore his attention away from his occupation. "Miss Rowe?" he repeated vaguely. "Oh, yes, I believe she left the house a little while ago." "But wasn't she going with you?"
"And we've read the Bible through," said Fanny, "because we read in a paper once that that was a complete education. We made up our minds we'd read it through, and we did, though it took us quite a while." "And we take Zion's Herald, and The Rowe Gazette, and The Youth's Companion," said Eva.
Pope, in a letter to Edward Blount, Esq; dated February the 10th, 1715. 'There was a vivacity and gaiety of disposition almost peculiar to Mr. Rowe, which made it impossible to part with him, without that uneasiness, which generally succeeds all our pleasures.
Rowe called "Aits," and the bridges where the mast had to be lowered, all the craft on the water the red-sailed barges with one man on board the steamers with crowded decks and gay awnings the schooners, yachts, and pleasure boats and all the people on shore, the fishers, and the people with water-dogs and sticks, the ladies with fine dresses and parasols, and the ragged boys who cheered us as we went by everything we saw and heard delighted us, and the only sore place in my heart was where I longed for Rupert and Henrietta to enjoy it too.
The Morning Post stated, that yesterday Sir Brian and Lady Newcome entertained at dinner His Excellency the Persian Ambassador and Bucksheesh Bey; the Right Honourable Cannon Rowe, President of the Board of Control, and Lady Louisa Rowe; the Earl of H , the Countess of Kew, the Earl of Kew, Sir Currey Baughton, Major-General and Mrs. Hooker, Colonel Newcome, and Mr. Horace Fogey.
No single wound the gaping rupture seems, Where trickling crimson flows in tender streams; But from an opening horrible and wide A thousand vessels pour the bursting tide; At once the winding channel's course was broke, Where wandering life her mazy journey took. Rowe.
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