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He took in deliberately every detail of the two men Doctor Seth Prescott, the smallest in physical stature of anybody there, yet as marked among them all as some local Napoleon, and the one whom a stranger would first have noted, and the old clergyman leaning towards him with a subtle inclination of mind as well as body; then he spoke as Jerome entered.
Doctor Prescott could have administered corporal punishment to this boy, who seemed to him to be actually poking fun at his dignity, and yet he stopped and answered: "I am going to take your house into my hands," said Doctor Prescott, "and your mother can live in it and pay me rent." "We can't pay rent any better than interest money."
"Stop that!" hissed the stranger, who was now easily uppermost, and holding Prescott with ease. "Quick!" yelled Dick. The stranger grasped the high school boy by the throat, then as swiftly changed his mind, for someone was stirring in the tent. Up leaped the prowler, yet, swift as he was, Dick was also on his feet. "Keep back!" warned the prowler, as he turned to run.
Standing up fairly, with little footwork, but displaying much more speed, Dick Prescott drove in blow after blow in such bewildering succession as to all but daze the yearling. Bang! Kramer's right eye was half closed just as Cadet Jennison called the end of the first round.
In the course of my whole life, I have never heard before so much said about the particular counsel who happen to be employed; as if it were extraordinary that other counsel than the usual officers of the government should assist in the management of a case on the part of the government. Prescott, came down in aid of the officers of the government.
The very atmosphere of the place seems charged with reminiscences of the Moors and their successful foes, and here the spirits of Prescott and Gayangos, the historians, seem to linger still. On either side of the high altar are extremely interesting painted carvings. On one is figured the delivering up of the Alhambra.
Prescott had been into the far South on a special mission from the Confederate Government in Richmond after his return from the Wilderness and complete recovery from his wound, and now he was going back through a sea of mountains, the great range that fills up so much of North Carolina and its fifty thousand square miles, and he was not sorry to find the way long.
The majority had faith in Paul, but there were some who, remembering how long Dawkins had been at the head of the class, thought he would easily regain his lost rank. The eventful day, the first of the month, at length came, and the class-list was read. Paul Prescott ranked first. George Dawkins ranked second.
As soon as coach had secured silence Dick, with a short laugh, began: "Fellows, I don't know whether you mean it all, or whether you're having a little fun with me. But " "No, no! We mean it! Prescott for captain! No other fellow has done as much for Gridley High School football!"
They talked of many things, of almost everything except the war, of the news from Europe, of the books that they had read Scott and Dickens, Thackeray and Hugo and of the music that they had heard, particularly the favourite arias of Italian opera. Mrs. Markham and Miss Harley were twin stars in this group, and Prescott could not tell which had the greater popularity. Mrs.
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