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Whereupon Archie bought the stock from Eliphalet and sent it with ten thousand dollars in cash to Seebrook, enclosing in the packet he confided to Briggs for delivery a note explaining that the theft had been a mere bit of pleasantry for which the guilty person offered the sincerest apologies. Before he left the North the Governor made generous provision for all who had shared his fortunes.
New and thriftier methods of trade from New England were fast replacing the old open-handedness of the large houses. Competition had begun, and competition is cruel. Edwards, James, & Company had taken a Yankee into the firm. They were now Edwards, James, & Doddington, and Mr. Edwards's coolness towards the Colonel was manifest since the rise of Eliphalet. They were rivals now instead of friends.
Edwards," said Eliphalet Means, with no impatience. He regarded a woman as so incontrovertibly a patience-tryer, from the laws of creation, that he would as soon have waxed impatient with the structural order of things. He endeavored to explain matters with imperturbable persistency, but Ann was still unconvinced. "I ain't goin' to sign my name to any other mortgage," said she.
Faithfully to relate how Eliphalet Hopper came try St. Louis is to betray no secret. Mr. Hopper is wont to tell the story now, when his daughter-in-law is not by; and sometimes he tells it in her presence, for he is a shameless and determined old party who denies the divine right of Boston, and has taken again to chewing tobacco.
Eliphalet Hopper, on his return from business, was met on the steps and requested to wear his Sunday clothes. Like the good republican that he was, Mr. Hopper refused. He had ascertained that the golden charm which made the Brices worthy of tribute had been lost. Commercial supremacy, that was Mr. Hopper's creed.
But Eliphalet, he had scarcely time to think this out when he heard both sounds again, not one after another, but both together, and something told him some sort of an instinct he had that those two ghosts didn't agree, didn't get on together, didn't exactly hit it off; in fact, that they were quarreling." "Quarreling ghosts! Well, I never!" was Baby Van Rensselaer's remark.
"I don't cal'late to be a sentimental critter. I'm not much on high-sounding phrases, and such things, but I'd give you my word I'd make a good husband." "Please be careful of those roses, Mr. Hopper." "Beg pardon," said Eliphalet. He began to lose track of his tenses that was the only sign he gave of perturbation. "When I come to St.
And I got a thousand dollar order from Wright & Company this week for him." "I dare say you'd keep a tight hand enough on expenses," said Miss Crane, half in sarcasm, half in approval. "If Colonel Carvel was doin' business in New England," said Eliphalet, "he'd been bankrupt long ago." "That young Clarence Colfax," Mrs.
And these be the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shammuah, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, Ibhar also, and Elishua, and Nepheg, and Japhia, and Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphalet. 2 Samuel v. 13-16.
His own discrepancy between the real and the imagined was no greater than that of the rest of his fellow-boarders. Barring Eliphalet, there was a dress parade that evening, silks and bombazines and broadcloths, and Miss Crane's special preserves on the tea-table. Alas, that most of the deserved honors of this world should fall upon barren ground! The quality which baffled Mr.
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