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"It was my only hope," she murmured. "With that money in my hand some, any of it, I could have dared his frown and won in a little while his good will, but now I can only anticipate rebuff. There is nothing for me to hope for now. I must continue to be Bess, the thread and needle woman." "I did not say that the one to reinstate you was Miss Quinlan." "Who then? who then?" "Mayor Packard."
That's what they call a false ford " "Well, the next time I hope there'll be a Maxwell or a Packard there instead," Barnard said in his funny way. "A false ford is a shadow across a hollow place," Tom said. "You see them mostly in the moonlight. Don't you remember how lots of fellows were fooled like that, trying to cross trenches.
He had graduated at Bowdoin College the year before, and the verses had been written and printed in the Gazette while he was still a student. The glimpses of the boy that we catch through the recollections of his old professor, Packard, and of his college mates, are of the same character as at every period of his life.
Although Packard knew this very well without being told and had known it a good many years before Guy Little had been born, and although Guy Little had repeated the phrase time without number, the old man accepted it peacefully as a necessary though utterly damnable introduction. "It's like this," continued the mechanician.
Upon the top of this supine woodland monarch Terry was accustomed to sit, her back against one of the big limbs, her heels kicking at the mossy sides, while she glanced back and forth from Temple property to Packard land and told herself how much finer was her side than the other.
Now they edged in and asked Bresnahan what he thought about the Packard car, investments in Texas oil-wells, the comparative merits of young men born in Minnesota and in Massachusetts, the question of prohibition, the future cost of motor tires, and wasn't it true that American aviators put it all over these Frenchmen? They were glad to find that he agreed with them on every point.
"Look here, you Joe Woods!" he cried out. "And listen, too, you Blenham! I'm no trouble-seeker; I know it's a dead easy thing to start a row that will see more than one man dead before it's ended, and what's the use? But I mean to have what is mine in spite of you and Hell-Fire Packard and the devil!
Packard, the Republican candidate for governor, had received as many votes as Hayes, and logic seemed to require that, if Hayes be President, Packard should be governor. While the question was pending, Blaine said in the Senate: "You discredit Packard, and you discredit Hayes. You hold that Packard is not the legal governor of Louisiana, and President Hayes has no title."
"I don't understand." "I mean," shouted Packard senior, his voice shaking with emotion, "that no mouth in the world is big enough to hold them two words the same night! If you want to chum with any Temple livin', he-Temple or she-Temple, if, sir, you intend to go 'round slobberin' over the low-down enemies of your own father an' father's father, why, sir, then I'm Mr.
"You stay here, Terry. "Will I?" Terry retorted with animation. "Not on your life, Steve Packard! If this is the beginning of Blenham's finish Well, I'm in on it." Terry had sensed something of the truth. In its way here was the beginning of the end of many things.
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