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Phrases take the place of deeds, sentiments those of facts, and grimaces those of benevolent looks, so ingeniously and so impudently, that the wronged often fancy that they are the victims of a severe dispensation of Providence, when the truth would have shown that they were simply robbed. We do not mean, however, that Deacon Pratt was a robber.
Don't you recognize Jud Harkness driving the first team there?" "Hello, folks!" bellowed Jud, from his seat. "How be you, Mis' Pratt? Think we'd clean forgot you? We didn't know you was in such an all-fired lot of trouble, or we'd ha' been here before. We're come now, though, and we ain't goin' away till you've got a new house. Brought it with us, by heck!"
"And I came here to know what you've got to say for yourself. Say it!" Pratt moved his chair a little nearer to his visitor. "Now," he said, speaking very quietly and deliberately, "I'll go through what I have to say to you carefully, point by point. I shall ask you to go back a little way. It is now some time since I discovered a secret about your mother, Mrs. Mallathorpe.
She recovered, only to learn, that extensive speculations, whose prospect of certain success had induced Colonel Pratt to invest very nearly the whole of his fortune, had proved an utter failure, and that she and her children were destitute. Here was something which called forth all her energies, and for her children's sake she nerved herself to action.
Hundreds of men were busy making fence rails and fences, building houses, digging wells, clearing land, and plowing. Meetings were held often and the people were instructed and encouraged. Parley P. Pratt and a small company were sent ahead to find another location for a settlement. They found a beautiful place about thirty miles from Garden Grove, which they called Mount Pisgah.
I urged him to come. That lion really scratched him " "Yes. It doesn't look reasonable, I allow," admitted her father; but she could see he was not convinced of the honesty of Pratt Sanderson. There was a difference of opinion between Frances and Captain Rugley. The remainder of the night passed in quietness.
"Well, professor," said the miner, when they were alone, "we made the break and won out. I reckon they're side-tracked now." "Yes, and I hope we are done with both Pratt and Clarke; but they'll both bear watching. Pratt I especially fear." "He's had his notice," Lambert grimly replied. "As for Clarke, it looks as though even Julia had got enough of him.
"And so you're going to be married?" said Pratt, when the waiter had carried away the cheese. "Who told you that?" "Well, but you are? Never mind who told me, if I was told the truth." "But if it be not true?" "I have heard it for the last month," said Pratt, "and it has been spoken of as a thing certain; and it is true; is it not?" "I believe it is," said Crosbie, slowly.
With sentiments of high consideration and esteem, we subscribe ourselves your brethren in the New and Everlasting Covenant, BRIGHAM YOUNG, PARLEY P. PRATT, JOHN TAYLOR. From this book by no means explanatory to myself of the New and Everlasting Covenant, and not at all making my heart an understanding one on the subject of that mystery a hymn was sung, which did not attract any great amount of attention, and was supported by a rather select circle.
It was then late in the afternoon, and no one but Pratt was there Pratt, indeed, had been waiting until Collingwood called. "Going back to town, Mr. Collingwood?" asked Pratt as he handed over a big envelope. "When shall we have the pleasure of seeing you again, sir?" Something in the clerk's tone made Collingwood think he could not tell why that Pratt was fishing for information.
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