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Two weeks later occurred the other event, when the 'Gypsy' steamed into the Cape harbor and a select party became the guests of honor at Uncle Terry's home.
Even now it is difficult to produce such a play as the Comedy of Errors; and to the picturesque accident of Miss Ellen Terry's brother resembling herself we owe the opportunity of seeing Twelfth Night adequately performed.
Have I won the bet?" he was demanding, his hands in the pockets of his leather jacket, as he stood to survey his work. If I had not infinite belief in Terry's true Irish ingenuity, I would have considered the day and the bet both lost before the test had been essayed.
General Terry's troops were facing the greater part of Hoke's division in a position nearly opposite the mouth of Town Creek, and were meeting with stubborn resistance. It was known that Hardee's command, having evacuated Charleston, was moving northward to unite with the Confederates in North Carolina, and it was supposed to aim at reaching Wilmington.
But now, since he has gone, and I have been forced to think of the things he said, many of the easily accepted but only half understood reflections on our love have come back to me with all their sting. And I must now believe that I have passed out from Terry's life utterly, and that there is no return, nor hope of return.
Slowly the look in Terry's eyes altered. In a moment they were fairly dancing. And then, causing her father to stare at her curiously, she broke out into peal after peal of delicious laughter.
The first seed of the essential discord which finally resulted, at a much later time, in their relations was planted thus in this deep irritation of Terry's soul; it did not, however, affect seriously his love for Marie as a person or his interest in her as a social experiment.
This fact I took for granted, as I had heard it from Terry's own lips more than once; but as we flew over the wooded road which divided the Châlet des Pins from the Cap Martin Hotel, I would have sworn that we were going at the rate of sixty miles per hour. "Good Heavens!" I gasped. "Have you been doing anything to this car, to make her faster than she was? Help! I can't breathe."
Stanton The thirteenth amendment of the Constitution Political excitement at the capital A little dinner-party Garfield, H. W. Davis, and Schenck Davis on Lincoln Destination of our army Embarkation Steamship "Atlantic" Visit to Fort Monroe The sea-voyage Cape Fear Inlet General Terry's lines Bragg the Confederate commander Reconnoitring his lines The colored troops "Monitor" engaged with Fort Anderson Alternate plans Marching on Wilmington by the west bank of the river My column opposite the town Orders not applicable to the situation Difficulty of communication Use of discretion Wilmington evacuated A happy result.
I offered her a twenty and she sidestepped." Terry's brother had got drunk a few days before, had killed a woman and was on his way to the chair. Terry scowled at the boss and said: "She's got a right to, ain't she? Don't she earn her money honest, without harmin' anybody but herself?
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