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Irvin J. Morgan at his gilded height struck the inspiring chords, and a moment later the wedding procession entered, led by two white-clad pages, and moved slowly across the white gallery, Mrs. Victor C. Mather, Mrs. A. J. Drexel Biddle, Jr., Mrs. Gurnee Munn, Mrs. Oliver E. Cromwell, Miss Eleanor B. Hopkins and Mrs.
Mart resumed his position before the stove, lifting one foot into the capacious black maw of the oven. "Must 'a' got your feet wet, Brenner?" the sheriff said with heavy jocularity. Brenner nodded, "You bet I did," he replied. "Been down on the beach all afternoon." "Didn't happen to hear any unusual noise down there, did you?" Munn spoke with his eyes on Mrs.
Though I suspected, of course. "Old Gloom. He's over in the Acre." "Did you meet him there? What did he say?" "I ducked him. He never saw me. He was well, I guess he was praying," said Mr. Hines shamefacedly. "Praying? At the Munn grave?" "That's it. Groaning and saying, 'A sign, O Lord! Vouchsafe thy servant a sign! Kept saying it over and over." "For guidance to-morrow," I murmured. "Mr.
I was thinkin' on the way ever there's jist one woman in the village would make it an' never tell a soul, an' that's " Elsie nodded. "Mrs. Munn." "Yes. Harriet dressmaked for a long time before Munn died; he wasn't no more use than Davy. An' she'd make it an' never tell. An' you'd help a little, wouldn't you, an' see that she made it kind o' jist a little fashionable, Elsie?"
Her burning eyes turned toward Mart. In them was all of a heart's anguish and despair. "Tell 'em, Mart! Tell 'em he didn't do it!" she finally pleaded. Mart's face was inscrutable. Munn rose. The other men got to their feet. "Will you get the boy or shall I?" the sheriff said directly to Mrs. Brenner. With a rush Mrs.
They were returned with dignified thanks, and Silas and his wife sat and exclaimed over the strange man's obstinacy, while Davy Munn and the eldest orphan despatched the despised viands. Mrs. Long told her story the next afternoon at Miss McQuarry's, where the village mothers had met to make a quilt for the Sawyer twins' bed.
Rab Tosh o' Fleckie's wife was heavy-footed at the time, and Doctor Munn had been a' nicht wi' her, and when he cam to Barbie Water in the morning it was roaring wide frae bank to brae; where the brig should have been there was naething but the swashing of the yellow waves.
Munn also gives the annual importation of the principal Indian goods into England, by the East India Company, and the price each article sold for in England; according to this table, the quantity of pepper was 250,000 lbs., which, bought in India for twopence halfpenny, sold in England for one shilling and eightpence: 150,000 lbs. of cloves, which bought in India for ninepence, sold in England for six shillings: 150,000 lbs. of nutmegs, bought for four-pence, sold for two shillings and sixpence: 50,000 lbs. of mace, bought for eightpence, sold for six shillings: 200,000 lbs. of indigo, bought for one shilling and twopence, sold for five shillings: 107,140 lbs. of China raw silk, bought for seven shillings, sold for twenty shillings: and 50,000 pieces of calico, bought for seven shillings a piece, sold for twenty-six shillings.
"How about those clay tracks, Mrs. Brenner? There is red clay on the hill where the man was killed. There is red clay on your floor." Munn spoke kindly. "Mart tracked in that clay. He changed shoes with Tobey. I tell you that's the truth." She was past caring for any harm that might befall her. Brenner smiled with a wide tolerance.
As the doctor was to be best man, and Elsie Cameron bridesmaid, and since the groom was rich, the Winters would have preferred to ask only the more genteel folks of the neighborhood the minister's family, and a few of their Glenoro relatives. But Martin spoiled it all by asking John McIntyre and Davy Munn and the eldest orphan.
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