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Sampson saw his mistake, and said to Edward, with some concern, "Maircy on us, she is not in love with Him still, is she? I thought that young parson was the man now." Edward shook his head: but declined to go much into a topic so delicate as his sister's affections: and just then an alarming letter was delivered from Mrs. Dodd.
Next to General Grant, I'd sooner shake her hand than anybody's livin'." "Do you mean to say that Miss Lucretia is in Brampton and spoke at the mass meeting?" "Spoke!" exclaimed Ephraim, "callate she did some. Tore 'em all up. They'd a hung Isaac D. Worthington or Levi Dodd if they'd a had 'em thar."
Being brandied by a good-natured French sailor, he winked his eye; being brandied greatly, he staggered up and butted his benefactor like a man. Fullalove had dry clothes and a blazing fire ready for Dodd at a little rude auberge. He sat over it and dried a few bank-notes. he had loose about him, and examined his greater treasure, his children's.
You'd better hunt." "It's slow work and eats up time," sighed Mr. Mullaney. Dodd looked at him for a time and then began to pull crumpled bills from his waistcoat pocket. He straightened five ten-dollar bills, creased them into a trough, and stuck the end toward the detective. "Follow his trail back. I never heard of your book scheme before. Take this money for a starter.
A simultaneous ejaculation broke from Aunt Sally and Mrs. Mayfield the possible comment of posterity on the whole episode. "Well, Jeff, I reckoned you'd be up to suthin' like that!" "Well, Jessie! I knew you couldn't be trusted." Mr. James Dodd did not return from the Forks that afternoon, to Jeff's vague uneasiness.
Don't think a chap's got any right to marry a girl under present circs. It's ten to one she's a widow before she's a mother. SMITH. Oh, shut up! To some women the kid would be just the one thing that made life bearable. Sorry, sir; forgot you'd just done it. Course you're right. Depends absolutely on the girl. CAPTAIN DODD. Thanks. I say, Whiston, I'm going to B.H.Q. Care to come along?
As she neared the boy he stepped to one side and let her pass, looking up into her face as she went by. She returned his glance and smiled, and "Dodd" answered back with something akin to a blush, though the expression was such a stranger to his face that the superficial observer might have failed correctly to classify it at first sight.
Right opposite to the school house where this woman taught was a rich man's residence, in the front yard of which there stood a marble statue, a bronze deer, a cast-iron dog and a stone rabbit. "Dodd" used to look over to these when he was very tired from sitting up so straight so long, and wish that Miss Spinacher had a roomful of such for pupils.
"I promise you, I am quite unchanged," returned Dodd. "The red tablecloth at the top of the stick is not my flag; it's my partner's. He is not dead, but sleepeth. There he is," he added, pointing to a bust which formed one of the numerous unexpected ornaments of that unusual cabin. Havens politely studied it. "A fine bust," said he; "and a very nice-looking fellow."
"In the midst of this you connived with others to steal the records from the courthouse. You were a treble villain, for you set the Rev. Mr. Dodd to a deed you afterwards held over him as a threat and drove him from the town for fear of exposure, forcing him to give you the papers he held against Jean Le Claire's claims to the half-section on the Neosho.
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