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"Can you and I, alone, reach his camp?" asked the Hon. Morison. "Yes, Bwana," assured the black. Baynes turned toward the head-man. He was conversant with "Hanson's" plans now.
But Boswell, 'scarce by North Britons now esteemed a Scot, writes with an ease that renders his style his own. 'The fact is, says Mr Cotter Morison, 'that no dramatist or novelist of the whole century surpassed or even equalled Boswell in rounded and clear and picturesque presentation, or in real dramatic faculty.
Morison I thought you had been trying some experiment, but I didn't say where. Nobody knows where I found you." "Good little girl!" he said, closing his eyes again and smiling contentedly. The thought that his den might have been discovered had been worrying the doctor.
He was interrupted by the arrival of his breakfast, and after that had been disposed of he received a visit from Mrs. Morison. She was a fine old lady with snowy hair, her sweet face wrinkled into a relief-map of the journey of life, her eyes as bright and sparkling as those of her granddaughter.
Emerson's connection, 13, 26; precursor of North American Review, 28, 29; character, 30, 31; Quincy's tribute, 31; Society formed, 32; career, 33; compared with The Dial, 160. Moody Family, of York, Me., 8,10. Morals, in Plutarch, 301. Morison, John Hopkins, on Emerson's preaching, 67. Mormons, 264, 268. Mother-wit, a favorite expression, 404, 405. Motley, John Lothrop, 33, 223.
Morison could sleep at all in the midst of the savage jungle was sufficient indication that he had changed considerably in the past twenty-four hours, and that he could lie close beside a none-too-fragrant black man spoke of possibilities for democracy within him yet all undreamed of.
Staggchase glanced up with a smile. "Just now," she remarked, "before you are plunged in the study of the law, you may do escort duty for me. I am going to call on Berenice Morison." "On Miss Morison?" "Yes. Her grandmother is staying with her. Mr. Frostwinch has gone abroad, you know, and as the old house belongs to Bee, she is staying on there." "But but she won't care to see me."
And so he easily maintained the reputation of being a most democratic and likeable fellow, and indeed he was likable. Just a shade of his egotism was occasionally apparent never sufficient to become a burden to his associates. And this, briefly, was the Hon. Morison Baynes of luxurious European civilization. What would be the Hon. Morison Baynes of central Africa it were difficult to guess.
He was unable to answer her, but sat staring with hot eyes into her face, feeling its beauty like a pain. "It has been very cold for the season during the past week," she went on. "Miss Morison," he retorted hotly, "I had no right to say that, but you needn't insult me. It is cruel enough as it is." Her face softened a little, but she ignored his words.
"I had thought that it was mine to decide what you could and should do." "But, Father, this is so extraordinary, so impossible, so" "Miss Morison is to be in Boston in a couple of days. Mrs. Wilson will let us know when she arrives. I know how strange this looks to you, and how repugnant it must be. Do you think that it is any less hateful to me?