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At level weights with the three-year-old, which means that he had twenty pounds the best of it, he should have held his own the whole route to be a stayer, for the colt isn't more'n half ready yet." "I didn't hustle him none too much, sir; I might a-squeezed a bit more out of him. Did we make fair time?" "Quite a feeler, Mister Jockey," thought Langdon to himself; "it's news you want, eh?"
"We can take care of him. The Senator won't see him." Carolina caught the suggestion. "Tell Mr. Haines that Senator Langdon regrets that he cannot possibly receive him," she directed. "Carolina!" There was a ring of protest and pain in Hope Georgia's voice as she darted out of the door after the servant. "What's the matter with that girl?" asked Norton, trying to be calm. Carolina shook her head.
I stole along, and coming to a door, without any idea of where it might lead, I softly pushed it open a little way and slipped in. A low cry greeted me. The room was light. I saw Sally Langdon sitting on her bed in her dressing gown. Shaking my gun at her with a fierce warning gesture to be silent, I turned to close the door.
Unfortunately, that principle of the diminution of estates by division, to which I have referred, rendered it somewhat difficult to maintain the establishment upon the fractional income which the proprietor received from his share of the property. Wentworth Langdon, Esq., represented a certain intermediate condition of life not at all infrequent in our old families.
It's incubated all right, and Peabody and Stevens can come just as soon as they want to." At twenty minutes after 12 Senator Langdon and Secretary Haines were still undisturbed by any move on the part of Peabody and Stevens, who maintained a silence that to Haines was distinctly ominous.
That military consultations were held in that room when the house was General Ward's headquarters, that the Provincial generals and colonels and other men of war there planned the movement which ended in the fortifying of Bunker's Hill, that Warren slept in the house the night before the battle, that President Langdon went forth from the western door and prayed for God's blessing on the men just setting forth on their bloody expedition, all these things have been told, and perhaps none of them need be doubted.
Bernard Langdon, there was a concentration of explosive materials which might at any time change its Arcadian and academic repose into a scene of dangerous commotion. What said Helen Darley, when she saw with her woman's glance that more than one girl, when she should be looking at her book, was looking over it toward the master's desk?
The cider country is still far off, however; for Dorset, though the soil and climate are well suited to it, has not yet looked upon the culture of the apple as an important item in farming, and orchards of any sort are few and small in size. The Lyme road climbs up from Chideock round the steep face of Langdon Hill and reaches its summit level, over 400 feet, about a mile out of the village.
There is a little hymn-book I should like to have you give to Elsie from me; it may be a kind of comfort to the poor girl." Helen's eyes glistened as she interrupted him, "What do you mean? You must not talk so, Mr. Langdon. Why, you never looked better in your life. Tell me now, you are not in earnest, are you, but only trying a little sentiment on me?" Mr. Bernard smiled, but rather sadly.
Envelop adherent, not sealed. Addressed LANGDON ESQ. Present. Brought by H. Frederic Sprowle, youngest son of the Colonel, the H. of course standing for the paternal Hezekiah, put in to please the father, and reduced to its initial to please the mother, she having a marked preference for Frederic. Boy directed to wait for an answer. "Mr. Langdon has the pleasure of accepting Mr. and Mrs.
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