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"Don't tell me I 'say. I had a necklace worth more money than I dared tell that imp. She wouldn't have believed me. And my niece Esther is as fond of baubles as I am. She stole the thing. And she said she lost it. And it's my opinion and it's the imp's opinion she's got it somewhere now." Alston tapped noiselessly, and regarded her from under brows judicially stern.
W. Alston, of Sulphur Springs, Va., who was present, as stated by Carey, also proposed to the authorities at Richmond to undertake to rid the country of the Confederacy's most deadly enemies, and authorized the committee to say that he, here and now, renewed his proposition; all of which Carey submitted to the assembly for their consideration.
There was regret in his tone, not so much for the untimely demise of the lady as for the fact that George Alston had not found his mate in California. "What are they like?" said Sadie "pretty?" Mark had his back toward her. She could see the shape of it, pale in its light-colored shirt, against the dark filigree of shrubs at the bottom of the steps.
He lifted it, turning the fingers inward. "Why?" Charmian said. He looked up at her. "Oh, I they are all strangers here." She said nothing, and just then the telephone bell sounded. Mr. Alston Lake was below asking if Mr. Heath was in.
A hunter who has been over there told me so yesterday. It appears reasonably certain that the warriors are gathering under the Prophet at Tippecanoe." "Yes, it is undoubtedly true that the Indians are rising," replied Philip Alston, still looking at Ruth. "Well, it was bound to come, this last decisive struggle between the white and the red race, and the sooner the better, perhaps.
"Ef yer deny it, Lizay, yer'll make it wusser." Then Alston went up close to her, so that Edny Ann might not hear, and said something in a low tone. Lizay gave him a swift look of surprise: then her lip began to quiver; the quick tears came to her eyes; she put both hands to her face and cried hard, so that she could not have found voice if she had wished to tell Alston her story.
Weedon Moore made little clipped bits of speeches, sliced off whenever her car appeared and his audience turned to her in a perfect obedience and glowing interest. Jeff, speaking for Alston, now got a lukewarm attention, the courtesy born out of affectionate regard. None of the roars and wild handclappings were for him. Madame Beattie was eating up all the enthusiasm in town.
Anne didn't know its eccentricity was the result of breakage, but she saw it was quite unlike other noses and found it superior to them. Alston Choate spent every waking minute of his life in the practice of law and the reading of novels; he was either digging into precedent, expounding it, raging over its futilities, or guiltily losing himself in the life of books.
Or he arrived to-day, I expect, though this was posted in France. What day does the Philadelphia " "This morning," said Alston. "Then he's here." Charmian looked disgusted. "It's bad taste on his part. After his horrible efforts to ruin the opera he ought to have kept away." "What does it matter?" said Claude. "He'll be interviewed on the libretto," said Alston.
Marjorie chose not to discuss Hamilton from the freshman's point of view. "Alston Terrace. Is it an interesting house to live in? Where do you live? Are the garage accommodations good? I shall have my own car here; perhaps two. How far is it from the station to the campus?" The stranger hurled these questions at Marjorie all in a breath.
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