United States or Hungary ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I'll put a bunch of terriers in there that will be hard for Slade to uproot," Harris said. "What do you say, Billie? Let's give it a try." "I'd like to see it done," she said. "But so much depends on the outcome. I'll have to write Judge Colton first. He has all my affairs in charge." Harris smiled across at her. "That's right peculiar," he observed.
This Lane business and Nellie's gettin' married have sort of possessed me, same as the evil spirits did the swine, in scriptur'. I lay awake nights fussin' for fear the marriage won't turn out happy or for fear you'll sell the Lane after all. And one's just as likely to happen as t'other which means they're both impossible, I cal'late. But look out for that Colton girl, whatever else you do.
Crawford was to ride alone to Crawfordsville, see Colton Gray, of the P. C. & W., tell him that the Crawford Reclamation Company had made good its part of the contract, invite him out to Dam Number One to see what was done, and to insist that the P. C. & W. keep to its part of the contract, beginning work immediately upon the railroad into the Valley.
It added increased bitterness to the humiliation of my errand. I had left that room defiantly expressing my independence. I had come back to it "Sit down," ordered Colton, pulling forward the big, leather-covered chair. "Have a cigar?" "No thank you." "Humph! That's what you said when you were here before. You're young, Paine.
"Don't shoot," said a voice from the doorway; "I'll come down." I lowered the gun, turned and looked. "Big Jim" Colton was standing there, cigar in mouth, cap on the back of his head and both hands in his pockets, exactly as he had appeared in that same doorway when he and I first met. The expected had happened, part of it at least.
I was nearing the end of the operation when she came over to watch. "Why are you doing that?" she asked. "You are not going to cook them now are you?" "I am going to try," I replied. "But how? You haven't anything to cook them in." "I don't need it. You don't appreciate the conveniences of this hotel, Miss Colton. There! now we're ready."
Quaint is the phrase, ingenuous the wit Of this great childish seaman in Palestine, Mocked home through Italy after his release With threats of the Armada; and all of it Warms me like firelight jewelling old wine In some ghost inn hung with the golden fleece! Arthur Colton, B.A. 1890, is as quiet and reflective as Mr. Benét is strenuous.
We've been talking you over, and have concluded to back you up for all we are worth as soon as you are ready that is to say we would but for one drawback your friendship with Colton." "If you choose to call it that.
"I don't hear much good in any direction," he murmured. "Of course, I can understand that you have seen through Tom Colton, and that he has appalled you as much as the fossils. He's in a hurry, and if he isn't mighty careful the machine will throw him down.
And Beriah Doane was over to Ostable yesterday and he says it's town talk there that young Parker the boy the auto crowd was sayin' good-by to at the hotel had to be helped up to his room. No, I guess likely the Colton girl objected to her feller's gettin' tight and forgettin' her, so he and she had a row and her dad, the emperor, give him his discharge papers.
Word Of The Day