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"What a low comedian you really are, Peter!" Well, the weeks passed, and to mark progress he occasionally sent me clippings of telegrams, cut not from his pages, if you please, but from such austere journals as the Sun and World of New York, the North American of Philadelphia, the Courant of Hartford, recording the antics of his imaginary thing of the woods.
Beyond this the plain stretched, empty as the sky, a brown butte rising here and there. Susan heard hoof beats behind her and turned. Courant was riding toward her, his rifle across his saddle.
But you mean to re-appear in society next season, I hope, when you present your granddaughter? 'I shall certainly go up to London to present her, and possibly I may spend the season in town; but I shall feel like Rip Van Winkle. 'No, no, you won't, my dear Di. You have kept yourself au courant, I know. Even my silly gossiping letters may have been of some use. 'They have been most valuable.
He enlisted the day after Sumter was fired upon, and remained in the service until the rebel armies surrendered, when he returned to his home and became editor of the Hartford Courant, with which his name has been conspicuously identified for many years.
She always felt with Courant that she would be swept aside as a trivial thing if she lost her dignity. He watched her and she grew nervous, plucking at her skirt with an uncertain hand. "I wonder if you could?" he said after a pause. "Of course not," she snapped. "Aren't you enough of a woman?" "I'm not enough of a fool." "Aren't all women in love fools anyway for a while?"
"Well, nephew," said Miss O'Donoghue, "I am much obliged to you, I am sure, for putting me au courant of the family affairs. It is all very sad very sad and very deplorable; but " But Mr. Landale was quite aware that Tanty was not yet convinced to the desired extent.
The closing sentence referred to the action of the Legislature in enacting that Franklin should publish nothing more without first submitting it to the Secretary of the Province and receiving his endorsement legislation that will be quoted in the next chapter. Franklin continued to issue the Courant after his imprisonment with more plainness and exposure of public wrongs than he did before.
Turk had watched every movement of the prince and his aides in the hope of in some way securing a clue to her identity or whereabouts. There was but one proposition left; the purchase of Courant. This plan seemed feasible until Turk reported, after diligent search, that the French detective could not be found.
He wrote an admirable Life of Dr. Chalmers, whose son-in-law he was, and ed. his works. Novelist and journalist, was b. at Dumfries, and after serving for some years in the navy took to literature, and became ed. of the Edinburgh Courant. He wrote two novels, Singleton Fontenoy , and Eustace Conyers ; also Lectures on Satire and Satirists, and Studies on Thackeray.
This was an additional fund for buying of books; but I had another advantage in it. Now it was, that, being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed learning when at school, I took Cocker's book on arithmetic, and went through the whole by myself with the greatest ease." Mr. Parton says of the Courant, "It was a most extraordinary sheet.
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