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He come home rampant with a new idee. All wrought up about goin' into politics. He broached the subject to me before he onharnessed, hitchin' the old mair for the purpose. He wanted to be United-States senator. He said he thought the nation needed him. "Needs you for what?" says I coldly, cold as a ice suckle. "Why, it needs somebody it can lean on, and it needs somebody that can lean.
In ordinary circumstances Hitchin would have been in bed, and Cuttance knew his habits sufficiently to be aware of this; his surprise, therefore, was great when he found lights burning, and greater still when, peeping through a chink of the window-shutter, he observed two stout fellows seated at the old man's table.
The Woman question was rather a dangerous one in Polterham just now; that period of Revivalism, and the subsequent campaign of Mrs. Hitchin, had left a sore feeling in not a few of the townsfolk. "Don't be afraid, Mr. Toft," was the laughing reply. "You will stand amazed at my moderation; I am dead against Female Suffrage." "That is safe, I think. You'll find Mrs.
The only manner in which I could account for my presence in Hitchin was that, believed to be dead by the Baron and his accomplices, I had been conveyed in a car to the spot where I was found. What, I wondered, had become of the fair-haired young man whom I had seen unconscious opposite me?
Hitchin were seen to turn round in their places and make a sign to their men, and the demonstration ceased. Mr. Waddington then rose as if nothing at all had happened and said, "Any ladies and gentlemen wishing to join the League will please come up to the platform and give their names to Miss Madden. Any persons wishing to subscribe at once, may pay their subscriptions to Miss Madden.
I ain't got a bit of patience with people that get theirselves sick in bed and be a nuisance to everybody, just for the pleasure of slopping around in the slush on a day like this. I'm going to fix you some toast and a egg, while he's hitchin' up." "Go on with the story, 'Telia," demanded Bertie, carefully bestowing a nose on the dough man.
"I cannot tell," replied Oliver; "you can form your own judgment of the matter more correctly than I can, but I would advise you to be on your guard." "What says your friend?" asked Hitchin, turning towards Tregarthen, of whom, up to that point, he had taken no notice.
The elevation and amiability of his character caused him to be held in high esteem. He did not class himself with Unitarians of the school of Priestley, but claimed to "stand aloof from all but those who strive and pray for clearer light." Dramatist and translator, was b. near Hitchin, and probably ed. at Oxf. and Camb.
"Rabbit's still up there on the Big Wind waiting for you, is she?" "She'll wait a long time! I'm done with Indians. Joan comin' over today?" "Tomorrow." "I don't guess you'll have her to bother with much longer her and that Reid boy they'll be hitchin' up one of these days from all the signs. He skirmishes off over that way nearly every day.
"Cuttance," he said, "it is not unlikely that, if brought to justice, you will swing for this night's adventure." He paused and glanced at the face of his prisoner, who still maintained rigid silence. "Well," continued our hero, "I believe that your intentions against Mr Hitchin were not so bad as they would appear to be " "Who told 'ee that?" asked the smuggler sternly.
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