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She did not take that quite as he expected. "So Mary Abbott did tell them!" she cried. He hurried on: "The poisonous idea of a vulgar Socialist woman this is the thing upon which you base your suspicions of your husband!" "Oh!" she whispered, half to herself. "Mary Abbott did say it!" "What if she did?"
And somehow the heavy odor of the pines and the chill silence was depressing. It was his fate to see Mr. Abbott come first. Unaware of the Irishman who drew back at his approach, his hot heart sick with disappointment, he opened the door of the cabin and went in, the inevitable book under his arm.
We all took it in turns to look after her, and try to see that she did not meet any one she shouldn't. Yet, for all our precautions, Austen Abbott got hold of her and turned her silly little head. He was a man of experience, and she was only a child. She wouldn't listen to us she wouldn't hear a word against him. I took what seemed to me to be the only chance.
Abbott sat forward and drew herself up. She felt as if she were talking to a stranger, as, indeed, she was. "This house and its traditions are sacred " "I know it. Yon were telling me how mother came to marry a bad fast man." "He was not fast when she met him. It was at a ball in Washington.
J. J. C. Abbott, a sound and eminent practitioner, and a future prime minister of Canada, taught commercial law. Laflamme had charge of civil law. Young Laurier made the most of the opportunities offered.
Miss Abbott allowed him to get up, though she still held him firmly. He gave a loud and curious cry a cry of interrogation it might be called. Below there was the noise of Perfetta returning with the baby's milk. "Go to him," said Miss Abbott, indicating Philip. "Pick him up. Treat him kindly." She released him, and he approached Philip slowly. His eyes were filling with trouble.
In a few minutes Alma regained consciousness, and declared herself quite well again; but when she tried to rise, strength failed her; she began to moan in physical distress. Harvey went downstairs, whilst Mrs. Abbott and Ruth tended the sufferer.
Then she blinked admiringly upon the white pile of envelopes lying in the glow of the drop-light. "There! That makes fifteen valentines all for her. She will be sure to receive more than any other senior, and that will teach Berta Abbott a thing or two. The idea of her insisting that her senior is more popular than my senior!"
Cooper's "Naval History of the United States" abounds in picturesque and thrilling descriptions of naval warfare, and is one of the most characteristic histories, both in regard to style and subject, yet produced in America. Two other able writers in this department are John S.C. and Jacob Abbott.
Major Abbott stands up here and says that he doesn't know their names, that if Harold Carman hadn't gone away, he'd know their names, and he gets before the jury, as if he were testifying, the fact that Harold Carman is away and what he would say if he were here. He slips that in; and it's improper and he knows it. He may be a good lawyer, and he is, but he isn't a witness in this case.
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