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There are no lakes, and the lands about are too poor to be worth mentioning. Half a mile from the village stands the Eagle House, a big, roomy old mansion run by Josiah Rankin for the accommodation of visitors who desire the mountain air at inexpensive rates. The Eagle House is delightfully mismanaged.
How far away they seemed! How queer it was she could not image in her mind any of the familiar scenes, the face of her father or any of the friends she had known so well! She tried to think of her Uncle Josiah, Ophelia, Skinny Rawlins poor fellow, how susceptible was his big, innocent, boyish heart!
I sithed, and murmured instinctively, "George Washington!" "George Granny!" says he. I sithed agin, and kep' sithin'. Says I, "It is bad enough, Josiah Allen, to have you talk about runnin' for senator, and pullin' wires, and etcetery. But, oh, oh! my agony to think my partner is destitute of principle." "I have got as much as most political men, and you'll find it out so, Samantha."
And after Krit went away he had come over from Tirzah Ann's that day, and staid to supper with us I sot there alone, for Josiah had took him back in the democrat, and all the circumstances of that time come back onto me agin. It wuz on a Monday that I had my worst trial with him about that Equinomical Counsel, as I remember well.
William James doubted it and so frankly adopted Pluralism which is perhaps just a way of saying that we cannot reconcile the contending forces in our world order with one over-all-controlling power as his solution of the problem. Josiah Royce has valiantly maintained, through long and subtle argument, the goodness of the whole despite the evil of the incidental.
"We have had a happy time together, Josiah Allen, for over twenty years, but has our sea of life always been perfectly smooth?" "Yes, it has; smooth as glass." "Hain't there never been a cloud in our sky?" "No, there hain't; not a dumb cloud." Sez I, sternly, "There has in mine.
I stood for some time, and I don't know but longer, a lookin' at it, my Josiah a standin' placidly behind me, a lookin' over my shoulder and enjoyin' of it too, till the price wuz mentioned.
And I myself felt that Duty drawed me, bein' quite a case for music. And havin' led the choir for years before my marriage to Josiah Allen, and havin' married a man that sez he can sing. But if the noise he makes is singin', then I would be willin' to say that I never had riz the eight notes, or fell 'em neither.
Josiah put out his arm anxiously, for I wuz indeed a-movin' backwards into a glass case of relics, and the great seen terminated. Miss Flanders and Elam had gone they shrunk from publicity. I guess they wuz afraid it wuz too great a job, the ceremony attendin' our givin' these noble foreigners the freedom of our native town. But they no need to. A willin' mind makes a light job.
John took him his two hundred dollars, as he knew where Josiah would hide I I did not want to know." Her large part in this perilous business began to trouble the Squire. His face had long been to her an open book, and she saw in his silence the man's annoyance. She added instantly, "I could not let John draw it and Josiah would not he was too scared. He had to have his money.
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