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I seen you hittin' the breeze for fair while you was quite a piece up the basin; an' I seen Deveny an' the boys a-fannin' it, too. An' I says to myself: 'Stroud, here's Deveny racin' to see Miss Barbara, an' her actin' like she don't want to see him. But I'll fix it so she does." The girl touched Billy with the quirt, and the little animal lunged forward, close to Stroud's horse.
"Ah! captain," he said. "I'm glad to see you. Have a whisky and soda? I've assigned you to duty on my staff. Report here again to-morrow at ten and have your things moved over to the palace. Major Stroud will show you your quarters, captain!" Major Stroud advanced and shook hands with Sam. He was every inch a soldier in appearance, but old enough to be a retired field-marshal.
"I'm obliged to you," he mumbled. That had ended it. The following morning Linton came to Harlan for orders, and a little later the entire outfit, headed by Stroud, and trailed by the chuck-wagon and the horses of the remuda, started southward to a distant section of the big level, leaving Linton and Harlan at the ranchhouse.
Stroud says there are seventy-one crimes in the slave States, for which negroes are punished with death, and for each and every one of these crimes the white man suffers nothing worse than imprisonment in the penitentiary. What chance has an ignorant slave before a tribunal chosen by his accuser, suddenly convoked, and consisting of but five persons?"
To show that these views were still authoritatively taught in the churches, I wrote further: "Stroud makes Christ drink 'the cup of the wrath of God. Jenkyn says 'He suffered as one disowned and reprobated and forsaken of God. Dwight considers that he endured God's 'hatred and contempt. Bishop Jeune tells us that 'after man had done his worst, worse remained for Christ to bear.
Stroud by name, had come to stay for a few days' shooting, and they certainly proved lively additions to our gathering.
Stroud in his treatise On the Physical Cause of the Death of Christ. Given in Hanna's The Last Day of our Lord's Passion. There is a hard and shallow philosophy which regards it as a matter of complete indifference what becomes of the body after the soul has left it and affects contempt of all funeral ceremonies. But the instincts of mankind are wiser.
Stroud so when she began to stammer something about her poverty. I remember getting off a prodigious phrase about the honour being mine oh, I was princely, my dear Rickham! I was posing to myself like one of my own sitters. "Then I was taken up and left alone with him. I had sent all my traps in advance, and I had only to set up the easel and get to work.
Forsyth on the other, busy with her fancy work and little table before her. At the piano, lounging about in different attitudes, were Nelly and several girl cousins, Kenneth and two other gentlemen in the background, whilst at the farther window stood Constance with Mr. Stroud.
The police of Stroud came over in the afternoon, and took up the investigation. The general opinion was that she must have been murdered, and every pond was dragged, every ditch examined, for a distance round the farm. In the meantime George Lechmere held his tongue. "It is better," he said to himself, "that her parents and friends should think her dead than know the truth."
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