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"Now, come along; and I warn you once for all, that if you break faith and attempt to call out, you die, as sure as your name's Barclay Drinkwater!"
But there came a gray dawn of a May morning when John Barclay clutched his bedfellow and whispered, "Bob, Bob look, look." When the awakened one saw nothing, John tried to scream, but could only gasp, "Don't you see Ellen there there by the table?"
Two of these college boys, Tedford Barclay and George Chapin, told me that a recent provision had been announced, to the effect that a commission would be granted to any private who should perform some act of conspicuous gallantry in battle, and they had each resolved to earn the offered reward, and to be privates no longer.
Mary Barclay; the Lycurgus Masons were next in the file, and in their evening clothes they looked withered and old, and Lycurgus was not sure upon his feet; Jacob Dolan in his faded blue uniform marched in like a drum-major with the eldest Miss Ward; and the Carnines followed, and the Fernalds followed them; and then came Judge and Mrs.
Thrale of Boswell's "Life of Johnson." Mr. Thrale was a brewer, the founder of the great firm now known as Barclay and Perkins. She was many years younger than he; and, after his death, she married Signor Piozzi, a professional musician of eminence.
I asked the cashier to make some guarded inquiries concerning the Bay Shore Company, to find out, if possible, who was behind it and also to inquire concerning Barclay and Keene, the real estate brokers of Milk Street. The reply to my letter reached me on Friday. It was satisfactory, eminently so. And when, on Saturday afternoon, Mr.
Let us lift up one more rag one more painted rag in the scenery of his life and see him a reformer of national fame; see him with an unflinching hand pull the wires that control a great national policy of his party, and watch in that scene wherein he names a president even against the power and the money and the organization of rich men, brutally rich men like John Barclay.
Why, she looks healthier than you, mother, and will probably live longer." Mrs. Hill looked grave. She did not fancy this speech. "I don't think we shall have to wait so long," she said. "When you are twenty-one Cousin Hamilton will probably do something for you." "That's almost five years," grumbled Conrad. "At any rate we have got Ben Barclay out of the house, that's one comfort."
So he said: "Friend Barclay, I should need time to consider that question. Are you in a hurry?" "I should like to get the money out of my possession. I might lose it or have it stolen. Besides, I don't want my wife to discover that I have it." "It might make her extravagant, perhaps," suggested the squire.
"I wish you could, indeed," Captain Tempe replied, warmly; "but with your leg you never could keep up, on foot; and a horse would be out of the question, among the forests of the Vosges mountains. "You might, however if you will be of great use in assisting me to drill and discipline my recruits, before starting." "That I will do, with pleasure," Captain Barclay said.
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