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The rest of the company followed, and were ushered into their places to the accompaniment of Ellen's shrieks, which they pretended not to hear. "Mr. Pratt, will you take the end of the table?" said Joanna to the scared little clergyman, who would almost have preferred to sit under it rather than receive the honour which Miss Godden's respect for his cloth dictated. "Mr.
Ole Bull, whom I very much wished to hear again, was to play the next evening; and Parley Pratt, a friend whom I had not met for a great length of time, and whom I did wish to see, was to be in town the next day. There were many other things to keep me, but none of them had the least effect. I could no more keep myself there than a man could sink himself in the Dead Sea, and so I had to come home.
He would be a fool if he did not take it, and use it to his own best and lasting advantage. And so he locked up the will in a safe place, and went to bed, resolved to take a bold step towards fortune on the morrow. When Pratt arrived at Eldrick & Pascoe's office at his usual hour of nine next morning, he found the senior partner already there.
Will your Ladyship credit me when I tell you the poor girl had had good reason all along to suspect Mrs Pratt might have a hand in the thievery, but would not speak as knowing nothing for certain, and sparing to trouble me with the understanding she surprised between Pratt and my young gentleman.
"Of course Jane's too absurd!" she said. "I don't mean that she 'made it up'; she never does that, and no doubt this little Miss Pratt did say about what Jane thought she said. But it all amounts to nothing." "Of course!" "Willie's just going through what several of the other boys about his age are going through like Johnnie Watson and Joe Bullitt and Wallace Banks.
Pratt has the reputation of entertaining sensational characters, and it will be a miracle if you are not exploited to the press." Her face clouded again. "Oh, I am so tired of having people look at me and shrug and whisper. I am so tired of having this abnormal thing reflected in the eyes of all my visitors. I wish I could become commonplace without the slightest thing queer about me.
He offered to work all the rest of the time in return for his food and clothing. To-day he holds a Pratt certificate, is head of our machine shop, has a sheet-metal working factory of his own which fills a most valuable purpose on the shore, is general consultant for the coast in matters of engineering, as well as being the Government surveyor for his district.
The fire was miles away, it was true; but its ominous appearance affrighted even Pratt Sanderson, who knew so little about such peril. Mack was fastening straps and hooking up traces; they had not dared leave the mules hitched to the wagon while they were engaged in its repair. "Come on! get a hustle on you, Mister!" exclaimed the teamster. "We got to light out o' here right sudden!"
I knew you folks lived out this way somewhere, but I've not seen you since you were a little shaver. "But I'll never forget how my little half-sister used to look, and you are just like her when she was young," declared Mr. Lonergan. "Come in here, you young rascal, and let me get a closer look at you." "My Uncle Jonas?" gasped Pratt, in amazement. "That's what I am!" declared Mr. Lonergan.
The patient was beginning to go into an attack at the time but pulled himself together, managed the funeral three days later, got his sister home, who had a hysterical attack at the grave, and then proceeded to indulge in his postponed attack. The sister was unable to care for him so he was sent again to the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital. In a few days he recovered.
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