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When the days of early summer came again, when from his desk he could see the sunshine lighting the soft green of Holliday's Hill, with the glint of the river and the purple distance beyond, it seemed to him that to be shut up with a Webster spelling-book and a cross teacher was more than human nature could bear.
'And what's more, he's gone off so fast, that I'll warrant you don't wake him. This way, sir, said the landlord, speaking over young Holliday's shoulder, as if he was addressing some new guest who was approaching the house. 'Here you are, said Arthur, determined to be beforehand with the stranger, whoever he might be.
Holliday's overland coaches three years before, and had by no means forgotten it or lost his gushing admiration of Mr.
Holliday's bull-strength was not believable. Again he got him just above the belt. And he couldn't help it this time this time he had to do it. He dropped a little his guard. And then it happened. It struck him then. The roof came down! As he lay head on the arm curled under him he knew it must have been the roof. By nothing else could he have been so smitten.
At three o'clock Roger accompanied a small deputation of the police to Sartorius's house. In the main bedroom they found considerable disorder drawers pulled out and their contents strewn about, various signs of hasty leave-taking, though how much of this was due to the doctor's own departure and how much to Holliday's was difficult to determine, as the two men had occupied the same room.
Are you a coward, too, sir, as well as a ruffian?" "Enough!" the German gasped. "Swartzberg," he said, turning to his friend, "make the arrangements; for I vow I will kill this insolent puppy in the morning." Lord Fairholm at once stepped forward to the Hessian captain. "I shall have the honour to act as Mr. Holliday's second. Here is my card. I shall be at home all the evening."
In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. It appeared to pierce the skies. It was nearly three hundred feet high. In those days I pondered the subject much, but I never could understand why it did not swathe its summit with never-failing clouds, and crown its majestic brow with everlasting snows.
There's going to be a row. They say that Doctor Lanham's taken Susan, and all the other children, out of school, because the master thrashed Lummy, and they say Bob Holliday's quit, and that you're going to quit, and Doctor Lanham's gone to work this morning to get the master put out at the end of the term. Mr.
'Yes, says I, 'and he'll be one in heaven any minute if he goes stumblin' acrost the road in front of Doctor Holliday's automobile the way I see him yesterday. The doctor put on the brakes with a slam and a yell. The minister stopped right there in the middle of the road with the front wheels of that auto not MORE'N two foot from his old baggy trousers' knees, and says he, 'Eh?
His memoir of Joyce Kilmer is a fitting token of the manly affection that sweetens life and enriches him who even sees it from a distance. Just when Holliday's connection with the Scribner store ceased I do not know. My guess is, about 1911.
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