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The triangle had been broadened to an oval brow, the chin was held slightly lowered, and there was something in her general aspect, possibly due to the arrangement of folds or colors heaven knows what, for Simon Jefferson was but a poor male observer that made a merit of her very thinness.
"Look at the poor baste," said Pat. "'Tis near dead he is wid thirst." He leaped to the ground and started toward the water barrel in the rear of the wagon. "Hold on, Pat," said the colorless voice of Jefferson Worth. And his words were followed by the report of Texas Joe's forty-five. The Irishman turned to see the strange horse lying dead on the sand.
The condition was without a precedent in our history. Twice had there been a failure to elect a President by the people, and by constitutional provision the election in each instance devolved upon the House. In the first-mentioned case, in 1801, Mr. Jefferson was chosen; and in the latter, in 1825, Mr. John Quincy Adams.
"In the block opposite our bank will be located. They will be working on the vault in another two weeks. While the building is well under way, as you see, the organization of the institution is not yet made public. Only a few of us on the inside, you understand, know who is back of the enterprise." "I see," said Jefferson Worth. "A bank is a good thing for the country."
In the surgical dispensary alone of the Jefferson Medical College Hospital, about one hundred patients are in attendance between twelve and two o'clock every day, and all the time of a large number of assistants is occupied with dressing the cases.
But this point also was yielded in deference to Jefferson, and much to his mortification the concession turned out to be before he was many weeks older. "I anxiously wish," Madison wrote to Jefferson, "that the reception of Genet may testify what I believe to be the real affections of the people." He was amply gratified.
Be so good as to present me affectionately to Mrs. and Miss Adams, to Colonels Smith and Humphreys, and accept assurances of the esteem with which I am, Dear Sir, your friend and servant, Th: Jefferson. LETTER CXLVI. TO JOHN JAY, January 2,1786 Sir, Paris, January 2,1786
"Do not go too far, George. I love Democracy; but I hate Democrats! Now I am sleepy, and as Mr. Jefferson is on the watch, I may go to sleep comfortably. I will talk to you more on these subjects in the morning. Good-night!" He put his hand on his son's shoulder, and looked with a proud confidence into the bright face, lifted to the touch.
I shall be happy to receive your corrections of these ideas, as I have found, in the course of our joint services, that I think right when I think with you. I am, with sincere affection, Dear Sir, your friend and servant, Th: Jefferson. P.S. Monsieur Houdon has agreed to go to America to take the figure of General Washington.
Jefferson, and those are his own words, so don't laugh." "Huh! it's too serious a business to do much laughing," grunted Billy. "I'm just itching all over to see how it comes out. There, that must have been the signal to start. I can see some of the men beginning to make an awful smoke with the apparatus they're handling. What a good imitation of the real thing it is!"
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