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And Josiah added to his remarks, as he went down the steps, "You'd better get home, Samantha, in time to cook a hen, and make some puddin', and so forth." And I sez, with quite a lot of dignity, "Have I ever failed, Josiah Allen, to have good dinners for you, and on time too?"
He was suffering no special pain at the moment, and was eagerly watching the door through which Drew would come. The latter's heart ached as he saw how wan and gray the old man's face looked. But his indomitable spirit still shone in his sunken eyes, and he tried to summon a cheery smile as Drew came near the bed. "Well, Allen, my boy," he remarked, "I guess I crowed too soon this afternoon.
The Campaign of 1888; Benjamin Harrison, Twenty-third President.% In the party platforms of 1888 we find, therefore, that three issues are prominent: taxation, tariff reform, the surplus. The Democrats nominated Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman, and demanded frugality in public expenses, no more revenue than was needed to pay the necessary cost of government, and a tariff for revenue only.
He wanted to tell the Scot what he thought of this business, but he dared not. He knew Ethan Allen and the other leaders of the Green Mountain Boys should know of it, and as he, perhaps, was the first to learn of the return of the Scotch, he must get away early in the morning and reach Bennington in the quickest possible time.
An' what's more," his voice lowered and the girls leaned forward eagerly, "if Peter wants that there property of yourn there's gold on it, you can bet your last dollar onto it. Pete ain't no angel, an' he don't work for nothing." Burning with excitement themselves, the girls marveled that Allen could take this statement so calmly. "Thanks for the tip," he said, in his ordinary voice.
There have been some deaths from yellow fever in Savannah already this season, and who knows but" and turning to the captain, who at this moment came on deck, carelessly handling his toothpick, he exclaimed, "Captain Allen, Mr. Conners has got the yellow fever!" The captain started back, aghast, at this terrible announcement. His face was as white as a sheet. "The yellow fever, Mr. Bowen!
Allen; perchance the secret lay in his bold manner and in the appearance of dignity and piety he wore as a cloak when on his guard. I caught my breath sharply and took my way toward them, resolved to make as brave a front as I might. It was my uncle, whose ear was ever open, that first heard my footstep and turned upon me. "Here is Richard, now, father," he said.
Allen's astuteness had nothing mean or cringing in it, while Mr. Fox heretofore had been a sort of Uriah Heep to him. Therefore his surprise and annoyance at his new role of cool confidence. "Well, sir," said he, rather impatiently, returning to his writing, as a broad hint that communications must be brief if made at all. "Mr. Allen," said Mr.
Whoever wishes to see a perfect delineation of this Literary Jack of all Trades, may find it in an ingenious tract, entitled, 'A SMALL WHOLE-LENGTH OF DR. PRIESTLEY, printed for Rivingtons, in St. Paul's Church-Yard. Burke said, 'I have learnt to think better of mankind. Ante, iii.236. Desmoulins, Mrs. Davis that was about Mrs. Williams, and Mr. Allen, and Mrs.
There's one important thing we forgot that Will was a secret service man!" "Oh!" cried Betty, her eyes gleaming in the firelight, "now, I know I guessed right!" "What did you guess?" asked Allen, remembering to marvel, even in that moment of excitement, how very becoming firelight was to Betty! "Out with it."
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