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Updated: June 11, 2025
A new carpet and a little fresh cretonne is all that is needed. And I know Alwyn agrees with me." "Very well, then, we must bring Mr. Gaythorne to reason." "I took Mrs. Crampton into confidence," went on Greta, "when she showed me the kitchen and store-rooms. What a nice creature she is, and how admirably she manages!
They are such as will do no discredit to my household, and I hereby appoint you to it; further matters I will discuss with your uncle." Oswald expressed his thanks in suitable terms, and then, bowing deeply, retired. "A very proper lad, Alwyn.
"Alwyn said that, three times during the fray, the young esquire saved his life, by cutting down men who were attacking him from behind, while he was occupied by other opponents in front." "He will make a valiant knight, some day, Sir John. Sir Henry Percy would not have written so strongly about him, had he not good reason for feeling that he would not do discredit to his recommendation.
"Don't you know that Colonel Cresswell will attach our cotton for rent as soon as it touches the warehouse?" "But it's ours." "Nothing is ours. No black man ordinarily can sell his crop without a white creditor's consent." Alwyn fumed. "The best way," he declared, "is to go to Montgomery and get a first-class lawyer and just fight the thing through.
Mother and father too both think she is good to the backbone; but she is very pretty, with just the inane soft sweetness that men rave about innocent really. All accounts of her are excellent, and she has nice parish ways, and will be as helpful as Uncle Alwyn will let her. 'But she couldn't always have been nice? 'Well, I verily believe it was all Uncle Alwyn's and grandmamma's fault.
The knight reported their proceedings, after leaving Ludlow, and concluded: "It is like that the story would not have so run, Sir Edmund, had it not been for the bravery shown by the northern men, under the young squire Oswald and his captain, Alwyn.
And though Alwyn only nodded in answer to this, Marcus was sure that he understood him; but as he stood by the hall fire caressing Eros he could not help feeling very anxious.
"Teerswell," he whispered, "you know I was working to be Register of the Treasury. Well, now, when the scheme of making Alwyn Treasurer came up they determined to appoint a Southern white Republican and give me a place under Alwyn. Now, if Alwyn fails to land I've got no chance for the bigger place, but I've got a good chance to be Register according to the first plan.
On quitting the Tower, Alwyn regained the boat, and took his way to the city; and here, whatever credit that worthy and excellent personage may lose in certain eyes, his historian is bound to confess that his anxiety for Sibyll did not entirely distract his attention from interest or ambition.
"Then one traitor monk shall die ere I retreat," cried Hereward, seizing him by the throat. "For Heaven's sake, hold!" cried Torfrida, seizing his arm. "You know not what he may have to say." "I am no traitor, Hereward; I have fought by your side as well as the best; and if any but you had called Alwyn " "A curse on your boasting. Tell us the truth." "The Abbot has made peace with the King.
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