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Two boats, already, were in collision, and with great difficulty were saved from sinking. "We'll have to make for the shore and tie up," he shouted to Henry, who was in the boat next to him. "I think it's the most violent storm I ever saw on the Mississippi." "We may find a sheltered place," Henry shouted back above the roar of the wind. "There's nothing else to do," said Adam Colfax.
"Any particular place you want to go, sir?" asked the chauffeur. "No," replied the shipbuilder. "You know the way around this part of the world better than we do. Take us out into the surrounding country, and show us anything you consider of interest." "Yes, sir." After a few minutes the car had left Colfax behind. They were out on the beginning of a country road, now.
My Lady would not wipe her feet upon him, but she be sore vexed that he has sent her no word. Mon Dieu, but thou hast strange notions, Bertrade." "I will not talk with you, Mary," cried Bertrade, stamping her sandaled foot, and with a toss of her pretty head she turned abruptly toward the castle. In a small chamber in the castle of Colfax two men sat at opposite sides of a little table.
One would have thought that this terrific blow would have given Eugene pause in a way, and it did. It frightened him. Mrs. Dale had gone to Colfax in order to persuade him to use his influence to make Eugene behave himself, and, having done so much, she was actually prepared to go further.
In absences which had become more frequent, as Eugene became more secure, and as he took up with Winfield, they had first gone to Colfax for advice, and later, in Colfax's absence, to White. The latter received them with open arms. Indeed, among themselves, his lieutenants frequently discussed Eugene and agreed that in organizing, or rather reorganizing the place, he had done his great work.
Half a mile through the cool forest, the black dirt of the driveway flying from Vixen's hoofs, and there was the Colfax house on the edge of the, gentle slope; and beyond it the orchard, and the blue grapes withering on the vines, and beyond that fields and fields of yellow stubble. The silver smoke of a steamboat hung in wisps above the water.
Lobel, now," protested Colfax, born a Sims but living it down and feeling that never more than at this minute, when rudely the steersman's helm had been snatched from his grasp, was there greater need that he should be a Colfax through and through "but, Mr. Lobel, it was my idea that up to this point anyway the action should be played with restraint to sort of prepare the way for "
They are bringing them one hundred and twenty miles, from Springfield to Rollo, in rough army wagons, with scarcely anything to eat or drink." "And Clarence?" "His name is not there." "Thank God!" exclaimed Mrs. Colfax. "Are the Yankees beaten?" "Yes," said Virginia, coldly. "At what time shall I order the carriage to take you to Bellegarde?" Mrs.
The free pose of the girl standing in front of her companions, a blue wisp of autumn sunlight falling at her feet. The young Prince laughing at her sallies, and the elderly gentleman smiling with benevolence upon the pair. Virginia danced with the Prince, "by Special Appointment," at the ball that evening. So did her aunt, Mrs. Addison Colfax.
"An' I'm here, too," said Jim Hart, uprearing his thin six feet four. "So am I," said Paul, as he drew himself over the rail of the Independence. "All of you alive and well!" exclaimed Adam Colfax, departing for once from his New Hampshire calm. "All returned from the dead together! I feel as if an army had come to our relief!" "We ain't been dead," said Shif'less Sol.
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