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Peyton began to pay visits at my opposite neighbor's, and of him I inquired concerning the little old man's condition, and learned to my surprise and sorrow that his health and strength were rapidly failing, and his life surely and irrecoverably ebbing away. It might be many long months, Dr.
In his famous talk with Daniel Webster and the Ticknors at Monticello, in 1824, Jefferson said: "There were four examiners, Wythe, Pendleton, Peyton Randolph, and John Randolph.
"And Tom and Peyton Kendrick. I'll ask them to come and see her right away." "Don't! Wait a bit, Mrs. Matilda," exclaimed David. "Hob saw a mysterious girl in an orchid hat out in the park day before yesterday. He says his heart creaked with expansion at just the glimpse of a chin he got from under her veil. Suppose she's the girl. Let him have first innings."
Peyton had looked with a stolid indifference at the dangerously fascinating, the incomprehensible, smile of Cytherea. Yes, if the young donkey could be forced past this tempting patch of grazing, if he could only be driven a short distance farther down the highway of custom, Claire would be safe.
They would not be able to get home for some hours, she feared. "Could you, Mr. Oliver, just slip down to the kitchen and make poor Mr. Peyton a cup of tea and some toast? It is so bad for him to wait so late for his dinner. You will find the tea in the right-hand cupboard and the butter " The unsatisfactory connection cut her off, leaving Oliver standing aghast at her suggestion.
"He has a good nose," said my Aunt Gainor, perhaps conscious of her own possessions in the way of a nasal organ, and liking to see it as notable in another; "but how sedate he is! I find Mr. Peyton Randolph more agreeable, and there is Mr. Robert Morris and John Dickinson."
It is to visit the grave of the soldier of the Lost Cause and lay their wreaths upon the turf which covers his gallant breast. The old padre sits on the porch of his house at Lagunitas. He waits only for the last solemn act. Henry Peyton is to follow the travellers East, and remove the soldier of the gray to the little chapel grounds of Lagunitas.
Peyton's someone she can practice on, too, and no harm done. He's case hardened." "Really," says Vee, lookin' him over. "Admits it himself," says I. "Oh, well, then!" says Vee, with one of her quizzin' smiles. And at first it looked like Peyton was about to qualify as an all-'round exempt. He barely seemed to see Lucy Lee.
So as I tows Peyton out to the house that afternoon I kind of hands it to myself that I've filled Vee's order. And there standing on the front veranda admirin' the lilacs is Lucy Lee in one of her plain little frocks a pink and white check lookin' as fresh and dainty and inexpensive as a prize exhibit from an orphan asylum. I whispers to Vee on the side: "Well, you see I got him.
Even beneath its coating of dust and foam and the half-displaced saddle blanket, Clarence immediately recognized the spirited pinto mustang which Peyton had ridden that morning. "What's the matter?" said Clarence, from the gateway. The men fell apart, glancing at each other. One said quickly in Spanish: "Say nothing to HIM. It is an affair of the house."
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