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There was something restful and inspiriting, as if she absorbed his generous, superabundant strength. So they almost forgot about Hanny, or thought her with the others. And now she came walking slowly down to them with a strange young man. "Why, who can it be?" in a tone of surprised inquiry. Daisy Jasper studied a moment. "Why, it looks like no, it cannot be yes, it is Mr. Andersen."
Darrell did not even answer the letters that Matilda addressed to him from France, to the shores of which Jasper had borne her, and where he had hastened to make her his wife under the assumed name of Hammond, but his true Christian name of Jasper.
On, on, dashed the men until they reached the town of Jasper, tired and provoked. Like many other men, North or South, they were brave enough when it came to gunpowder, but were quickly vanquished at the idea of pestilential disease.
Brick walls and cobbled streets are all very well in their way; but they make but dreary dwelling-places for those who have promised themselves cities where the walls are of jasper and the pavements of gold.
He quitted the library as he spoke. Sir Jasper Kingsland seized the bell and rang a shrill peal. "Ride to the village ride for your life!" he said, imperatively, to the servant who answered, "and fetch the Reverend Cyrus Green here at once."
East Tennessee did not tear itself loose from the Union; Andrew Johnson and Parson Brownlow, one a statesman and the other a fanatic, strangled the edicts of the lordly lowlanders and sent regiment after regiment to the Federal army. Among the first to enlist were old Jasper Starbuck and his twin boys. The boys did not come back.
After receiving Sukey's letter, Dic left home for a few days to engage horses to take east with him in the spring. He did not return until late in the afternoon of the day before Christmas. On the morning of that day the day before Christmas Jasper Yates, Sukey's father, came to Billy Little's store in great agitation.
Taken by surprise, Jasper paused and looked at the girl. "Thank you," he replied. "I am glad you believe in me." "And so does Miss Lois," Betty explained. "She's standing right there," and she motioned to the right. Jasper turned, saw Lois, and their eyes met.
One of these is his own sleeping chamber: the other is his nephew's. There is a light in each. His nephew lies asleep, calm and untroubled. John Jasper stands looking down upon him, his unlighted pipe in his hand, for some time, with a fixed and deep attention. Then, hushing his footsteps, he passes to his own room, lights his pipe, and delivers himself to the Spectres it invokes at midnight.
'Just so, Jasper; I see 'Something very much like a cuckoo, brother? 'I see what you are after, Jasper. 'You would like to get rid of us, wouldn't you? 'Why, no; not exactly. 'We are no ornament to the green lanes in spring and summer time; are we, brother? and the voices of our chies, with their cukkerin and dukkerin, don't help to make them pleasant? 'I see what you are at, Jasper.
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