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"That Ames kid" had gotten the best of him. This was four years ago, and wonderful changes had taken place since then. Rupert had begun work on his reservoir the spring after they had taken possession. He had a most beautiful site for one; and when the melting winter snows and spring rains filled Dry Hollow creek, most of it was turned into the Basin.
"Oh, no," objected Marsh. "I couldn't sleep with all this excitement going on. And then Mr. Ames is a friend of mine. He would want me to look after things for him." Murphy looked Marsh over in evident speculation. The man was tall and broad shouldered. His face was clean shaven. The features were strong, with a regularity that many people would consider handsome.
RICHARD AMES of Somersetshire, England. I. William, who came to America and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. In 1672 he settled in Bridgewater with his uncle, and became his heir in 1697. James Keith. Dr. William Ames, the Franeker Professor, had a daughter , Ruth, who came to America in 1637, and married Edmund Angier of Cambridge, whose son , Rev.
"I guess you find New York quite a thing to see, don't you?" said Carrie, venturing something to avoid a possible deadly silence. "It is rather large to get around in a week," answered Ames, pleasantly. He was an exceedingly genial soul, this young man, and wholly free of affectation. It seemed to Carrie he was as yet only overcoming the last traces of the bashfulness of youth.
I ALWAYS said I wished I could prescribe her and buy her as I would a box of pills; and Charlie Ames says they always made it a point at the Sanatorium to give their patients a dose of Pollyanna as soon as possible after their arrival, during the whole year she was there." "'Dose, indeed!" scorned Mrs. Chilton. "Then you don't think you'll let her go?" "Go? Why, of course not!
The Tryst of the White Lady "I wisht ye'd git married, Roger," said Catherine Ames. "I'm gitting too old to work seventy last April and who's going to look after ye when I'm gone. Git married, b'y git married." Roger Temple winced. His aunt's harsh, disagreeable voice always jarred horribly on his sensitive nerves.
At Sherman Station, the highest point on the Union Pacific Railroad, stands a monument some sixty feet square and about the same height, bearing the simple legend, "In Memory of Oakes Ames and Oliver Ames."
Some of the freshmen meekly accepted the penalty rather than divulge their secret affections, one declared that she hadn't a crush, one, remembering the legend of Georgia Ames, made up a sophomore's name and after she had been safely "passed" exulted over the simplicity of her victims.
Hooker, who read some delightfully humorous verses from her husband, John Hooker, dedicated to Miss Anthony. There were more poetical tributes, recitations by Sarah Fisher Ames and other well-known elocutionists, and then a call for the recipient of all these honors.
She was pummeling George unmercifully and he retaliated with interest, forgetting in the excitement and confusion that his antagonist was a girl. But while snakes might temporarily cow Miss Ames, a fight in her room was a situation she knew how to deal with. "George! Sarah!" she descended upon the combatants and pulled them apart with no gentle hand. "I'm ashamed of you!
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