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Terror and despair convulsed her features as she uttered these words; but Ephraim interrupted her and, with tearful eyes and faltering voice, confessed that he knew all. Then he repeated what he had heard while listening outside of her tent, and her glance confirmed the tale.

His eyes were all kindness. "How do you do, Comrade?" he said, holding out his hand. "General," said Ephraim, "Mr. President," he added, correcting himself, "how be you?" He shifted the green umbrella, and shook the hand timidly but warmly. "General will do," said the President, with a smiling glance at the tall senator beside him, "I like to be called General."

It was a dangerous play, but Hogan decided to bluff it through. "In view of the fact that I have not received my fee I shall refuse to appear for the defendant!" he announced brazenly. "Indeed!" retorted the judge with sarcasm. "Then I will assign Mr. Ephraim Tutt to the defense. You two gentlemen will please sit down but not leave the courtroom. We may need you."

You scoot back and get the coffee pot, Ephraim, and the big long spoon, they'll probably have one." Back went Ephraim on his errand, and when he returned his eyes were greeted by the sight of the daintily spread luncheon. Heavy brown papers had been spread on the ground, and these were covered with a tablecloth of white crepe paper with a design of green ferns for a border.

But if I do, I shan't do it mainly for my own sake; at any rate, I shall write to you when I get leisure. With love to E., Yours ever, To Rev. Ephraim Peabody, D.D. SHEFFIELD, Nov. 10, 1856.

But the practical weave of circumstance that tended to attract the Labadists to Maryland centred in the fact that, as stated in their narrative, they met in New York one Ephraim Herrman, a young trader from Maryland and Delaware, then recently married. This was the son of Augustine Herrman, "first founder and seater of Bohemia Manor."

Autumn came, and Susannah's faith in man was tested to the utmost by the dreariness of daily disappointment. If Ephraim were dead surely his mother or his friend would return her letters. If Ephraim were not dead what could be the explanation of this silence?

Heywood, taking down his rifle from the side of the hut opposite to the chimney, and examining the priming, "but these fellows may have tracked you back, and are even now, lurking near us. Ephraim Giles, you should have told me of this before." "And so," replied the soldier, "I was goin' to, when Loup Garou began with his capers.

Soon after Ephraim took leave of the old slave and bade him give Kasana's nurse the cloak and tell her that the messenger had followed her advice and his uncle's. Then he set off on his walk. He escaped unchallenged from the Egyptian camp and, as he entered the wilderness, he heard the shout with which he called his shepherds in the pastures.

I'll bark his nose quicker'n a brindle caow kin kick over a pail of milk, by gum!" Ephraim was in earnest. "Hold on," said Frank, quickly, "what are you going to do?" "Fight, by gum!" "But you can't fight here." "Why not?" "You would be arrested and placed in the guard tent." "Wal, ef a feller can't fight, whut ye makin' all this taowse abaout?"