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The door of Mrs. Boyd's room stood partly open. Louie Howe gave a light tap and marched in with an air that was rather insolent. "Oh, Mrs. Boyd, I've given my walking dress such an awful tear! Mrs. Barrington said she was quite sure you could mend it. You see I'm going to a sort of musicale in about an hour and I couldn't take it to the tailors.
These facts being suggested by Lieutenant Colonel Carrington, quartermaster general for the southern department, the proposition was instantly adopted, and an officer despatched to bring the boats from above down to Boyd's ferry. The next day both armies resumed their line of march.
"I'm goin' to ride with General Morgan, like Shelly did," Boyd repeated doggedly, with that stubbornness which seasons ago had kept him eternally tagging his impatient elders. "That's up to you." Suddenly Drew was tired, tired of trying to find words to pierce to Boyd's thinking brain if one had a thinking brain at his age. Slinging his carbine, Drew mounted Shawnee.
Boyd's face clouded angrily, at which Cherry exclaimed: "Now, for Heaven's sake, don't mimic Big George, or we'll never learn anything!" "I won't stand for a spy!" he growled. "And be arrested?" "No," he assured her, grimly. "It may be as you suspect, but you needn't fear that I'll ever go to jail for assaulting one of Willis Marsh's helpers."
Henty is careful to mingle instruction with entertainment; and the humorous touches, especially in the sketch of John Holl, the Westminster dustman, Dickens himself could hardly have excelled." Christian Leader. Budd Boyd's Triumph; or, The Boy Firm of Fox Island. By WILLIAM P. CHIPMAN. 12mo, cloth, illustrated, price $1.00.
And, apologising for his delay in replying to a letter of Lady Boyd's, he says that he is put out of all love of writing letters because his correspondents think things about him that he himself knows are not true. 'My white side comes out on paper but at home there is much black work.
Boyd's health was so broken that if it had not been for Mrs. Barrington's kind offer I must have given up school and gone into a factory; and began to repay her for her kindly care of me." She felt the curious sort of shrinking that passed over him. "But you didn't," he said, decisively. "And if she had let you alone " "But she was sure my mother was dead.
As General Sullivan was often misinformed by his maps and his scouts, I was nothing reassured by Boyd's reply, and marched with my Indians, feeling in my heart afraid.
"No hunter crew will follow anybody but their own ships' officers." "We'll have to have somebody the uptown people will follow," Oscar said. "These people won't take orders from a woolly-pants hunter captain. How about you, Sigurd?" The banker shook his head. "Ralph Boyd's the man for that," he said. "Ralph's needed right here; this is G.H.Q.," Oscar said.
You will see how I have praised the latter. Well, now I must say 'good-bye, which you will praise me for! Dearest Mr. Boyd's affectionate E.B.B. P.S. Nota bene I wish to forewarn you that I have cut away in the text none of my vowels by apostrophes. When I say 'To efface, wanting two-syllable measure, I do not write 'T' efface' as in the old fashion, but 'To efface' full length.
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