 | L. E. Ruutz Rees - India - 1858 - 412 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding that if I succeeded in reaching the Commander-in-Chief,...to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. When I left home about seven o'clock in the evening, she thought I was going on duty for the night to the... | |
 | L. E. Ruutz Rees - India - 1858 - 412 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding that if I succeeded in reaching the Commander-in-Chief,...to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. When I left home about seven o'clock in the evening, she thought I was going on duty for the night to the... | |
 | Charles Ball - India - 1858 - 750 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding, that if I succeeded in reaching the commander-inchief,...to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. When I left home, about seven o'clock in the evening, she thought I was going on duty for the night to the... | |
 | L. E. Ruutz Rees - India - 1858 - 430 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding that if I succeeded in reaching the Commander-in-Chief,...him. " I secretly arranged for a disguise, so that my deparNOV.] MR. KAVANAGH'S NARRATIVE. 307 ture might not be known to my wife, as she was not well enough... | |
 | India - 1858 - 486 pages
...and treated the dangers to lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding that UI succeeded in reaching the Commander-in-Chief my knowledge would be a great help to him. " It was along no ordinary road we went, but over ditches and hedges, partially filled or levelled... | |
 | Sambhu Chandra Mookerjee - India - 1859 - 220 pages
...encourage me to undertake the journey, declaring that he thought it so dangerous that he would not himself have asked any officer to attempt it. I however spoke...to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. When I left home about 7 o'clock in the evening, she thought I was gone on duty for the night to the mines,... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 664 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding, that if I succeeded in reaching the commander-in-chief,...to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. When I left home, about seven o'clock in the evening, she thought I was gone on duty for the night to the... | |
 | George Dodd - China - 1859 - 668 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding, that if I succeeded in reaching the commander-in-chief,...enough to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. \Vhen I left home, about seven o'clock in the evening, she thought I was gone on duty for the night... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - 1878 - 488 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the danger so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding that, if I succeeded in reaching the Commander-in-Chief,...to bear the prospect of an eternal separation. When I left home about seven o'clock in the evening she thought I was going on duty for the night to the... | |
 | Edwin Hodder - Heroes - 1883 - 722 pages
...confidently of success, and treated the danger so lightly, that he at last yielded, and did me the honour of adding that, if I succeeded in 'reaching the Commander-in-Chief, my knowledge would be a great help to bun. "I secretly arranged for a disguise, so that my departure might not be known to my wife, as she... | |
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Sir James did not encourage me to undertake the journey, declaring that he thought it so dangerous that he would not himself have asked any officer to attempt it. I, however, spoke so confidently of success, and treated the dangers so lightly, that he... 
