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As the time of the election was drawing near, the Sons of Liberty expressed a wish to have a man at their head, in the place of Wilkinson, who would command respect, and whose appearance of dignity and years would impress new comers most favorably. This man was found in Obadiah Jackson, Jr.

Now his diffidence was to be rewarded by his seeing this woman, whose beauty was to his eyes perfect, whose wealth was such as to have deterred him from thinking of her, whose widowhood would have silenced him had he not been so deterred, by his seeing her become the prey of Obadiah Slope! On the morning of Mrs. Bold's departure he got on his horse to ride over to St. Ewold's.

I'm up here hunting for a man named Obadiah Price. Do you know " Nathaniel interrupted him excitedly. "What do you want with Obadiah Price?" "The president of the United States wants him. That's all I know. Where is he?" "Back there dead or very badly wounded! We've just had a fight with the king's men " The lieutenant broke in with a sharp command to his men. "Quick, lead us to him. Captain Plum!

Passepartout was getting nervous, for the hands on the face of the big clock over the judge seemed to go around with terrible rapidity. "The first case," repeated Judge Obadiah. "Phileas Fogg?" demanded Oysterpuff. "I am here," replied Mr. Fogg. "Passepartout?" "Present," responded Passepartout. "Good," said the judge. "You have been looked for, prisoners, for two days on the trains from Bombay."

But before I begin my demonstration, let me only tell you, that the chapter which I have torn out, and which otherwise you would all have been reading just now, instead of this was the description of my father's, my uncle Toby's, Trim's, and Obadiah's setting out and journeying to the visitation at.... We'll go in the coach, said my father Prithee, have the arms been altered, Obadiah?

Hawkins and her daughter Mandy." "Speakin' o' Mandy, you know she's got two little boys twins, one named after Deacon Mason, and t'other after your husband's friend Obadiah Strout, ther perfesser and she's got a little girl, nigh on ter two years old named Marthy after me but they don't call her Marthy it's allus Mattie. These new-fangled names fuss me all up.

"So easy that I tell you again I am ashamed of you for not having thought of it!" cried Nathaniel. "The first thing is to get safely aboard my ship." "We can do that within an hour." "And to-night where will we find Marion?" "At home," said Neil. "We live near Obadiah. You must have seen the house as you came out into the clearing this morning from the forest."

"Getting down to cases," said the Kid, "you're laying for Weaver and Murphy, ain't you?" "I ain't said so in that many words," was the cautious response. "You ain't going to let 'em kill a good colt for you and get away with it, are you? Weaver was only in that race to take care of Obadiah. Eagle's gang was down hook, line, and sinker on Whitethorn, and they cleaned up.

As he followed in silence up out of the gloom of the town he strove, but in vain, to find whether sin had lurked in the sweet face that had appealed to him in its misery whether there had been a flash of something besides terror, besides prayerful entreaty, in the lovely eyes that had met his own. Obadiah spoke no word to break in on his thoughts.

A large oil lamp, the light of which he had seen in the window, was burning on a table in the big room but the voice came from the little closet into which Obadiah had taken him the preceding night. For several minutes he crouched and listened. He heard the chuckling laugh of the old councilor and then an incoherent raving that set his blood tingling.