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The Frenchman took a step backward at the menace in the lad's tone; but the other French officers now gathered about, and these reënforcements apparently lent him courage. "So!" he exclaimed. "It is that we are not good enough to drink with you, eh?" "No," replied Chester; "we simply don't drink. That is all.
With that the interview closed, and the two parted, the captain to be confronted a few minutes later by Chester Dinsmore, with a like request to that just denied to Percy. "No, no, Chester," he said, "it is not to be thought of; Lucilla is entirely too young to leave her father's fostering care and take up the duties and trials of married life.
Jacob Lindley, of Chester county, was another frequent visitor at Friend Hopper's house; and many were the lively conversations they had together. He was a preacher in the Society of Friends, and missed no opportunity, either in public or private, to protest earnestly against the sin of slavery.
Before he could make an outcry Chester and Hal both leaped forward. The former's hands grasped the German by the throat, stifling the sound of his voice, and Hal quickly delivered two hard blows to the man's face. The German fell limply into Chester's arms, and the boy laid him quietly on the ground. Then they moved forward again. The sounds of the scuffle had aroused no one.
"Who the devil have you got there, Pelham?" said Lord Chester. "A person," said I, "who picked me up at Paris, and insists on the right of treasure trove to claim me in England. But will you let me ask, in my turn, whom that cheerful mansion we have just left, belongs to?" "To a Mr.
"But there is one thing I would know. How does it come that you are familiar with the password of the Wilhelmstrasse?" "I can't see where it would do any good to tell you, general," replied Chester. "But I demand to know." "You'll never learn from me," declared the lad. Colonel Anderson smiled. "That goes for me, too," he said quietly.
I had set before me at the hotel a very handsome floral harp, which my friend's friend had offered me as a tribute. It made melody in my ears as sweet as those hyacinths of Shelley's, the music of whose bells was so "delicate, soft, and intense, It was felt like an odor within the sense." At Chester we had the blissful security of being unknown, and were left to ourselves.
"Come," said Smith, at length addressing his companion, "let us go now, we can soon find a place where gentlemen can settle their disputes without being hunted down by the police!" and the two went out. Jones hastily came round the counter and addressed Chester. "They will get up a street fight," he said, with great apparent anxiety. "Had you not better follow them?"
"Are you ready?" asked Hal. "All ready," came the reply from the other three. "All right, then. Now!" At the word the four rushed desperately into the throng, which was pressing in on them from three sides. Taken by surprise, the enemy gave way for a moment; then closed in again. Blows fell thick and fast for the space of a couple of minutes. Then, suddenly, Chester fell to the ground.
But in the days when Letty Morris looked out of the coach window, and young Alfred murmured that the prospect was fair indeed, conversation was perfectly correct. And it was still decorous even when it got beyond the coach period and reached a point where Old Chester began to take notice. At first it was young Old Chester which giggled.
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