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Ogilvie she was in all respects the most sane as well as one of the most charming of women. 'And as for giving you dates, she said pleasantly, 'that is very easily done, for it was in the year and the month of my marriage that I first met her. 'That would be? said Mr. Semple, unlocking his clasped hands and touching his fingers together in the characteristic manner of the confidential lawyer.
"What do you want, yourself?" came Governor Semple's reply with some heat and not a little insolence. "We want our fort," demanded Boucher, slightly taken aback, but thoroughly angered. His horse was prancing restively within pistol range of the governor. "Go to your fort, then! Go to your fort!" returned Semple with stinging contempt in manner and voice.
After some friendly pressure, Semple consented to join him in a brandy-and-soda, though he continued to protest between sips that at such an hour it was an indecent practice. "It's the ruin of many a strong man," he moralized, looking rather pointedly at Thorpe over his glass. "It's the principal danger that besets the verra successful man.
The home atmosphere which they established when they returned from their honeymoon was a great improvement in taste over that which had characterized the earlier life of Mrs. Cowperwood as Mrs. Semple. They had decided to occupy her house, on North Front Street, for a while at least.
"But something went wrong wi' ye, deary?" persisted Aunt Alvirah, watching Ruth's face closely. "Oh, Auntie! why didn't you tell me that Helen gave me the frocks?" "Deary, deary, me!" ejaculated Aunt Alvirah. "How did you know?" "Julia Semple told me she told me before everybody!" gasped Ruth, fighting hard to keep back the tears. "She called me a pauper!
Semple, and I always thought you liked me as his wife. He's gone, though, now." "And you're here," he replied. "And I'm here?" "Yes. I like you. I like to be with you. Don't you like me that way?" "Why, I've never thought of it. You're so much younger. I'm five years older than you are." "In years," he said, "certainly. That's nothing. I'm fifteen years older than you are in other ways.
This personage, I afterwards learned, was the amiable Governor Semple, who succeeded Captain Miles McDonell. Already, as a hunter chases a deer, had the great governor chased Nor'-Westers from Red River. Did Little Fellow doubt their word? Where was Fort Gibraltar? Let Little Fellow look and see for himself if aught but masonry and charred walls stood where Fort Gibraltar had been!
Lieutenant Holt, a clerk in the colony's service, fell struggling upon the ground. Boucher ran in the direction of his own party, and soon there was the sound of another musket. This time Governor Semple was struck in the thigh. He called at once to his men: 'Do what you can to take care of yourselves. The band ignored this behest, and gathered round him to ascertain the extent of his injury.
Among the "respectable" convicts was one Major Semple, a notorious swindler of the time, who on this occasion behaved well, risking his life for the protection of the ship's officers from the soldiers who had been put on board to support law and order! The female convicts had been carried off by the soldiers, and when the Rev.
He smiled when he reached this conclusion greatly surprising and confusing a matronly lady into whose correct face he chanced to be looking at the instant and turning slowly, continued his walk. At the office of the hotel, he much regretted not having driven instead, for he learned that Semple had twice telephoned from the City for him.
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