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Lindsay had groped her way to the side of her son, and put her hand on the figure stretched upon the cushion. "I only sprained my foot badly, and Mr. Lindsay was so good as to bring me home this way." "Have they got her?" shouted Hannah, who accompanied by Mr. Hargrove had found it impossible to keep pace with Mrs. Lindsay.
They figured out our range and the very first shell burst about three feet exactly over our breastworks, and the next one or so killed one of our men, named Blackstock, a Georgian. A splinter clipped Horace Martin's ear marked him. Lt. Hargrove was on the bare top of the mountain to see what he could see.
Wouldn't I creep off with him, as meek as a lamb! Ho! ho!" "Who is that old gentleman who came in just now?" I inquired of the person who thus commented on the incident which had just occurred. "Mr. Hargrove is his name." "And that was his son?" "Yes; and I'm only sorry he doesn't possess a little more spirit." "How old is he?" "About twenty." "Not of legal age, then?"
Potter gave me a Boston paper, containing an article marked with ink, which she said she wished me to read, because it would edify a Sunday-school pupil. It was a letter from Italy, describing one of the theatres there, where Madame Odille Orme was playing 'Medea. I cut out the letter, gave it to Mr. Hargrove, and asked him if it meant my mother.
Hargrove ran up interfered forcibly between the combatants and ordered them back to the duties on hand. Some nights after the sergeant was standing by the Captain's fire and no one was near, but Capt. Lumsden, who said: "What was the matter with you and , the other morning?"
The passengers from the evening boats were landed on a wharf partially submerged, and some were taken in boats to a point whence they could reach their carriages. In the elements' disquiet Burt had found an excuse for his own, and he had remained out much of the day. He had not called on Miss Hargrove again, but had ridden far enough to learn that the bridges in that direction were safe.
Hargrove, give me the license that was handed to you by Cuthbert Laurance." "What value can it possess now?" "Just now it is worth more to me than everything else in life, more to me than my hopes of heaven." "Mrs. Laurance, you must remember that I refused to perform the marriage ceremony, because I believed you were both entirely too young.
Peyton Hargrove, and having failed to possess her kingdom had become a merciless spy upon all that happened in the forbidden realm. "Poor Mrs. Prue! what a warfare exists between her name and her character. She should petition the legislature to allow her to be called Mrs. Echidna!
Burt laid down his knife and fork, and exclaimed, "I declare, I forgot all about it!" Miss Hargrove laughed heartily as she said, "A high tribute to me!" and then made known her father's statement that the Clifford tract in the West adjoined his own, that it would soon be very valuable, and that he was interested in the railroad approaching it. "How about the four-leaved clover now?" cried Amy.
Hargrove regarded with discontent the prospect of another long mountain expedition; but Fred, her idol, was wild for it, and in a day or two he must return to school in the city, from which, at his earnest plea, he had been absent too long already; so she smiled her farewell at last upon the fateful excursion.
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