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Furlong drew from his pocket and arranged the bundle of minutes of the meeting which he had brought with him. As he himself said he was too neat and methodical a writer to trust to jotting them down on the spot. "Don't you think," said Mr. Newberry, "I speak as a practical man, that we ought to do something to get the newspapers with us?" "Most important," assented several members.
Then one stopped in the confectioner's on Newberry Street and had a cup of hot coffee or tea if it was a cold day; or strolled down Cornhill to see what new books had come over from London, for the Waverley novels had just begun, and everybody was wondering about the author. Or you went to Faneuil Hall to see Trumbull's Declaration of Independence, which was considered a very remarkable work.
Newberry? said the man who had come out, whose voice Stockdale recognized as that of one of the most devout members of his congregation. 'It is, said Lizzy. 'I be quite ready I've been here this quarter-hour. 'Ah, John, said she, 'I have bad news; there is danger to-night for our venture. 'And d'ye tell o't! I dreamed there might be.
Newberry was connected, spent nearly a year in exploring the country bordering the Colorado, adding much to our knowledge of our western possessions, and giving, in their report, an interesting and graphic description of, perhaps, the most remarkable portion of the earth's surface. Half of the report of the Colorado Expedition was prepared by Dr.
But, being a politician he merely said, "Good evening, gentlemen," without a sign of disturbance. "Good evening, Mr. Mayor," said Mr. Newberry, rubbing his hands feebly together and speaking in an ingratiating tone. There is no more pitiable spectacle than an honest man caught in the act of speaking boldly and fearlessly of the evil-doer. "Good evening, Mr. Mayor," echoed Mr.
For the Little Girl in Green, whose Christian name was Norah, was only what is called a poor relation of Mrs. Newberry, and her father was a person of no account whatever, who didn't belong to the Mausoleum Club or to any other club, and who lived, with Norah, on a street that nobody who was anybody lived upon.
Abbie saw them when they turned in at her gate Pastor Lucus Lorina Inman, Antha Ewell, and Aunt Alphie Newberry. Abbie walked to the center of the parlor and stood there, her hands clenched, her face set. The door-bell rang; for a moment her body swayed. Then she went into the bay window and drew the blinds aside. Antha Ewell saw her and jerked Pastor Lucus's arm.
Newberry would marry you, secret and all, and would be good to the child. Forget me, John, and take care of yourself. Your friend has found you out through me he may have told a dozen people. You think he will be silent; I thought he loved me, and he left me without a word, and with a look that told me how he hated and despised me. I would not have believed it even of a white man."
On this early period the documents in Hudson's Bay House, London, must always be the prime authority. There is also a great mass of unpublished material bearing on the adventurers in the Public Record Office, London. Transcripts of a few of these documents are to be found in the Canadian Archives, Ottawa, and in the Newberry Library, Chicago.
"A bum city solicitor," said Mr. Overend, "and an infernal grafter for treasurer." "Yes," assented Mr. Newberry, and then, leaning forwards in his chair and looking carefully about the corridors of the club, he spoke behind his hand and said, "And the mayor's the biggest grafter of the lot.
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