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He would not have minded if he had been held as a prisoner for a few days; it would have made him feel that he had really done something to prove his loyalty to the American cause. But Mrs. Merrill was very glad to have her tall son safely beside her, although she was inclined to agree with him that the gay young English officers took their duties too lightly.
His coming had been a curious coincidence, possibly a consequence of obscure causes; but, for some reason or other, he felt himself beginning to look with a more favourable eye on Commander Mark Merrill perhaps because he was the impersonation of uncompromising hostility to everything that Oscarovitch represented.
"Claude Merrill is not dishonorable," Rose exclaimed impetuously; "or at least he isn't as bad as you think: he has never asked me to marry him." "Then he probably was not quite ready to speak, or perhaps you were not quite ready to hear," retorted Stephen, bitterly; "but don't let us have words, there'll be enough to regret without adding those.
She paused a moment as the parties acknowledged the curious introduction, and then broke in rather breathlessly: "There, Doctor, I shall leave you with royalty; do not let your republican ignorance forget her proper title. Mr. Arnold, Mrs. Merrill is beckoning to us; will you come?" and with a naive, superbly impish look at Ruth, she drew Arnold away before he could murmur an excuse.
But he did not sit down just yet, because Cynthia remained standing. "I'm here now," he said, "what's the good of going away? I might as well stay the rest of the afternoon." "You will find a photograph album on the table," said Cynthia, "with pictures of all the Merrill family and their friends and relations." In spite of the threat this remark conveyed, he could not help laughing at it. Mrs.
Not until the first half of the game had been played did it dawn fully upon the freshmen that they were being subjected to an interference as unfair as any bodily move to hamper would have been. Further, the three girls were doing it very cleverly. It was not hampering their playing in the least. Ruth Hale and Nina Merrill were playing with honest vim and in silence.
The astronomers tell about him." Nobody answered his question. But it seemed suddenly to bring them back to the normal. "See here, boys," Frank Merrill said, an unexpected note of authority in his voice, "we can't sit here all the morning like this. We ought to rig up a signal, in case any ship . Moreover, we've got to get together and save as much as we can. We'll be hungry in a little while.
In the party were 83 individuals, the family heads being Jones, Philemon C. Merrill, Dudley J. Merrill, Thomas Merrill, Adelbert Merrill, Henry C. Rogers, George Steele, Thomas Biggs, Ross R. Rogers, John D. Brady, Joseph McRae, Isaac Turley and Austin O. Williams. Start was made January 17, 1877. The way was through Beaver Dams to the mouth of the Virgin.
In the able address read by Bishop Merrill, containing the views of the Board of Bishops, he says: "For the first time in our history several 'elect ladies' appear, regularly certified from Electoral Conferences, as lay delegates to this body.
"Right here they are," cried Mary Jane and she and Doris climbed into the car in a jiffy. "What were you people doing there on the sidewalk?" asked father as they drove around the corner. "Helping ants store sugar in their holes but they didn't like it," said Mary Jane disgustedly. "I don't blame them," laughed Mr. Merrill.
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