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He reached the United States Senate, and in his first speech in that august body he honored his manhood by an allusion to his father, a stone mason, whose hands, said Broderick, had helped to erect the very walls of the chamber in which he spoke.
She gave her head a significant toss, as if she knew more about the report than she chose to confess. Mr. Query begged of her to explain herself. "Oh, I sha'n't say anything," exclaimed Mrs. Mason; "I've no ill will against Dr. Harvey, and I'd rather cut off my right hand than injure him." "But is the report true?" "True, Mr. Query? Do you suppose I ever saw Dr. Harvey drunk?
It is only turned on for company." "Why, Mr. Mason, I didn't think you looked on me as company. I thought I enjoyed the friendship of the Mason family." "Oh, you do, you do indeed! The company I referred to was the official party which has just gone to the falls. This is some of the brilliancy left over. But, really, you had better stay after coming all this distance." "Yes, do, Eva.
"I can only swear," said Beetle, "that King cursed like a bargee. Simply disgustin'. I'm goin' to write to my father about it." "Better report it to Mason," suggested Stalky. "He knows our tender consciences. Hold on a shake. I've got to tie my boot-lace." The other study hurried forward. They did not wish to be dragged into stage asides of this nature.
Of these the Bwe are also known as the Hill-Karens and seem to have preserved their own culture more completely than the others, though the Sgan are said to be the purest in blood, the lightest in colour, and more distinctive in type than any other of the tribes of south-eastern Asia . Of the Hill-Karens, Mason said, "Some would be pronounced European.
They recognized each other. The whiskey sneak rose in trepidation. But William said calmly, "Sit down." "Well," he continued with a laugh, "I hear you got ahead of the Widdy." "Yeh." "Well, she can afford it," said Bill. "She's getting rich." Mason breathed more freely. "I should think ye'd carry a revolver in such a business," said William, inquiringly. "Bet I do," said Mason.
In 1770 the merchants of Philadelphia drew up an agreement in which they pledged themselves to practise non-importation of British goods sent to America. Washington's wise neighbor and friend, George Mason, drafted a plan of association of similar purport to be laid before the Virginia Burgesses.
I am going out to Three Rivers to-day anyhow." "No chance of overtaking the ladies?" asked Trenton. "I don't think so. We may overtake Mrs. Mason but I imagine Miss Sommerton will be either at Quebec or Montreal before we reach Three Rivers. I don't know in which direction she is going. You seem to be somewhat interested in that young lady. Purely artistic admiration, I presume.
"I think so," said Jasper, with a laugh; feeling surprisingly light-hearted, it was so beautiful to be talking it all over with Polly, "but the trouble is, Mason don't. Well, and then came that dreadful misunderstanding about Mr. Marlowe; that hurt me worse than all. O, Polly! if you only knew the man," and Jasper relapsed into gloom once more.
Mason Brothers, of New York; after which it came into my hands again. I also wrote a pamphlet of 48 pages on "Marriage and its Violations," which, for a time, was bound separately, but afterward was bound with the "Avoidable Causes of Disease."
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