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Carroll laughed, as if this greatly pleased him, but Vane's face was rather grave as he answered her. "No; I'm thankful to say that I haven't. In fact, I've never seen a shot fired, except at a grouse or a deer." "Then the West must be getting what the Archdeacon he's Flora's husband, you know calls decadent," the girl sighed. "She's incorrigible," Mrs. Chisholm interposed with a smile.
The Kid then swore vengeance, and said he would take his revenge out of Chisholm's men, and he at once began killing all the employ of John Chisholm. He would ride up to a bunch of cowboys and enquire if they worked for Chisholm.
"Guess I was right," he murmured, "when I said it was on the books fo' Hahdy to die by the rope!" Cattle were approaching Midway on the Chisholm Trail hundreds of them, bawling, milling, and pounding dust clouds into the air with their sharp hoofs. The Texan, watching the dark-red mass of them, smiled. McCay cattle, those! And there was a woman in Dodge City who was cared for now Tip's mother.
"Popular enough with girls who see him in society but you ask stenographers how they like him," flushed Miss Chisholm. "I am hardly likely to converse with stenographers on the subject of Mr. Hunt," was the insolent answer. Josie determined to cultivate Miss Chisholm and to give Mrs. Claiborne a wide berth. "Where has the poor lady been put?" Josie asked Miss Oleander,
"I must acknowledge that Miss Edgeworth did not take what I said to comfort her very kindly, and she 'gave me fits, as the saying is; but bless your soul, she'll soon get over it, and will do better next time." Soon after the death of Philip, Major Chisholm and his family left Nyalong, and I was appointed Clerk to the Justices at Colac.
In the meanwhile we canna hurry them. Ye will have to give them time." Vane rose. "We'll leave it at that. I've promised to take Mrs. Nairn and Miss Chisholm for a sail." By the time he reached the water-front he had got rid of the slight uneasiness the interview had occasioned him. He found Mrs.
The fine lady shares her shrinking with those inveterate enemies of democracy, the lackey who shuts the door in the shabby stranger's face, and the dog who barks a beggar from the gate. And so while the maid drew her own skirts aside and held her nose high in the air, the gentlewoman stood faintly smiling at the queer scene. Alas! no Mrs. Chisholm.
In that way the lonely hermit put his foot down and began a countermine, working as silently as possible. During the Christmas holidays, after his neighbour Frank had been jilted by Cecily, he rode away, and returned after a week's absence. The Major informed him that Mrs. Chisholm had met with an accident and would be unable to visit Nyalong for some time.
Murray and Sergeant Chisholm had got there before us, and with them was a doctor the same that had been fetched to Phillips and they were all talking together quietly when we went in. The superintendent came up to Mr. Lindsey.
But these early labors are by no means insignificant, especially since they pointed the way to some of Marshall's most striking decisions. In Chisholm vs.
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