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This was to be the tent of their son and daughter-in-law. In a few weeks the son returned, bringing with him a beautiful Buffalo girl. The parents of the boy gave a big feast in honor of the occasion, and the son and his wife lived very happily together. In the course of time a son came to the young couple, and the father was very proud of his boy.
For nearly twenty minutes a wild, surging sea of clashing steel bayonets, swords, lances and Circassian daggers wielded by fiery mountaineers and steady, cool, well-disciplined Teutons, roared and flowed around the big guns, which towered over the lashing waves like islands in a stormy ocean.
The preacher's purchase had to be left at the farm until he could return for it in the big farm wagon, but Phœbe thought of the highboy as they rode along the pleasant country roads. She remembered the expression she had caught on the face of Phares and the remembrance troubled her.
The moment was full of difficulty and danger, and big with events of immeasurable importance. The country was on the very brink of a civil war, of which no man could foretell the duration or the result.
But she was clever, and had picked up an education and good manners amidst the difficulties of her childhood, and had been beautiful to look at. To marry and have the command of money, to do her duty correctly, to live in a big house and be respected, had been her ambition, and during the first fifteen years of her married life she was successful amidst great difficulties.
What of that small half-sunk lodging in Big Lochend Close, where Mary's mother lived, and where Mary had been brought up, where perhaps Mary had died?
Indeed, he was drugged with happiness, and sat like a big half-embarrassed, half-dreaming youth, twirling his hat in his hands, pulling off and putting on his gloves, and tracing patterns with his stick on the carpet until she reappeared, and then he was strangely lacking in self-confidence and readiness.
"It is a big distinction, and that is all I know about it," replied the speaker with a laugh; for he was not student enough to look up what he did not comprehend. "Knight Commander of the Star of India," added Louis, who had looked up the abbreviation. "Thank you, Mr. Belgrave. From 25,000 to 30,000 men were employed upon the work.
Roger Hapgood, sartorially immaculate in shining raiment, glorious as to tie and silken socks, presented himself. Miss Jocelyn Truxton, a big, yellow-hearted rose peeping forth at him from a carefully careless profusion of brown hair, came out upon the porch at his knock, smiled at him saucily, and offered him her hand. "How do you do, Mr. Hapgood? We didn't expect you again so soon.
And you tell me that all those great big bright stars around your comet are so far away that if you look at them just with your own eyes you don't even see them and there they look almost as if you could put out your hand and touch them. It's just a little bit awful, too!" she added, with a little shiver.
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