Nanty

"Nanty" in the far-off nursery days, and so she was called still by intimates of the family whose various branches she had trained to read and spell.

The Privet Hedge J. E. Buckrose 1899

‘Hear reason,’ he said; and added, as Nanty still endeavoured to pass him,

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In many places, however, it was impossible for three men to ride abreast; and therefore the burden of supporting Alan Fairford fell alternately to old Jephson and to Nanty; and it was with much difficulty that they could keep him upright in his saddle.

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‘No, I have not forgotten you,’ answered the acquaintance of Sam Skelton; ‘but my orders are peremptory to let no one up the avenue this night, and therefore’ — ‘But we are armed, and will not be kept back,’ said Nanty.

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Committing the charge of Fairford to Jephson, Nanty dashed up to the head of the troop, and gave his orders. — ‘Who knows the house best?’

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‘And do you not remember that you had a poor old lady for your tenant, Mrs. Cantrips of Kittlebasket?’ said Nanty, suppressing his emotion with difficulty.

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The string of loaded horses then struck forward at their former pace, while Nanty, with Sam Skelton, waited by the roadside till the rear came up, when Jephson and Fairford joined them, and, to the great relief of the latter, they began to proceed at an easier pace than formerly, suffering the gang to precede them, till the clatter and clang attending their progress began to die away in the distance.

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D — n all warrants, false or true — curse the justice — confound the constable! — and here stands little Nanty

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Nanty himself sat down by Fairford, helped him to his tea, with such other refreshments as he could think of, and seemed in his way sincerely desirous to make his situation as comfortable as things admitted.

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‘Oh ho! then the Jacobite gentry are not so safe as they think themselves?’ said Nanty.

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