to read us really required for a proper intelligence a few words of prologue .
So she promisedpromiseto take her to the wakes after dinner .
True to his promisepromise, he was there with a blank bank-check in his pocket , awaitingawaitwith impatience to enter the list as a bidder for the beautiful slave .
He soon found means to ingratiateingratiatehimself with her companion , who was a French teacher at the school , and , at partingpart, slippedslipa letter he had purposely writtenwrite, into Charlotte ’s hand , and five guineas into that of Mademoiselle , who promisedpromiseshe would endeavour to bring her young charge into the field again the next evening .
Ere young Linwood left the quadroon that evening , he promisedpromiseher that he would become her purchaser , and make her free and her own mistress .
He had takentakeme aside one day and promisedpromiseme a silver fourpenny on the first of every month if I would only keep my " weather-eye open for a seafaring man with one leg " and let him know the moment he appeared .
He promisedpromiseto conduct her to England-he did.-O , Madam , you know the rest !
My promisepromise, then , was given ; but six months are six months , and seem an eternity , and , inasmuch as they stretched between me and my prospective industry ( I suppose attaches are industrious ; but I know not , for I never became attache to Sir Jacob or anybody else ) , I castcastabout for some desirable mode of spending them .
She promisedpromiseus south rooms with a view close together , instead of which here are north rooms , looking into a courtyard , and a long way apart .
My daughter and my grandchild join with me in desiring to be most kindly remembered to the amiable girl ; and they bidbidme remindremindyou , that the annual visit to Howard Grove , which we were formerly promisedpromise, has been discontinueddiscontinuefor more than four years .
The rooms the Signora promisedpromiseus in her letter would have looked over the Arno .
When I leftleaveMr. Bates , I wentgodown to my father : where , by the assistance of him and my uncle John , and some other relations , I gotgetforty pounds , and a promisepromiseof thirty pounds a year to maintain me at Leyden : there I studied physic two years and seven months , knowing it would be useful in long voyages .
When she was first introducedintroduceinto the polite circle , she danceddancewith an officer , whom she faintly wished to be united to ; but her father soon after recommendingrecommendanother in a more distinguished rank of life , she readily submittedsubmitto his will , and promisedpromiseto love , honour , and obey , ( a vicious fool , ) as in duty bound .