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Ho, ho! his comrade hath found him again, the Artist and the Gravestealer leashed together! Conceive that fancy so nurtured by habit, those tastes, so womanized by indulgence, the one suggesting the very horrors that are not; the other revolting at all toil as a torture. But intellect, not all gone, though hourly dying heavily down to the level of the brute, yet schemes for delivery and escape.
"Squire" Hawkins got his title from being postmaster of Obedstown not that the title properly belonged to the office, but because in those regions the chief citizens always must have titles of some sort, and so the usual courtesy had been extended to Hawkins. The mail was monthly, and sometimes amounted to as much as three or four letters at a single delivery.
It's the period when $200,000,000 are needed for crop-transportation and delivery. That means financial equinox." The young Titan glanced seriously from one to the other. "I know of influences coming to a head tomorrow which are calculated to throw the Street and Exchange into panic condition unless we devise means of averting that catastrophe. For that reason I asked you to come here tonight."
They're mighty sweet about here; and whether a man is young or old, Tommy, there's always some woman as is brake or whip to him!" In a certain excited bitterness that characterized the delivery of this abstract truth, Bill did not see that the young man's face flushed slightly as he answered "No." "Then listen.
In a calmer hour she will comprehend that a child must know no lot more enviable and holy than that of redeeming a father's honour. And now, if you are returning to London, may I ask you to convey to young Mr. Hazeldean my assurances of undying gratitude for his share in my daughter's delivery from that poor baffled swindler."
The inquiry bore of course, with Kate's eagerness, on the issue of the morning's scene, the great man's latest wisdom, and it doubtless affected Milly a little as the cheerful demand for news is apt to affect troubled spirits when news is not, in one of the neater forms, prepared for delivery.
Besides, Gertie had been present at their delivery. The Major spent, on the whole, an enjoyable Sunday. He lay in bed till a little after twelve o'clock, with a second-hand copy of the Sporting Times, and a tin of tobacco beside him. They dined at about one o'clock, and he managed to get a little spirit to drink with his meal.
Also there were several bundles of official-looking documents and many American newspapers. Nothing had been forwarded to him for two months, because he had left instructions to hold his mail until further notice. The first part of that time he was moving constantly from one out-of-the-way place to another where postal delivery was slow and uncertain.
Very high prices were sometimes paid, as high even as one hundred dollars, by a late corner to buy from some one lucky enough to be near the head of the line a position near the delivery window. Then if no letter came, how great was the disappointment! One man thus described the mines:
His delivery was described as a "long, monotonous drawl, with fun invariably coming in at the end of a sentence after a pause." He began to be recognized everywhere to have great popularity. People came out on the street to see him pass. Many of his lecture engagements were in central New York, no great distance from Elmira.
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