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While Suzanna didn't move from her place, she wanted to stay at some distance that she might look her soul's full at her mother her mother! At length she spoke: "Mother I want to be your little girl again. Will you take me back?" Would she take her back? Mrs. Procter's arms opened wide. Into them Suzanna flew. Mrs. Reynolds regarded the cold poached egg, the second one spoiled that morning.
Is it Jones, or Smith, or ? Alas! I get short-sighted on this point, and cannot penetrate the impenetrable dark. Make my remembrances acceptable to Longfellow, to Lowell, to Emerson, and to any one else who remembers me. "Yours, ever sincerely, And here are a few paragraphs from the last letter I ever received in Procter's loving hand:
Procter's gun from him, and even got him down, when he defended himself with his heels, until Mr. Scudamore, who was a little in advance, fired on his assailants, when they gave back; but an arrow aimed at him penetrated the stock of his gun so deeply that the head remained embedded in it.
In truth the entire table awaited breathlessly Mrs. Procter's answer. It came at last: "Very well, Princess, you may have your tucked-in day." There followed a short silence. At last: "Mother, I must be honest with you," said Suzanna, "there are to be two tucked-in days. In my next space I want to be an Only Child." Again her mother agreed.
It was at Procter's table I heard Dickens describe a scene which transpired after the publication of the "Old Curiosity Shop." It seems that the first idea of Little Nell occurred to Dickens when he was on a birthday visit to Landor, then living in Bath. The old man was residing in lodgings in St. James Square, in that city, and ever after connected Little Nell with that particular spot.
"I'd be interested in seeing your invention," he said, and stopped. Yet there was promise, too, in his voice, in his eyes. Again the color rushed to Mr. Procter's face. He stared unbelievingly at the other, and then said: "I'll be glad any time to show my machine; to tell you all about it " He hesitated. "There'd be a great chance for you, should you become interested in it."
Maizie was shaking napkins, while Peter was in a corner pretending to play ball with the baby, very much to the baby's amusement. Mr. Procter told his news triumphantly. "At last," he cried. "Jane, John Massey is absolutely coming to see the machine this afternoon." The color flashed up into Mrs. Procter's face. "Oh, Richard," she cried; "perhaps " but she did not finish her conjecture.
These visits were afterwards, at her urgent request, continued to Mr. Procter's widow. Pornic 'James Lee's Wife' Meeting at Mr. The most constant contributions to Mr. Browning's history are supplied during the next eight or nine years by extracts from his letters to Miss Blagden.
It soon, however, returned to the Rapids, and there Fort Meigs was built, which in the sequel proved sufficient to hold the position against Procter's attack. The army of the Northwest from that time remained purely on the defensive until the following September, when Perry's victory, assuring the control of the lake, enabled it to march secure of its communications.
"How d' do. I've had a look at Procter's invention." "Ah, yes, I supposed so," said David. Then: "Isn't the thought back of that machine wonderful?" Which ridiculous question quickened again all the Eagle Man's combativeness. He spoke with a fine candor. "The thought may be wonderful, young man. I'll not pass on that. But plainly I can't see where the commercial value of the machine comes in."
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