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"Looks like you had," grumbled the farmer, as he flashed his eyes again toward the display so near at hand. "And if so be you're of the same mind about that Thatcher farm, p'raps we might come to terms about the same, sir. I guess you'd just as lief sell it to me as anybody else, wouldn't you, Mr. Rollins?"
And Dan suspected that Bassett also harbored similar notions of caste. Independently of the struggle in progress between Thatcher and Bassett, it was quite likely that the Bassetts would look askance at the idea of a union between their daughter and Edward Thatcher's son, no matter what might be said in Allen's favor.
The clause conditional, introduced by the word "if," does not always imply a conclusion, even in the mind of the propounder. Miss Brewster would have been hard put to it to round out her subjunctive. "Pooh!" said Thatcher Brewster. Thatcher Brewster's "Pooh!" is generally recognized in the realm of high finance as carrying weight. It is not derisive or contemptuous; it is dismissive.
Thatcher laid the letter down a little indignantly. Strong men are quite as liable as weak women are to sudden inconsistencies on any question they may have in common.
The village paper published biographical sketches of the boys. The Widow Douglas put Huck's money out at six per cent., and Judge Thatcher did the same with Tom's at Aunt Polly's request. Each lad had an income, now, that was simply prodigious a dollar for every week-day in the year and half of the Sundays.
Thatcher looked at the end of his cigar and waited for Dan to reply. "I've grown very fond of Allen. He's very unusual; he's full of surprises." "That boy," said Thatcher, pointing his cigar at Dan, "is the greatest boy in the world; but, damn it all, I don't make him out." "Well, he's different; he's an idealist. I'm not sure that he isn't a philosopher!"
Thatcher seemed balder and more repellent than when she had first seen him on the floor of the convention hall on the day Harwood uttered Bassett's defiance. Sylvia rose with the book still in her hand and walked to the end of the room; but any one in the house might have heard what Thatcher was saying.
"Is Thatcher a lady's man?" queried the lady suddenly. "Hardly, I should say," responded Wiles. "He pretends to be absorbed in his swindle and devoted to his mine; and I don't think that even you " he stopped with a slight sneer. "There, you are misunderstanding me again, and, what is worse, you are misunderstanding your case. Thatcher is pleased with her because he has probably seen no one else.
November 15, 1879, Apostle Moses Thatcher was in Mexico City with J.Z. Stewart and Trejo, there founding the first organization of the Church within the Republic. Decided impetus was given the southward movement when it became evident that the national prosecution against plural marriage was to be pushed to the extreme.
He knows more than people think, and has queer cunning ways of his own; but he'll never be any better or wiser than he is now. 'Not if you were to take as much pains with him as you do with the patients who pay you, Mrs. Thatcher? asked Milly. 'I've taken pains with him, answered the woman, with a scowl.
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