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Clair; only don't make a row! They reached the house as Betty was in the act of turning the corner. For a moment the little figure swayed outwardly, and Captain Stuart quite expected that moment to be Betty's last; but she recovered her balance most miraculously, accomplished the turn successfully, and went steadily on till she reached the pear tree.
Sargent dwells upon the need of spies, and the service these spies would have rendered St. Clair. A few days afterwards he writes in reference to a rumor that his own office is to be dispensed with, protesting that this would be an outrage, and that he has always discharged his duties well, having entered the service simply from a desire to be of use to his country.
For the lamp hung high, having been pushed up out of reach for the day. The St. Clair ran off, and Miss Macy followed; but the two others consulted, and Lansing ran down to waylay the chambermaid and beg a broom. By the help of the broom handle my cap was at length dislodged from its perch, and restored to me. But I was angry.
As he went to his study a servant stopped him. "Monsieur, monsieur, we have only just discovered, but Mademoiselle St. Clair " "Yes, yes; what about her?" "Gone, monsieur." "Gone!" The doctor staggered back against the wall, his face working in a sudden convulsion. It was as though the servant had struck him a heavy blow between the eyes. "Yes, monsieur. Her bed has not been slept in.
The Indians were surprised by the vigor of the charge, and puzzled as to its object. They opened out on both sides and half the men had gone through before they fired more than a chance shot or two. They then fell on the rear, and began a hot pursuit. St. Clair sent his aide, Denny, to the front to try to keep order, but neither he nor anyone else could check the flight.
"Yes," he said, helping himself to a chair, "this here's all right. This is your manager, eh?" "Mr. Macdonald," said Mr. St. Clair, introducing him. "How do you do? Heard about you some," said the colonel, shaking hands with him. "Quite a knocker, I believe. Well, you rather look like it. Used to do some myself. Been up north, so the boss says. Good country, eh?"
"Daisy, when is your mother coming home?" "Oh, she is gone to China; Daisy's mother is gone to China!" "She'll bring you lots of queer things, won't she?" "What a sweet dress!" "That didn't come from China?" "Daisy, who's head in mathematics, you or St. Clair? I hope you will get before her!" "Why?" I ventured to ask. "Oh, you're the best of the two; everybody knows that. But St.
It does seem a shame to pay out so much money, and then not have things to your liking." "Oh, the party was good enough," said Mr. St. Clair, "you're too fussy about trifles, Isabel. Come, children, scurry off to bed, you'll get no beauty sleep to-night, I fear." Patty went to her room, and taking her mother's picture, sat down to talk to it, as she did nearly every night.
Clair, not anticipating that any particular caution would be used by the bee-hunter and his friends, at this great distance from the place where they had escaped from their foes. But the arrival of Peter, his sagacity, and knowledge of Indian habits, prevented the result that was expected.
But as soon as the negotiations had wholly failed, the campaign was opened with as much vigor as the nature of the case would admit. The general was able, however, to do no more this autumn, than to advance into the forest towards the country of the savages, six miles in advance of fort Jefferson. He took possession of the ground on which the fatal defeat of St. Clair had taken place, in 1792.
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