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It was folly in the beginning, and it is madness now." Mrs. Loring would have questioned her niece closely as to the meaning of Mr. Dexter's allusion to a certain individual as having been too intimate with his wife, but these closing remarks fell like rebuke upon her ears.
Dexter's operations may be described as only consisting of a little well-managed Dexterity! A young man "out West," claiming to be influenced by spirits, astonished people by reading names, telling time by watches, etc., in a dark room. He sat at a centre-table, which was covered with a cloth, in the middle of the room. Investigators sat next the walls.
Dexter's and she had heard Mrs. Dexter's cry of horror, and had darted out to learn what it meant. Mrs. Dexter went to the bed, gently and unconsciously putting Miriam aside, and bent over the motionless form. "He is not dead," she said, in a whisper. "Oh, thank God!" broke from Miriam's white lips, and she turned to Celia and grasped her arm.
But he was a nice old fellow, who wanted to get back to his home in southeastern Alaska, and envied me my departure. Arrived at Chenik, I put up at Dexter's Hotel, a pretentious and comfortable structure recently erected by that pioneer of northwestern Alaska.
"It must come by degrees, papa," Helen said; "and any advice given now would only make him more conscious." Dexter's hair still looked horribly short, but his face did not quite resemble now that of a boy who had just risen from a sick-bed.
Want any thing else, Lyddy?" "No, thank you. The house is very nice and still this morning. There's a picnic up at the Dexter's farm, isn't there? I suppose they've all gone to it." "Of course. Who ever heard of a picnic unless Phebe went along to do all the fussing and mussing that everybody else shirks?
Dexter and edited by him in Rider's Tracts, No. xiv., 1881. The treatment of Roger Williams by the government of Massachusetts is thoroughly discussed in Dexter's As to Roger Williams, Boston, 1876. See also G.E. Ellis on "The Treatment of Intruders and Dissentients by the Founders of Massachusetts," in Lowell Lectures, Boston, 1869. The case of Mrs.
"Second Question: What motive influenced Miserrimus Dexter's conduct, when Mrs. "Answer: In all probability, Dexter's guilty fears suggested to him that he might have been watched on the morning when he secretly entered the chamber in which the first Mrs. Eustace lay dead.
That last vigorous cut did it, and the bough, with its summer burden of leaves, dropped with a splash into the water. "There! What did I tell you!" cried Dexter's mentor. "Now you can get back and pull all out together. Fish won't bite for a bit after this, but they'll be all right soon." Dexter shut up his knife, thrust it as well as he could into his pocket, and prepared to return.
Dexter's evidence, given at the Trial, seems as clear and reasonable as evidence can be." "Of course it is!" answered Mrs. Macallan. "The shorthand writers and reporters put his evidence into presentable language before they printed it.
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