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A crowd collected in the store as soon as the shutters were down; there was a knot of men before the lawyer's office waiting for him to come; and several hot-headed young fellows pressed into the stable and urged upon Silas Beers that he should keep the old white racer in readiness for an emergency that day, and also several others which, if not as fleet, had good staying powers.
Every mortal thing's gone wrong from start to finish. Don't ask me about it, for it don't bear speaking of. My head aches fit to split, and now Silas has taken the huff and marched off goodness knows where, and there's a man sitting down in the hall refusing to go away until he gets his money, and disgracing me before the whole hotel. It's for those furs I had sent in the other day.
One day, at a big dinner, he announced casually that the Directors had shifted on to him a Natural Curiosity, from England, in the Accountant line. He was perfectly correct. Mr. Silas Riley, Accountant, was a MOST curious animal a long, gawky, rawboned Yorkshireman, full of the savage self-conceit that blossom's only in the best county in England.
They would have given your father a peerage to make it up, but he would not accept it, and broke with the party. Except in that way which, you know, was connected with the reputation of the family I don't think, considering his great wealth, he has done very much for Silas. To say truth, however, he was very liberal before his marriage. Old Mrs.
GRANDMOTHER: 'Why, mother. Nat Rice is a mean, stingy, complaining man his leg notwithstanding. Where'd you leave the folks? SILAS: Oh scattered around. Everybody visitin' with anybody that'll visit with them. Wish you could have gone. GRANDMOTHER: I've heard it all. FEJEVARY: All well, Mrs Morton. And my boy Felix is home. He'll stop in here to see you by and by.
The palm of Silas Wegg descends with a sounding smack upon the palm of Venus, and Wegg lavishly exclaims, 'Twin in opinion equally with feeling! Mix a little more!
Then 'e took 'is arm in agin and lay there wondering wot was going to 'appen next. "If you ever break your oath by on'y so much as a teaspoonful," ses Silas, "you'll see me agin, and the second time you see me you'll die as if struck by lightning. No man can see me twice and live." Bill broke out in a cold perspiration all over. "You'll be careful, won't you, Silas?" he ses.
It was in such an outburst of rage that he had assaulted John in the inn yard at Wakkerstroom, and thereby put him on his guard against him, and now it mastered him once more. "Very well, Silas Croft," he said at last, "I will go; but mark this, I will come back, and when I come it shall be with men armed with rifles.
"Is this to be a Temperance Celebration, Mrs. Sprowle?" asked Mr. Silas Peckham. Mrs.
Was nominated by acclamation for governor of New York in the following September, but was defeated by Silas Wright. In 1847 was elected comptroller of the State. In 1848 was nominated by the Whigs for Vice-President on the ticket with General Taylor and was elected in the following November. He presided as Vice-President with strict impartiality during exciting debates in the Senate.
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