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There was nothing particularly exciting about the man's appearance, but Primmie seemed to be excited. "See him, Mr. Bangs?" she repeated. "Yes, I see him. Who is he?" "Don't you know? No, course you don't; why should you? He's Cap'n Jethro Hallett, keeps the lighthouse, he does him and Lulie and Zach." "Oh, he is the light keeper, is he? What has he got his head tied up for?" "Hey? HEAD tied up?"
"It is a mercy it is so," Hallett said, in an expression of deep thankfulness, "for there would have been no holding you, if you had come in on your feet." "I Certainly should not have volunteered for this work, Bullen, if I had known what it was like.
"Be hollerin' for Jonah next, won't she? Cal'late so. Yus, yus." Message after message came and was recognized and acknowledged by the devout. The group from the Phipps' house had so far been slighted, so, too, had Captain Jethro Hallett.
It is wretched enough tramping through swamps, but I think I should prefer that to a prolonged stay in this hole." "For once I agree with you thoroughly, Hallett. It is bad enough to march in West Africa, but it is worse to sit still.
When he had had interviews with Greene and Hallett, he became anxious for Sumner's defeat; when he was with the coalitionists he would become, in a measure, reconciled to his election. The truth was, Cushing was destitute of convictions. By his residence in the east he had lost faith in our religion, in our civilization, and, in a degree, in our political system.
She recognized that the college would be theoretically a noble addition to the standing of Benham as a city of intellectual and æsthetic interests, but it provoked her to think that its management was in the hands of Mrs. Hallett Taylor and her friends, between whom and herself she felt that a chasm of irreconcilable differences of opinion existed. Mrs.
I look forward to the Rag as the conclusion of my career. There you meet fellows you know, lie against each other about past campaigns, eat capital dinners, and have your rub of whist, regularly, of an evening." "But, my dear Hallett, think how you would fatten out under such a regime!"
Hallett, of Denford, in Berkshire, dated Long Island, 10th of October, 1817, my name was again brought fully upon the carpet, relative to my opinion of Sir Francis Burdett, as it has been frequently expressed by me in confidence to him.
This was in the year 1859, and at that time Shirreff was the highest authority and the most successful breeder of cereals. Vilmorin's method had been applied only to beets, and Hallett had commenced his pedigree-cultures only a few years before and his first publication of the "Pedigree-wheat" appeared some years later at the International Exhibition of London in 1862.
I come over this mornin' to attend to some business at the court-house deeds to some cranberry bog property I just bought and Judge Baxter made me go home with him to dinner. Stayed at his house all the afternoon, and then his man, Ezra Hallett, undertook to drive me up here to the depot. Talk about blind pilotin'! Whew!
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