COLONEL QUARITCU, V.C. A TALE OF COUNTRY LIFE,
BY H. RIDER HAGGARD, AUTHOR OF "KING SOLAMON'S MINES," ALLAN QUADTREMAIN," "JERS," "SHE" &c, &u
[Now Firat Pallisket,],
CHAPTER L` ·
HAROLD QUAKITCH MEDITATES,
and yet bearing upon a votal
way was a large boireas, had gone off her head, Presumably with grief and been confined in an isybum, where she was believed still to remain.
Perhops it was the thought of this one woman's lace, the woman he had once seen walking down the drift, her zure mned out against the stormy sky, that led him to think of the other face, the face biddon in the madhenso. At any rate, with a sigh, or rather & groan, he swung himself round from the gate and began walking homeward at a brisk pace.
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tint walls was suficient to show. In ancient
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bad climate, that Egypt, as I have good reason to know," and he pointed again to his white hat, which, as Harold maritsh now observed for the first time, was enciraled by a broad black band
"Ah, I see," said he; anppose fast yon havo had a los."
"Yes, dir, a very heavy lola.”
....
Right before them was the gateway of the esatie, flanked by two great towers, and that with the oxception of some ruine, was, as a matter of fact, all that remained of the antiest baikling. which had boon effectually dollshed in the time of Cromwell. The sisse within, where the keep had pues stood, was now laid out as n fewer
otherwise. Woll, he's gone, poor fellow, in the C
service of his country, like many of his ancestors, before him, and there's an end of him,"
(To be continued)
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Now Colonel Quaritel had never heart that { garden, while the house, which was of an nupte PAID-UP CAPIMAL $ 400,000 Mr. de la Molla had more than one child, Ida de tontious nature, and built in the Jacobean style, in Moile, the young lady whose face had occupied the south side of the square, and wa remained so strongly fixed in his memory, al placed with the back to the moat. The drift that he was following was known though he had scarcely spoken to her on that
You see I have practically rebait those two as the mile drift, and had in ampicat, times form one cosion five long years ago. Conld it he towers," said the Squire, pansing andoracath the There are some things and faces which, when ad this approach to the gates of Tonham Castle, possible that she had died in Figypt. The iden Norman archway. If I had not done it," he felt or soon for this first time, project themselves the seat of the ancient and honourable family sent a tremar of fear through him, though of added, apologetically, they would have haon pon the mind like a sun image on a sous tive of de la Molio (sometimes written Delamel course there was no real reason why it should nas by now, but it cost & pretty penny, I can tell you. Nobody knows what stuff that old
Houghong, 30th March, 1888. plate and thera remain analterably fixed. To in history and ancient writing) Heaham Deathe are so common. inke the case of á fscs-wa may never ass it Castle tran now nothing but a ruin, with a ma Not-nat Mins de la Mollo ho said, ner-int masonry is to deal with, till he tries 6. NORTHERN ASSURANCE COMPANY. again, or it may become the companion of or nor house built out of the wreck of one side of vously, adding, "I had the plessure of gesing Wall, it will stand now fair way a long day.
ut there the picture is just as we first knew the squary, and the broad war that led to her anne, s good many years ago, when I was And here we reant he pushed open a porch THE Undorsigued baring been appointed Denteros
door and then passed through a passage into a
Agents, in conjunction with N. Devawongso it, the samo sails, the same look, unaltering and from the high road which ran from Bolaingham, stopping here for a few days with my aunt.” unalterable, reminding us in the midst of olsure the lounl contry town, was a drift or grass lane. Oh, no, not Ide, she is alive and well, thanks kind of oak-panelled vestibule, which was hung TURNEE & Co., for the above Company, are Dubarg of the absolutely indestructiblo nainro of ovary Colonel Quarital followed this drift till h God. Her brother Jampe. Ele went all with tapestry originally taken, no doubt, from the prepared to ACCEPT RINKS against FIRE Fatsban
Flintebice experienes, net, Lasi, Repcot of our lifa. For that came to the high road, and then turned to the through that wrstoked was which we owe to old cofie, acil decorated with costs of armour, at Current Rates.
W. HEWETT & Co. · Bailoring which has been, is, ainen the past knews no left. A few minutes walk brought him to a Mr. Gladstone, as I say, though I don't know per lisade, and ancient swords.
Hongkong, 8th June, 1888.
[1086 Hankow ite froze and compisted self. change and no omruption, but lives eternally in drivs eponing out of the main road on the left as what your politics pre, and then caught a fever, And here it was that Harold. Quaritch once
Honstr be faced towards Baisingham. This drive, or as I think got touched by the sun, and diode bold thus far that had haunted his THE LONDON ASSURANCE H These are somos hat large words to be born of which was some three hundred yarda long, on his way home. Poor boy! Ho was a fine memory for so many months. a small matter, but they rose up spontaneously led up a rather sharp slope to his own place, fellow, Colonel Quaritoh, and my only son, bat in the mind of a soldierly-looking man who was
Henham Cottage, or Molehill, as the villagers very rackloss. Only a month or so beforo he leaning, on the particular evening when this liv-vulled it à title osloplated to give, a kar im- died. I wrote to him to be careful always to put tory spons, over a gate la an Fhsturn ouuntry pression of a neat spin, and span red brick ville towel in his kelmet, and be answered, in that lane, staring vacantly at a ripe Held of corn.
with a slate root. As a matter of fact, however, flippant sort of way, that he had, that he was He was a peculiar and rather battored looking it was nothing of the sort, being a building of not going to turs himself into a dirty olotio individual, apparently over forty years of age, the fifteenth century, sa a glance at its massive bag, and that he rather liked the host than stamp of dignity and self-respect which, if it does times there had been a large Abbey at Bolsing not exclusively belong to, is yet one of the dis- han two miles away, which, as the records show, tinguishing attributes of the English gentle- in the fifteenth century, suffered terribly from gan. In face hà ưa ngly, no other word can an optbrook of the plague. After this the monks express it. Here were not the leng mustachios, obtained by grant from the de la Molle or the the almond eyes, tho aristocratic air of the Go-day ten acres of land, known as the Molehill, Ingel of Betina-for our dreamer was a Colonel. and a named either on account of ita resemblance They weremalas! that the truth should be no to a molchill, of which more presently, or after plain-represented by somewhat terabby, sandy the family. On this slovated spot, which was Colored riskera, all hut kindly blue eyes, append to be profily bon thy they you for blad low brand forthend, with a deep dine running ile house now known as Honham Cottage, scrote it from side to side, something like that to whareto to fly when text the plague should be seen upon the bust of Julius Cesar, and a visit them. long thin hose. One good festare, however, he And as they built it, so, with some slight ad. dil possees, a month of such sweetness and beauty ditions, it had remained to this day, for in those that set, as it was, shove a very square and ages men did not skimp their flint, and oak, and manly-looking ship, it had the air of being ludi mortar. It was a beautiful little apot, upon the crously out of place Cph," said his old fut top of a swelling hill, which comprised the unt, M. Mary (who had just died and left ten acres of grazing ground originally granted, him what she had), on the cossion of her firet and was, wonderful to say, to this day the most troduction to him fre and thirty years before, magnificently-timbered piece of ground in the Umph! Nature meant to make a pretty girl of country sido. For on the fan sores of grass you, and changed her mind after she had anish land there were over fifty great oaks, acre of el the month. Well, never mind, better: be. u them pollards of the most enormous antiquity, Flain man than a pretty woman. There, go and others which Lad originally, no doubt, grown along, boy, I like-your ugly faces,
very close together, fine upstanding trees with a wonderfal length and girth of bole. This place old Mrs. Massey, Colonel Quaritch's annt, had bought nearly thirty years before when she besamos widow, and now it had, together with a modest income of two hundred a year, passed to him under her will
a
And again the old man sighed, heavily this time. "And now, Colonel Qaaritah," he went on, baking off his oppression with a curious rapidity that was characteristic of him, "what do you say to coming up to the eastia. for your dinner. You must be in a miss here, and I expect that old Mrs. Jobson, whom my man George tells me energh to be rid of you for to-night. What do you say take the place as you find it, you know. I know that there is a leg of matton for dinner if there is nothing else, because instead of said. ing his own business I saw George going off to Boisingham to fetch it this morning. At least, that is what he said that He was going for: just an exouse to gossip and idle, Z faney.
Well, really," said the Culonel, you are very hind; but I don't think that my dress clothes are unpacked yet..
"Droga clothes! Oh, never mind your dress clothes. Ids will exonse you, I daresay. Besides, 500 have no time to drass. By Jare, it's nearly seven o'clock; we must be off if you are coming.
The Colonel besitated. He had intended to dins at home, and being a methodical-minded man did not like altering his plans. Also, be was, like most old military men, very punctiliora about his dress and personal appearance, and objected to geing out to dinner in a shooting coat. But all this notwithstanding, a fooling that he did not quite understand, and that it would have puzzled even an American novelist to analyse-something between restlessness and ouriesity, with a dash of magastio astraation thrown to-got the botter of his scruples, and he want..
"Well, thank you, he said, "if you are bure that Mies de la Molle will not mied, I will core. Just slicw me to tell Mrs. Jobson."
"That's right," bolloand the Spriçe after him. I meet you at the back of the house. We had better go through the folds."
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Nor was the old lady peculier in this reapeot, for plain as the conatecancy of Colonel Harold Quaritch undoubtedly was, people found some thing very taking about it, when one they got used to its ranged air and stern regulated or pression. What that something was it would be hard to deliue, but perhaps the nearest approach
Shaking himself clear of his, sad thoughts, to the truth would be to describe it as a light of Harold Quaritch turned round at his own feunt parity which, notwithstanding the popular idest door to contemplate the scene. The loog, to the untrary, is to be found quits as often upon single-sturied houss stond, as has been said, at the faces of mes as upon thois of women. Any the top of the rising land, and to the south xod person of discernment in looking at Colonel West and east commanded as beautiful a view as Qaaritch inast have felt that he was in the preis to be seen in that county. There, a mile or so sance of a goed mas, not a prig or a milkap, away to the south, situated in the midst of grassy hat a man she had attained to virtue by thought grazing grounde, flanked on either side by still and · struggle that had left their merk upon his perfect towers, frowned the massive gateway off fa, man whom it would not be wall to impar the old Norman Castle. Then, to the west, with, and one to be respected by all, and fenrei almost at the foot of the Molehill, the ground of evildoers. Meu falt this, and he was popular broke away in a deep book plothed with timber, By the time that the Colonel, having informed among those who know him in his service, which lot the eye down by slow descents into the his housekeeper that he should not want any though not in any hail-follow-well-mot kind of beautiful valley of the E. Hore the silver dinner, and hastily brushed his not too luxuri Pay. But among women he was not popular. river wound its gentle way through lush and ant locks, had reached the garden that lay e As a rule they both foured and disliked him. poplar-bordered marshes, were the cattle stand bind the house, the Squire was nowhere to be His presence jarred upon the frivolity of the knee-deep in flowers; past quaint worden millen. Presently, however, a loud hollos from Fighter members of their sex, who dimly realised houses, through Boiningham Old Common, windy the tog of the tamulus-like bill annomeed him that his nature was antagonistic, and the more looking even now, and brightened bare and there whereabouts Wondering what the old gen. dotes could not understand him. Torhape with a dash of golden gorse, till it was lost in tleman could be doing up there, Harold Qnaritch this was the reason why Uclone] Quaritoh had the picturesque cluster of red-tiled roofs that walked up the stops that led to the summit ofACCONE'S SHENRY, FORT navor married, had never even had a love affair marked the ancient town. Look which way be the mound, and found him standing at the
would, the view was lovely, and equal to any to entrance to themashroom-shaped summer-bonesHOCKS, BURGUNDY. since he was five-and-twenty
And yet it was of a woman's face that he was be found in the Eastern counties, where the contemplating the view. thinking as he leant over the gafe, sud looked scenery is fine encogh in its own way, whatoret: at the field of yellowing oorn, andulating Hike People, whose imaginations are so wook that gelden sea beneath the pressure of the wind.
they regaire a montain and a torrent to excite Colonel Queritoh bad twice in his life benn at them into activity, may choose to say to the Hoolam before the present this, when he had contrary come to abide there for good and all, once ten, and
Boliud the house to the north there was no suce four petes ago. His old sunt, Mrs. Massey, Fiow, and for a good reason, for hero in tho Tery bar a place in the village-a rory swall place-iddle of the back garten ross a mound of large sulled Honham Cottage or telekill, and he had onize and curious stape, whist osmpletely shut the those two occasions hean dowa to stay with budscape out. What this mound, which may per Now, Mrs. Massey was dead and buried, and haps have corrod half as are of ground, was bil bis the proporty, and he had given op hegobedy bed any idea. Some learned folk said that profession, in bich he had no further prospects, it was a Suxon tumalus, & prosumption to which end couse to live at Honbam. This was his first its ancient name, Dead Man's Monst," seemed eroning in the place, for be bad arrived by the last to give colour. Other folk, however, yet more "That's right. Never out down a good tree it train on the previous night. All day he had earred, enclared that it was an ancient British you can help it. I'm sorry to say, however," he bean buay trying to get the bows a little straight dwelling, and pointed triumphantly to a hollow added after a pause, that I have been forced to and now, thoroughly tired of the task, he was the fog, wherein the ancient Britishors were out darn a good many myself. Queer place this, refreshing himself by lening over a gate. It is supposed to have moved; lived, and had their isn't it," he continued, dropping the subject of the though a great many people will not bellors it, bing, while must, urged the opposing party, hare trees, which was evidently a painfal one to him. one of the most delightful refreshments in the Massey, whic was a British dwellingita, proceeded | bero call it, and that is what they called it at the they are suitable for a vessel about 630 tona, or FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY, OF 1877 been a very damp dau, Thuron the late Mrs. Dead Man's Mount is what the people about fittings, tested to 150 Ths. to the square inch; York.
And then it was, as he leans over the gate, to show with much triumph how they had lived time of the Conquest, as I can prove to you from would be very suitable for driving stationary that the inango of a woman's fagy regu before his in the bee by building a huge mushroom-shaped ancient writings. I always believed that it was on with Undersigned Agents of the above minil as it had been continually rising for the roof over it and thereby turning it into a summers tamilss, but of iste years a lot of these clever in diameter, double rivotted, with 4 Galway's last five year. It was five years since he had ise, which, owing to nnarpocted difficulties in peopta have boon taking their oath that it is an Patent l'UBES in each. 1 Large STRAM and Egypt, that is, with the exception of six money. But as the roof was afsted, and as it was Britons, or anyone else for that matter, could 16-HF. ENGINE 1. Steam PUMP. 9 Hori- sen it and these five years be bad spent in India the construction of the roof, erst a great deal of ancient British dwaling, as thongh Ancient LATROW ENGINE and BOLLER, 2. Verbal RISKS af Current Rate
BOILIES. I Siam FINE ENGINE BOILER, months which he had passed in hospital, as the found acessary to pave the hole with tiles and Eve in a kind of drain-hole. But they get on ontal and 1 Diagonal Steam WINCHES 1 rait of an Arabispear thrust in the thigh. It cut surface drains in it, the result did not olarly the soft side of your old Auct who by the way, Large FRAMING MACHTY, 1 EMERY TOOL hal risen before him in all acrte of places and Proveite as a dwelling place before the Roman begging your pardon, was a wonderfully at all sorts of times, ir his sleep, in his waking j'house. Indeod, it any served on a store place for her head, and as she set to work and built this LATHE, 8 inch Centre, 8 feet bad. 2 DRILLING conquest. Nor did it make a very good aurariar obatiants old lady when ones she got an idea into GRINDER. 5 Boxes TAPS and Dres. 1 GAP the gardénors" fools and for rubbish generally.
mcments, at mess, ont shooting, and evon. once in the hot rush of battle. To remembered it wall-it was at El Teb. It happened that steru mpressity forced him to shoot a man with pistol. The ballet cut into the spine of his ensmy, and with a few convulsions he died. watched him die, he could not help doing
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CHAPTER II
THE COLONEL Mners Tax SquIRE. Suddenly, as Colonel Quarites acontemplat whole he had done well to note and live at Hon. ing these various views and reflecting that on the
Thero, Colonel," he said, "there's a perfect view for you Talk about Scotland and tho Alps Give me a view of the valley of Ell frem the top of Dead Man's Mount on an antams
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there was some fascination in following the atham Cottage, he was started by s lead volte sa of his own hand to its dreadful conclusion, and lating him from avont twenty yards distance indeed conclusion un commencement word very with such a prenliar rigour that a fairly jumped of that. It would be worth doing. Hnilor. it near together. The terror of the sight, the *Colonal Quaritch, I believe," said, or rathor terror of what in Jefence of his own life he had shouted, the voice from stewhere down the is twarty minutes past revan, and we dine at been forced to do, revolted big even in the heat drive.
half past shall patch it from Ida. Come on, of the fight, and then, even fagy, over that
"Yes," answered the Colenu, mildly, here Colonel Quaritoh: 'you don't know what it is to ghastly, agony-distorted face, another face hed I am."
hero & daughter a daughter when one is lats sproad itself like a mask, blotting it out from
Ab, I thought it was you. Always tell a for dinner is a serious thing for any man," and view that women's face. And now again it re-military man, you know. Excuse me, but I am he started off down the bill in a hurry. aree, inspiring bin with the rather recondita resting for a minute, this last pull is an uncom
Foxy soon, however, he seemed to forget the reßections as to the immutability of things and monly stiff out. I always ared to tell my dear terrors in store, and strolled along, stopping impressions with which this domestic record old friend, Mrs. Marssy, tast she ought to have now and again le admire seras parcular oak or opens.
Five years is a good stretch in a man's journey roes for it," and after a fer heavy stope the visi mauer, which, though it was somer bas
the hill cut away a bit jast hers. Well, hereview: chatting all the while in a discursive through the world. Many things happen to us in the emerged from the abadow of the trots into by no means without its sharm. He was that time. If a thoughtful man were to set to sunset light which was playing on the terrace of quarto, who like to hear of her people talk. An
capital companion for a silent mun like far- work to racord all the impressions that impinge before the house. upon bis mind during that period, be would fill &: Colonel Quaritch glanced up curiously to res In this way they got down the slope, and passing library with volumes, the mero tale of its events who the owner of the great voice might be, and through a couple of wheat fields cams to a ame For comprehensiveness and practical service would furnish a shelf. And get bow swall they bis eyes lit upon as thin as specimen of humanity session of browlineadows. somewhat sparsely this Waric stands unrivalled. All the ow ars to look back upon. It butt the other as he had seen for a long while. The man was mbered, through which the footpath ran right words whink the Chinese have of lute years bean day that he had bien lescing ever this very gate, old, as bis white hair showed, seventy perhaps, ap to the grim gateway of the ancient castle, compelled to coin to express the numerous ob
but that was the only sign of decay about him. black, with a spray of honeysuckle stack in hor He was a splendid man, broad and thick and lines of fire against the raddy background of tho and in solenes generally, which the rapid advance gilo, and a stick in her hand, walking, leisurely strong, with a koon, quiele eye, and a lace sharply sy
of foreign relations has imposed upon them, cre down the inne There was something about the ebiseled, and elaan shaved, of the stamp which
"Ay, ie a fine old place, Colonel, so it here given in extemen. Each and every word is girl's sir that bad struck him while she was yet in novels is generally known as saistocratic a said the Squire, watching the exclamation of ad- fully illustrated and explained, forming exercise LABOF STOCKS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION or Blaag way offa dignity and a gruse, and a pot face that, in fact, showed both birth and broad-miration that breke from his companion's lips, for students of a most-instructive nature. Both of the shoulders and thou as she came nearer being. Tudeed, as clothed in loose tweed garments as a sudden turn trenght them into line with the Court and Punti pronunciations are given saw the soft dark eyes and the waving brown hair and a gigantic pair of top boote, his visitor stood the Norman rein. History that's what it is. the Bronte haing carefully marked on the beat that contrasted so strangely and effectively with there, leaning on his long stick said reeling him history in stone and mortar, this in historio principle hitherto attained. The typography the pale and striking face. It was not a beautiful self aftar brassting, the Bill Harald Quaritch ground every inch of it. The old de la Molles, displays the success of an attempt to make the fave, for the mouth was too large, and the thought to himself it he had never seen share my ancestors, and the Buigsaya before them, Chinese and English type correspond in the size was not as straight as it might have been, but parfect specimen of the typical English country
were great folk in their day, and they kept of body, thereby affecting a vast economy f Y there was a power about the broad brew, and a gentleman-as the English country gentlemen their tombs in the church yonder on Seuday, attained, and dispensing with those at bargiza LARGE
Cp their position well will take you to space, achieving salearness not previously foron and solid mobility stamped up the features used to be: which bowl impressed him stazugely. Just as she arrived opposite to where he was standing, agus name is de la Molle, My man George, who
How do you do, sir, how do you do my always boped to be buried beside them, but I and vacast spaces which have heretofore charan-
can't manage it now, because of the Act How torized Chinese publication. of wind, for there was a stiff breeze, bad blown knows everybody's business except his owa, uliver, I mean to get as near to them as I can. I To ilustexto the vast scopa of the work the the lady's bat edf, taking it right over the hedge, me that you had arrived bore, so I thought that have a fancy for the companionship of these old following facts are submitted for consideration and he, as in duty bound, bad serumbled into the I would walk round and do myself the honour of sent in their lifetime. Look how aquarely Chinese characters, and Medhurst'e English feld sad fetched it for her, and she had thanked making your acquaintance."
Barona, though I expect that they were a tough-Chalmers Vocabulary contains about 16.000 him with a quick smile and lighting up of the
That is very kind of you," said the Coloue), these towers stand out against the sky. Thay and Chinese Dictionary about 100,000, whilst brown eyes, and then passed on with a bow.
Not at all. If you only know how an always remind me of the men who built them this work contains more than 50,000 Englk) Yes, with a little bow she had passed on, and aerationly dull it is down here you would not sturdy, overbearing fellows, setting their shoal-words and apwards of 600,000 Chinese charac he bad watched her departing down the long say that. The plans isn't what it used to be dere against the son of circumstance and caring ters. Again, despite all the grammars and
eral, tit, till the melted in heretter set when I was a boy. There are plenty of rich neither for man asr dovil till the priests gut hold other elementary works as yet pablished, the WAAR and TOIM-T8A-TEUX et the following light, and was gone. When he returned to the cottage be had loserided her to his old sunt, and bout, but they are unt the same stamp the pad to make Lurela, od rest them, student of this diffoult language absolutely re hours This Tana Table will take offest from aaked who she might be to learn that her name rays than one, and the old Squire gave some fants. Queer place to choose for sosatie, though, cations and equivalents of different words which
of people. It isn't what it used to be in more they helped to make England, whatever their quires examples to display the various appl the Lat June, 1898.
L08768 Leaves was Ida de la Molle, which sounded like a name thing like a sigh, and thoughtfully ramored his wasn't it, right out in an open plain out of a novel, the only daughter of the old cquire white bat, out of which a dinner dapkin and two
"I suppose that they trusted Le their most and this work contains more than five timed as who lived at Honbam Cautio. And then post pocket hontkernhlafs fell to the ground, in a wails, and the hegger at the bottom of the dry day be had left for India and saw, Miss de la fashion that reminded Colonel Quaritia of the ditch," said the Colonel. You see there is no Mölle na morA
And now he wandered what had become of her. climax of a conjuring trick.
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"Ah, yes, of course they would. It is easy to caramunicate effectively with natives who And after all what could it matter to him. He
Oh yes, thank you," answered his vizitor, "I to see that you are a soldier. They were no understand nothing but Chinese. In this respost
bole, thoas old crusaders. My word, we must
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was not a marrying man, and women us als Bud the sun a little hot at this time of the year. be getting on. They are hauling down the European residing in China, and to the natives had little attraction for him; indeed he dislikin! There is nothing like a few handkerchiefs or
the work will be found indispensable to all them. It has been said that he had novor maritɔwal to koup it off," and he rolled the mass of Union Jack on the west tower. I always have themselves it explains anbjoots fully with which Friday, on socount of coaling ried, and neror oven had a love affair since ko unpery into a ball, and oramming it book into it laaled down at sunset," and he began walking very for indeed of them are perfectly acquainted.to, except ander unavoidable airouzostances. In Wordsworth (8.)....Hamburg.....
The above Time Table will be strictly adhored Wakefield. was avo-and-twenty, and this was true enough the crown, replaced the hat on his bead in sach briskly again. But though he was not married, he ones, before a fashion that about eight inches of white napkin
To parties realdent in England and interested he was five-and-twenty, had very nearly taken hang down behind. You isust have felt it, in narrow by-road, and were pussing up the ancient comprises upwards of two thousand large MONEY!
In another three minutes they had crossed in China it gannut trut be invaluable dessin case of stream of weather, duz patice will be Glem (5) London
given of any stoppages that step. It was twenty years ago now, sud u Egypt, Lo went on the sun I mean. It's a drive that led to the cattle gates. It was not
MONEY! MONEY body quite know the history, for in twenty years
and much of a drive, but there were still some hail many things are fortamately forgotter. But
*2aid to have bion v named after the Bokmer dozen of old poliard onks that had no doubt
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