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It is wonderful how far seventy-five dollars will go in an economical family of plain tastes. It was soon apparent to the neighbors that the Nelsons were exhibiting signs of prosperity. "It must be Tom," they decided. Efforts were made to ascertain just how much our hero had sent home; but on this point the Nelsons would not speak definitely. They reported in general terms that Tom was doing well.
The Lord Nelsons of the sea, though but Barons in the state, yet oftentimes prove more potent than their royal masters; and at such scenes as Trafalgar dethroning this Emperor and reinstating that enact on the ocean the proud part of mighty Richard Neville, the king-making Earl of the land.
Of course, a big well, something to create a furor that was what he needed, for that not only would bridge his financial crisis, but also it would mean a frenzy of quick drilling, new wells crowded close together, hundreds of thousands of dollars poured into the earth, and the Nelsons couldn't stand that. It would break them break them, and he would taste the full sweetness of revenge.
Only observe how Troubridge supported us. By God, Mr Simple, he was the real fellow, and Nelson knew it well. He was Nelson's right-hand man; but you know there wasn't room for two Nelsons. Their ships engaged held out well, it must be acknowledged, but why wer'n't they all in their proper berths?
It expires to-morrow night and it will go to the Nelsons. They've double-crossed Mr. Briskow." "Then don't let them get away with it. Take it yourself." "It is now three o'clock and this is the golfing season in New York," Gray told him. "I couldn't reach my associates and get any action before Monday." "No funds of your own available?" "Not enough, at such short notice." "Well?"
But Miss Rufe she ain't like none ob dem Nelsons; she favors her maw. She's quality inside an' out." A peal of the bell cut short further interesting revelations. Aunt Melvy hurried through the hall, leaving doors open behind her. At the front door she paused in dismay. Before her stood the Nelsons in calling attire, presenting two immaculate cards for her acceptance.
It was a quaint old house, all over honeysuckles and bow-windows and verandas, approached by an oleander-bordered walk, and sheltered by a wide circle of poplar-and oak-trees that had nodded both approval and disapproval over many generations of Nelsons. In the dining-room, on the massive mahogany table, lunch was laid for three.
And she announced Bentley's engagement. "They will be married in the early fall; they are not going to build, but have part of that double house of Nelsons'. She'll make a fine, economical wife, and that is what men need who are trying to get along. Assemblies and all that are not the thing for prudent married people." "And one gets tired of them."
Hollis, snapping her scissors sharply. "He surely wouldn't be fool enough to think she would look at him. Why, the Nelsons think they are the only aristocratic people that ever lived in Clayton. If they had paid less attention to their ancestors and more to their descendants, they might have had a better showing."
Nothing could then prevent the enemy from gaining the source of the Mississippi, gradually extending themselves by the Red river to Lake Winnipic, from whense the descent of Nelsons river to York Fort would in time be easy." The British traders, voyageurs and Indians dislodged the Americans, and at the close of the war England was practically in possession of the Indian country of the Northwest.
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