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She stood entreatingly till he turned and went on with her. "He is evidently aching for another thrashing," he said grimly, as he stalked beside her. And presently they were in the cutting, and the unnerving vastness of the gulfs opened out on either side. Gard felt like a blindfolded man stumbling along a plank. He involuntarily put out a groping hand and took hold of her cloak.
"And I am to sit here; and bear not only their weight but their blame, and be called stupid and be told to keep steady, when it is they who are giddy and can't be depended upon; and to be contented, while they do nothing but play pranks and enjoy themselves," said he; but he said it to himself, for he did not know which to complain to the children or the plank.
George could make up his mind to go on shore, the exchange of passengers was effected, and the plank was pulled in, the ropes were cast off, and the steamer once more began to move swiftly along over the water. "It is too late," said Rollo. "Yes," said Mr. George, "and on the whole it is better for us to go on." In about an hour more the steamer began to draw near to Rotterdam.
On the 5th Ewell had a smart engagement on the turn-pike, while Heath's and Wilcox's Divisions, of Hill's Corps, had met successfully a heavy force under Hancock, on the plank road two roads running parallel and about one mile distant. Both armies closed the battle at night fall, each holding his own field.
They concentrated on his face, hoping to get some indication of what to expect; but he never permitted his face to betray his mind. He strode up the plank and joined them. "Tempest come?" he asked. "Tempest!" cried Mabel. "Haven't I told you he's jumped? Don't you suppose I know him?" "And you brought him into the company," raged Violet. "Burlingham didn't want to take him.
"The same idea has struck me since we sailed. The trouble is that until I've decided about the pulp mill he'll have to go unwatched for the same reason that prevented you from holding up for me and steaming the plank." "If any unforeseen action of Horsfield's made it necessary, you could let this pulp project drop." "You ought to understand why that's impossible.
In 1785, Captain James Ward descended the river, under circumstances, which rendered a meeting with the Indians peculiarly to be dreaded. The captain with half a dozen others, one of them his nephew, embarked in a crazy boat, about forty-five long, and eight feet wide, with no other bulwark than a single pine plank, above each gunnel.
The plank was steep, and I was forced off my feet. Whenever I'm followed too closely, I lose my head it's a weakness I have." The man ceased cursing to dart a sharp glance at him, but he was still too unmanned by his cold immersion to do more than chatter angrily. In the hubbub Emerson led his companion out into the street, where she beheld him shaking with suppressed laughter.
A moment afterward the children saw him going down the plank to the pier. As soon as he reached the pier he forced his way through the crowd to the other side of it, where the carriage was standing. The children watched him all the time. When he reached the carriage, they saw that he stopped a moment to say a few words to the driver, and then hastily got into the carriage.
The doctrine of free silver had been making converts among the Democrats, however, and early in 1896 it was clear that a majority of the Southern delegates to the national convention would favor a silver plank. The action of the convention in nominating Bryan and Sewall is told in another volume.
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