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'Well, it don't seem like I'd have much use for it after all, says Harvey. 'Of course I can always get a new one if my fancy happens to run that way again. "So old Safety First buys a new loaded rifle that he ain't got a use on earth for. It would of looked to outsiders like he was throwing his money away on fripperies, but he knew it was a prime necessity of life all right.
Save Harvey, the venerable porter, I was the last to leave the store in the evening, and I always came away with the taste on my palate of Breck and Company's mail, it being my final duty to "lick" the whole of it and deposit it in the box at the corner. The gum on the envelopes tasted of winter-green. My Cousin Robert was somewhat astonished at my application.
On the 5th of June, 1810, the first Court of Record was held in a frame building erected by Elias and Harvey Murray, on the north side of Superior Street, of which Judge Ruggles was President, assisted by three Associate Judges. George Wallis and family arrived this year and opened a tavern. Samuel and Matthew Williamson began business as tanners. Dr.
At best, she had felt towards her that contemptuous toleration which inferior minds often extend to higher ones. And now why, she hated her. In London, as it happened, that very morning, Herminia, walking across Regent's Park, had fallen in with Harvey Kynaston, and their talk had turned upon this self-same problem.
A few days later he was out with Manuel on what should have been forty-fathom bottom, but the whole length of the roding ran out, and still the anchor found nothing, and Harvey grew mortally afraid, for that his last touch with earth was lost. "Whale-hole," said Manuel, hauling in. "That is good joke on Disko.
I will show you, this evening, several pictures about clouds and springs of water, which will help you to understand what I have said." "Uncle," said Samuel, "there is one more question which I would like to ask." "Ask it, my boy," replied Mr. Harvey. "I have read, sir, that the water of the ocean is salt; why, then, is not rain water salt, too?" "Because," said Mr.
The three boats were pretty close together, and Harvey, exhausted by the events of the day, and knowing that Tessa was safe with the second mate, was just dozing off into a "monkey's sleep" when he was awakened by a hail from Atkins. "What's the matter, Atkins?" cried Oliver. "We're all right, sir; but Miss Remington has just come to, and is asking for Mr.
"One hour?" said the Skinner, showing his teeth, and looking with a longing eye at the money. "But a single hour; here, take the money." "Hold!" cried Harvey. "Put no faith in the miscreant." "She may do what she pleases with her faith," said the Skinner, with malignant pleasure, "but I have the money in good keeping; as for you, Mr.
Harvey had ever seen her mother why, therefore, should she speak of her as "dear"? and as to the boys and girls, they were not specially remarkable for their good looks, and if they were, Mrs. Harvey knew nothing about it. She answered these conventional inquiries in a quiet voice. "I hope you'll forgive me," she said, at the first possible pause, "but I am in a very great hurry.
Had a few war babies, and they grew up." Sara Lee looked at it, and for just an instant, a rather sickening instant, she saw Henri's shattered low car, battle-scarred and broken. "It's lovely," said Sara Lee. And Harvey found no fault with her tone. Sara Lee had intended to go to Anna's, for a time at least. But she found that Belle was expecting her and would not take no.
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