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On the 20th of May, Lieutenant Bennett returned to Columbia with the right section, and immediately proceeded to Kalioke Station, six miles from Columbia, and on the railroad. On the 21st inst., the left section, under Lieutenant Sypher, returned, and went into camp at the old place. The night of June 2d, had another alarm, caused by the firing of our pickets.
But one can't serve God and Mammon." Septimus rose and took his hat. "I think it awfully wonderful of you," he said. "I really do. I should like to talk to you about it but I must go and see Emmy. She came last night." Sypher inquired politely after her health, also that of her baby. "He's taking such a deuce of a time to grow up," said Septimus. "Otherwise he's well. He's got a tooth.
Now that Zora had settled Wiggleswick, arranged her plan of campaign against Emmy, and established very agreeable and subtle relations between Sypher and herself, she could afford to shed all her charm and gaiety and graciousness on her subjects. She was infinitely glad to be with them again.
"You ask for my opinion," replied the professor of dermatology at the University of Geneva. "I give it you. No." Sypher threw out a hand, desperately argumentative. "But I know of a case in which it has proved efficacious. A Zouave of my acquaintance " Dr. Bourdillot smiled. "A Zouave? Just as nothing is sacred to a sapper, so is nothing hurtful to a Zouave.
Writing a novel?" He held up the bundle with one of his kindly smiles and one of his swift glances at Septimus. "It's my book on guns." "Can I look?" "Certainly." Sypher straightened out the bundle it was in page-proof and read the title: "A Theoretical Treatise on the Construction of Guns of Large Caliber. By Septimus Dix, M.A." He looked through the pages.
My wife and I will play the game for you. She's an amusing body. Heaven knows how I should have got through without her. She also swears by Sypher's Cure." So they became friends. Sypher, since the blistered heel episode, had lost his fearless way of trumpeting the Cure far and wide, having a nervous dread of seeing the p and q of the hateful words form themselves on the lips of a companion.
The way on't wuz, Arvilly had met Miss Deacon Sypher at the gate and she bein' dretful onfaculized with no more tact than a settin' hen, had tackled Arvilly for a contribution to buy a flag to send to our boys in Cuba, and talked enthusiastic about the war's holy mission.
On the top of her matchmaking and her reflections on Truth in the guise of the Veiled Prophet of Khorasan, came Clem Sypher to take possession of his new house. Since Zora had seen him in Monte Carlo he had been to New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, fighting the Jebusa Jones dragon in its lair. He had written Zora stout dispatches during the campaign. Here a victory. There a defeat.
You want the earth, or as much of it as you can get, and when you've got it and found out what it means, you'll make a great use of it. Have you many friends?" "No," said Zora. He had an uncanny way of throwing her back on to essentials. "None stronger than myself." "Will you take me as a friend? I'm strong enough," said Sypher. "Willingly," she said, dominated by his earnestness. "That's good.
A hull load of 'em. And old Miss Minkley, she wuz acquainted with the visitor's mother, used to go to school with her. And Drusilly Sypher, she wuz the visitor from the West's bosom friend, or used to be. Wall, they had all come down to spend the afternoon and visit with each other, and with me and Josiah, and stay to supper.
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