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"And what is your claim, then, to go there?" Macleod asked. "Oh," said the young lieutenant, laughing at the home-thrust, "I am only admitted on sufferance, as a friend of Colonel Ross. She never asked me to put my name in her autograph-book.
In the recess, as it was called, or interval of suspended studies in the middle of the forenoon, this girl carried her autograph-book, for she had one of those indispensable appendages of the boarding-school miss of every degree, and asked Elsie to write her name in it.
But these, no doubt, were foolish stories, conceived andpropagated in chimney-corners, while yet there were chimney-corners and firesides, and smoky flues. There wasno truth in such things, I am sure; the Black Man had changedhis tactics, and knew better than to lure the human soul thus to come to him with his musty autograph-book.
In the recess, as it was called, or interval of suspended studies in the middle of the forenoon, this girl carried her autograph-book, for she had one of those indispensable appendages of the boarding-school miss of every degree, and asked Elsie to write her name in it.
He appears somewhat downcast, or rather, I should say, has a melancholy cast of countenance: he is advanced in years, with a profusion of hair around his face, chin and throat is apparently between sixty and seventy years of age. I requested him to enroll his name in my autograph-book, which he did with readiness. He remarked that he was often requested to do so, especially by the ladies.
"Do not dull people bore you?" said one of the lady-boarders, the same that sent me her autograph-book last week with a request for a few original stanzas, not remembering that "The Pactolian" pays me five dollars a line for every thing I write in its columns. There never was but one man whom I would trust with my latch-key." "Who might that favored person be?" "Zimmermann."
"Do not dull people bore you?" said one of the lady-boarders, the same that sent me her autograph-book last week with a request for a few original stanzas, not remembering that "The Pactolian" pays me five dollars a line for every thing I write in its columns. There never was but one man that I would trust with my latch-key." "Who might that favored person be?" "Zimmermann."
In the recess, as it was called, or interval of suspended studies in the middle of the forenoon, this girl carried her autograph-book, for she had one of those indispensable appendages of the boarding-school miss of every degree, and asked Elsie to write her name in it.
"Do not dull people bore you?" said one of the lady-boarders, the same that sent me her autograph-book last week with a request for a few original stanzas, not remembering that "The Pactolian" pays me five dollars a line for every thing I write in its columns. There never was but one man whom I would trust with my latch-key." "Who might that favored person be?" "Zimmermann."
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