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"I'll have to resort to the vulgar alternative of chloroform, I dare say," he thought. "She'll make a fight for it at the last. I can quiet her, however." And so Dr. Oleander went back to New York without one suspicion that his new nurse was playing him false. Within an hour after breakfast, the peddler presented himself next morning. Again Mrs.
Work as they might, they seldom saw anything but an order on a store, for clothes and provisions sold to them at prices that would make a Jew peddler blush for shame. The Bishop found entire families who never saw a piece of money the year round. There are families and families, and some are more shiftless than others.
If you will permit me, I will mix it for you in a stoup of hot spiced wine, and I warrant he will sleep like a dormouse all night, and wake in the morning as well as ever." Paul thanked the peddler, and the ingredients of the draught were called for.
Ole might be all right as far as that went; he bought and sold, went his peddler rounds through life, paid his bills and added dollars to his hoard. That was all. Did money really matter so much to her? God knows, perhaps even this girlish little head had its concealed nook where thoughts were figuring in crowns and pennies! Irgens was silent for an instant; he felt the pangs of jealousy.
Then the monkey who was now very angry, gave the image of wax a kick with his foot and his foot remained stuck fast in the wax. The monkey shouted, "O, peddler boy, peddler boy, let go my foot. Let go my two feet and my two hands and give me a banana or else I'll give you a push with my body." The image of wax did not let go. The monkey gave the image of wax a push with his body.
He put his cigarettes in his pocket, caught up his gloves and stick, clapped on his hat, and started for the Bessemers' flat with a feeling of joyous expectancy he had not known for days. Evidently Blix had seen him coming, for she opened the door herself; and it suited her humor for the moment to treat him as a peddler or book-agent.
Reports must be made to the commandant at Peekskill, for Colonel Singleton is withdrawn to headquarters, to preside over the inquiry upon poor Wharton. Fresh orders have been sent to hang the peddler if we can take him, but they are not from the commander in chief. Detail a small guard with the ladies, and get into the saddle as soon as possible." Yours sincerely, "PEYTON DUNWOODIE."
"But what are we going to do now?" yawned Hazy, as they sat about under the light of two lanterns. "Go to bed," declared Greg. "Hooray! That's the ticket that I vote," announced Hazy. "I was just thinking of that mean lawyer we heard about to-day," Reade remarked. "I was thinking of the same matter, but more about the poor old peddler," Dick stated. "That poor old fellow!
She looked highly displeased when the servant approached her, announcing that this person indicating Gerelda desired particularly to speak with her a few moments. "If you are a peddler or in search of work, you should go round to the servants' door," she said, brusquely. Gerelda never knew until then what a very cross mother-in-law she had escaped.
But people whispered that he did some hard and sharp work on the night after the peddler came to town the slender man with a pack filled with jewelry and knickknacks because on the morning after that visit the peddler was found, beneath an apple-tree on Rood farm, with his pack rifled and his skull split open.
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