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"Greed," said Dunstable unkindly, "seems to be the besetting sin of the Menzies'. Well, what are you going to do about it? I don't wish to threaten, but I'm a demon when I'm roused. Being done out of my tea is sure to rouse me. And owing to unfortunate accident of being stonily broken, I can't go to the shop.
Lachlan accepted his commission with quite unusual diffidence, and offered a very free translation on the way home. "It wass a mercy to hef you at the meeting this night, Donald Menzies, for I saw that Satan had come in great strength, and it iss not every man that can withstand him. But you will not be ignorant of his devices; oh no, you will be knowing them fery well.
"After some conversation on the current war news we retired, and I immediately proceeded to my room and wrote out this paper. "We were present at the interview described in the foregoing paper of Mr. Crisfield, and we certify that the substance of what passed on the occasion is in this paper, faithfully and fully given. "J. W. MENZIES, "J. J. CRITTENDEN, "R. MALLORY. "March 10, 1862."
Menzies about it to-morrow, and of course I'll talk to Struan. He is difficult it's very tiresome of him. I saw him this afternoon but had no notion of all this. I can't think how it is. Nerves, I suppose. He's a human creature, you see, as well as a gardener." Mrs. Benson was incapable of seeing such a possible combination: her explanation was simpler. Human! She scorned him.
He imagined that Benson while, for the benefit of Menzies, ostensibly endeavoring to make the arrangements agreed on, had in reality preceded the pilot on board in order to warn the captain of the proposal, and arrange with him some excuse for keeping the ship where she was for the night.
I gave a thought now and again to my new-born happiness, but the thrill of joy was as quickly stifled by bitter shame by a vision of the dead man who had returned good for my meditated evil. Flora was in the care of Mrs. Menzies.
In the morning it is green and groweth up this was Mrs. Benson's piece, but Minnie had the rest of the stage. The saddle-horse came flinging into the yard at one o'clock no later. That's certain, because Frodsham was at his after-dinner pipe or should have been: instead of which he came running in after him. Just about that time, or maybe a little before, Mr. Menzies had been asking for Struan?
We have the honor to be, with great respect, "C. A. WICKLIFFE, Ch'man, CHAS. B. CALVERT, GARRETT DAVIS, C. L. L. LEARY, R. WILSON, EDWIN H. WEBSTER, J. J. CRITTENDEN, R. MALLORY, JOHN S. CARLILE, AARON HARDING, J. W. CRISFIELD, JAMES S. ROLLINS, J. S. JACKSON, J. W. MENZIES, H. GRIDER, THOMAS L. PRICE, JOHN S. PHELPS, G. W. DUNLAP, FRANCIS THOMAS, WILLIAM A. HALL." "WASHINGTON, July 15, 1863.
Captain Rudstone and I made our way up to him, and saw that further progress was barred by a slab of rock that fitted exactly across the passage. "It will yield with a hard push," said Menzies. "Wait!" said I. "Let us first blow out the lantern." This was done, and the three of us put our weight to the stone. It grated like rusty iron, gave way slowly, and went down with a crunching noise.
"The late James Menzies of Culdares, having engaged in the rebellion of 1715, and been taken at Preston, in Lancashire, was carried to London, where he was tried and condemned, but afterwards reprieved. Grateful for this clemency, he remained at home in 1745, but, retaining a predilection for the old cause, he sent a handsome charger as a present to Prince Charles, when advancing through England.
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