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I asked Lemuel if he could throw straight enough to throw the handkerchief-ball into the window, and he said he could, and took the handkerchief, but a brighter idea came to me, and I turned to the eloping young lady. "Let me have your handkerchief, if it has your initials on it," I said; "for when he sees that fall into his room he will know you are here.
Ever had much practice with the wood- saw?" "No," said Lemuel, with a throb of home-sickness, that brought back the hacked log behind the house, and the axe resting against it; "we always chopped our stove-wood." "Yes, that's the way in the country. Well, now," said the other, "I'll show you how to choose a saw. Don't you be took in by no new saw because it's bright, and looks pretty.
So there!" "Well, if it was a sack! And after all, the young man was gone when I got down int' the street," concluded 'Manda Grier solemnly. Lemuel had thought she was talking about him; but now a pang of jealousy went through him, and showed at the eyes he fixed on her. "I don't know what I sh'd 'a' done," she resumed demurely, "if I hadn't have found Mr.
The name of Krill has hardly been noticed. The public know that Aaron Norman was murdered. No one talks of Lemuel Krill, or thinks that I am the widow of the murdered man. Possibly I may come across some people who will connect the two names, and look askance at me, but the majority of people such as Lord George there," she pointed with her fan, "do not think of me in the way you say.
He tried to find out how he employed his leisure time, saying that he always sympathised with young men away from home, and suggesting the reading-room and the frequent lectures at the Young Men's Christian Union for his odd moments. He learned that Lemuel had not many of these during the week, and that on Sundays he spent all the time he could get in hearing the different noted ministers.
An old man jumped off the train as it approached his house, and was severely injured. Thus, in 1842, chiefly through the exertions of Lemuel Pomeroy, the Western Railroad was completed, and trains ran from Albany to Boston. Several short local roads have since been constructed, which have done more to bind the county together, and have contributed greatly to its wealth and comfort.
"I think so, too!" said Lemuel; and both gave something like a sigh of relief. "Then that's settled," said Father Golden, "saying and supposing that no objection turns up. Next thing is, what shall we call this child?" All eyes were fixed on the baby, who, now full of warm milk, sat throned on Mother Golden's knee, blinking content.
They were of short duration, however, for Lemuel Hamilton was appointed consul to a foreign port and took his wife and daughters with him. The married sister died, and in course of time one of the sons went to China to learn tea-planting and the other established himself on a ranch in Texas.
"Well, good evening," said Lemuel. "Well, good evening," said Statira. "Well, good evening," said Lemuel again. The next moment they were gone round the corner, and he was left standing before the provision man's, with his packages in his hand.
She should not want he should be clerk, because then they could not have such good times, for they would be more separated. Lemuel heard her restively through, and then broke out fiercely and told her that he had seen enough of waiting on table at the St. Albans for him never to want her to do it; and that the boarders who gave money to the waiters despised them for taking it.
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