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"I want to tell you something, Mawruss," Abe replied. "Harris Rabin could sell a phonograft to a deef-and-dummy. He could sell moving pictures to a home for the blind, Mawruss. He could also sell anything he wanted to anybody, Mawruss, for you know as well as I do, Mawruss, Harris Rabin is a first-class, A-number-one salesman.
After that the allusions to her were less frequent, but it was mentioned that she was as fond of them as ever, and that she was still unmarried. "She always asks when you are coming home, Dick," Mrs. Holland said, in the last letter he had received before accompanying General Harris to Vellore.
Wednesday, Colonel Harris rose early as had been his habit from childhood. He was exacting in his family, and also as a manager of labor. Every morning at six o'clock all the family had to be at the breakfast table. Colonel Harris always asked the blessing. Its merit was its brevity: sometimes he only said "Dear Lord, make us grateful and good to-day. Amen."
"They seem to be looking for it." "He's a hard citizen, that roan," Evans remarked. "I'll wrangle for you, Cal." Harris stepped over to the horse. "I wonder what old Blue can do," he said. He hooked the roan in the shoulder as he mounted and the horse plunged his head between his knees and rose in the air.
"Don't press them too much," Chris had ordered before the band separated, "or they will break down. Listen for my whistle; when you hear it, Field, Willesden, Harris, and Bryan will follow up the herd with the Kaffirs and keep them moving, the rest will dismount, make their horses lie down, and open fire. That narrow valley we passed through yesterday afternoon will do to make a stand.
"You haven't been enjoying it any more than the rest of us which is mighty little; but you've got insides enough to let on like it's considerable sport which is a whole lot." "No one else has done any beefing," Deane said. "So why should I?" "This is everyday business with us," Harris pointed out. "And right unusual for you.
The commodore had great opportunity of information, was a man of very superior ability, and indefatigable in his inquiries upon all subjects, as appears by the excellent account of his voyage, and of Achin in particular, written by himself, and published in Thevenot's collection, of which there is an English translation in Harris; but it is possible he may, in this instance, have been amused by a plausible tale from the grandson of this monarch, with whom he had much intercourse.
Through eastern lawyers, a settlement of the Harris affairs was effected, the whole of the property being turned over to Anita, thereby placing her and Fearless Frank above want for a lifetime. Therefore they gave up their interest in the Flower Pocket mines to Redburn and the "General." Calamity Jane is still in the Hills.
He is very active and is all the time on the alert in viewing everything that is worth seeing. The Emperor is also extremely partial to the United States; everything American pleases him, and he seems uncommonly interested in the welfare of our country. "I was introduced to-day to Mr. Harris, our chargé d'affaires to the court of Russia.
"Did you ever know of his having perhaps, you may have heard of his having a mulatto boy, named George?" "O, certainly, George Harris, I know him well; he married a servant of my mother's, but has escaped, now, to Canada." "He has?" said Madame de Thoux, quickly. "Thank God!" George looked a surprised inquiry, but said nothing. Madame de Thoux leaned her head on her hand, and burst into tears.
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