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Hawkesbury was transferred to the home office, vacated by Yorke, and the new chancellor of the duchy of Lancaster, Lord Mulgrave, was given a seat in the cabinet. Of Pitt's eleven colleagues in the cabinet Castlereagh alone, who remained president of the board of control a wretched speaker though an able administrator had a seat in the lower house.
"'Muffin' of course!" snapped Redmond angrily, "what d'ye take me for? a 'rough-house meal ticket'?" "All right!" said Yorke soothingly, "don't lose your temper!" It may have been a shrewdly-calculated attempt to attain that end; and yet again it may have been only sheer mechanical habit that prompted him to stretch forth his hands in the customary salute of the ring.
"Would you believe that I and Huntley are to be passed over in the chance for the seniorship, and Yorke is to have it, without reference to merit?" "No, I do not believe it, Tom," quietly replied Mr. Channing. "But, even were it true, it is no reason why you should break out in that unseemly manner. Did you ever know a hot temper do good to its possessor?"
I got in and stood by the two Queenes and the Duchesse of Yorke, and just behind my Lady Castlemayne, whom I do heartily adore; and good sport it was to see how most that did give their ten pounds did go away with a pair of globes only for their lot, and one gentlewoman, one Mrs. Fish, with the only blanke.
After half an hour or more of this, we at last saw a chance of getting out of the rip into a side eddy; and, putting forth all our strength, we just succeeded in doing so, only to be menaced by a fresh and more alarming danger. Yorke, dashing the pouring perspiration from his brow with his hand, had just stood up to get a look at the brigantine and cutter, when he uttered an oath.
"And how many did you find with Yorke?" "Yorke stepped out to speak to some one just before I went to college," replied Arthur, obliged to allude to it, but determined to say as little as possible. "Hamish was here, sir; you met him coming in as you were going out, and I got him to stay in the office till I returned." "Pretty doings!" retorted Mr. Galloway. "Hindering the time of Mr.
They must mean Huntley." "I don't know who they mean," said Arthur, "but I am sure Huntley never did it. He is too open, too honourable " "And do you pretend to say that Tom Channing and my brother Ger are not honourable?" fiercely interrupted Roland Yorke. "There you go, Yorke; jumping to conclusions!
I cannot understand Stay! Captain Yorke was on the steps as I came out, hearing the shouts; did he witness this extraordinary occurrence?" "I told you the fugitive had concealed himself in the bottom of the sleigh before I entered it," said Betty, terror seizing her lest a chance word should implicate Geoffrey in the matter. "Would you have me turn a helpless man loose among your Hessians?
Yorke was lying in the skipper's bunk, and as I entered he extended both hands to me, and smiled cheerfully, though his left eye was covered with a bandage, and his brave, square-set face was white and drawn. "How are you, Drake, my boy? We had a narrow squeak, didn't we, from the niggers? And here is Captain Guest worrying and tormenting himself that he could not fire a gun to scare them off."
While lying near Zituni, Captain Yorke received news of a pirate named Macri Georgio, who two days before had plundered a schooner, and was apparently at large in two boats with sixty armed ruffians in the Gulf of Salonica.
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