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As I reached for the generous big piece I thought of Laddie poor Laddie, plowing away at his Crusader fight, and not a hint of victory. No one in the family liked rhubarb pie better than he did. I knew there was no use to ask for a plate. "Wait oh wait!" I cried. I ran to the woodshed, pulled a shining new shingle from a bale stacked there, and held it for Candace.
The fund had been started with an anonymous gift of one hundred thousand dollars, and the committee, with Candace C. Stimson as chairman, planned to secure the one million dollars in two years.
Badly armed and badly trained, they were led on by the generals of Candace, Queen of Napata, to the fourth cataract. They were, however, easily driven back when Gallus led against them an army of ten thousand men, and drove them to Ethiopian Pselchis, now remaining as the modern village of Dakkeh. There he defeated them again, and took the city by storm.
"Laus, Mass'r, why, Cato he'll do jes' as I do, dere a'n't no kind o' need o' askin' him. 'Course he will." A smile passed round the circle, because between Candace and her husband there existed one of those whimsical contrasts which one sometimes sees in married life.
Mrs. Gray had beautiful, big, short-sighted blue eyes with black lashes; when she smiled they seemed to brim with a sudden fascinating radiance. She smiled now, and reminded Candace somehow of a great, soft, fully opened garden rose. "You have something of your mother's looks, Cannie," she said. "I knew her best when she was about your age.
"I shall not wonder if he responds most favorably to an ultimatum." Ravone and Candace exchanged glances of amusement, the latter breaking into a deplorable little gurgle of laughter. "I beg to inform you that the duke's daughter has disdained the offer from the crown," said Ravone. "She has married Lieutenant Alsanol, of the royal artillery, and is as happy as a butterfly.
It was probably this latter Candace who warred against Rome at the time of Augustus and received unusual consideration from her formidable foe. The prestige of Ethiopia at this time was considerable throughout the world.
"I never read advertisements if I can help it, except of new patents in razors. They're a fad of mine." "Thank goodness you've got fads. Then we've something in common. I make money out of my fads. I call 'em inspirations. I thought the Candace business was one of my inspirations, and that I'd have some fun out of it.
Bill and the rest may be gone for hours, and there's bones broke here, that's sure." "Where's a doctor?" asked Bobby eagerly. "Eleven miles away, my dear, if he's an inch. Dr. Pevy is the only man for a broken bone in these woods. Poor Hunchie!" "Can't we get him into his bed?" asked Betty. "He'll freeze here." "You're right," replied the woman, who afterward told them she was Mrs. Candace.
Candace ventured to ask Gertrude in a whisper, "What are those?" "Oh, only some old wrecks," replied Gertrude, carelessly; and she turned from Candace to talk to Tom Joy, who sat next to her. The "Cornelia" was now running on the favoring wind between Fort Adams and the Conanicut shore.
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