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'Houghton! he said, gazing on the ghastly features which death was fast disfiguring, 'can this be you? 'I never thought to hear an English voice again, said the wounded man;'they left me to live or die here as I could, when they found I would say nothing about the strength of the regiment.
Montacute Jones was there, and Hetta, Miss Houghton, that is, whom all the world called Hetta, and Mrs. Houghton's father, who happened to be up in town. Again Lady George found herself sitting between her host and Jack De Baron, and again she thought that Jack was a very agreeable companion. The idea of being in any way afraid of him did not enter into her mind.
Houghton as editor of the Boston Atlas; Lund Washington, equally famed as a performer on the violin and writer of short-hand; Samuel L. Knapp, a graduate of Dartmouth College, who abandoned the law for journalism and corresponded with the Boston Gazette, and James Brooks, a graduate of Waterville, afterward the founder of the New York Express and a Representative in Congress, who was the correspondent of the Portland Advertiser and other papers.
I did think I was not of less importance to you." "Nobody ever was or ever can be of so much importance to me as my wife, and I will be on good terms with no one who speaks evil of her." "They may say what they like of me?" "Mr. Houghton must look to that." "It is no business of yours, George?" He paused a moment, and then found the courage to answer her. "No none," he said.
He looked at the father and mother: "You wouldn't have me lie to her, would you? even to save her from herself! ... Of course I love you, Edith, more than anything on earth, but I have no right " "You have a right," she said. "I want you," he said, "God knows, it would mean life to me! But " "Then take me," she said. Mrs. Houghton came and put her arms around her girl and kissed her.
Day after day through the long years I have sat with him at that noonday meal, breathing an atmosphere of wit that was almost intoxicating. It was a wit that was never cruel, never coarse, never anything but kindly and humane. Even his cynicism was genial and good-natured, like that of Lord Houghton himself. I have spoken already of William Black.
Curtis had started home?" ... "I was worried about you, it was so late," she defended herself against his irritated mortification. He used to report these stag parties to Edith, telling her some of the stories he had heard; it didn't occur to him to tell any stories to Eleanor, because, as Henry Houghton had once said, Maurice and his wife didn't "have the same taste in jokes."
It is from Professor Palmer's "Life of Alice Freeman Palmer", published by the Houghton Mifflin Co., that the biographical material for the brief sketch following is derived. Alice Elvira Freeman was born at Colesville, Broome County, New York, on February 21, 1855. She was a country child, a farmer's daughter as her mother was before her. James Warren Freeman, the father, was of Scottish blood.
"The truth is," said Lord George, "that I've never been able to afford to keep horses." "Ah, that's a reason. Mr. Houghton, of course, is a rich man; but I don't know anything so little satisfactory in itself as being rich." "It is comfortable." "Oh yes, it is comfortable; but so unsatisfactory! Of course Mr.
Houghton said, rising. "Why don't you stay to dinner?" Maurice urged but Eleanor was silent. "If you are in town next week, Skeezics, you've got to put up here. Understand? Tell her so, Eleanor!" Eleanor said nothing. Mrs. Houghton said she was afraid it wouldn't be convenient. Eleanor said nothing. "Of course you will come here!" Maurice said; he was sharply angry at his wife.
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