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So they talked on, unknowing that far up the road the Cresswell coaches were wheeling along with precious burdens. In the first carriage were Mrs. Grey and Mrs. Vanderpool, Mr. Cresswell and Miss Taylor. Mrs. Vanderpool was lolling luxuriously, but Mrs. Grey was a little stiff from long travel and sat upright. Mr.
The bill was introduced in the Senate by Nelson Whittaker of Wheeling. U. S. Senator Stephen B. Elkins commanded it to be tabled and this was done. A bill for Presidential suffrage was defeated. A resolution introduced in the Senate by Samuel Montgomery to submit a suffrage amendment to the State Constitution received two votes. Dr.
Leon Sammet, head of the copartnership of Sammet Brothers, sat in the firm's sample room and puffed gloomily at a Wheeling stogy. His brother, Barney Sammet, stood beside him reading aloud from a letter which he held in his hand. "'Gents," he said, "'your shipment of the fourteenth instant to hand, and in reply will say we ain't satisfied with nothing but style forty-one-fifty.
I'll be really competent to take care of my own children. I don't pretend I am now." "I don't see why you can't do that as things are now. She'll let you practise bathing them and things like that, and certainly no one would object to your wheeling them out in the pram. But the nurse-maid would be on hand in case ..."
"My mother?" said Ruby, wishing to prolong the interview. "Is well," said the captain. "Now, goodbye, lad, and be off." "Goodbye, Minnie," cried Ruby, stepping forward suddenly and seizing the girl's hand; then, wheeling quickly round, he sprang over the rocks, and returned to his post. "Ha! it's time," cried the smith. "I thought you would never be done makin' love to that there girl.
Now, wheeling into the back promenade Greg glided before the judges. "Time," called the holder of the watch. "I'm willing," nodded Greg. "And I'm willing any contestant who wants should try my stunt before the verdict is given." The conference between the judges did not last long and Greg got the decision. "The freshman mile will come along later," announced Ben, through the megaphone.
He knew that the man would not hear him, but he was so exultant that he wanted to say something, to shout to him, or in the slang of his own land, to let off steam. But while the English aviator could not understand the words the gestures were clear to him, and he waved a hand in friendly fashion. Then, wheeling in a fine circle, he came back by their side as an escort.
From the upper deck, this Masters party watched that city panorama, spread on the hills for all to see, roll away from them, the wheeling flocks of gulls trailing the craft in the roads, the surge of golden waters rolling in from the Gate. A morning mood blew in upon the winds; the party became gay.
This same afternoon Thyme, wheeling a bicycle and carrying a light valise, was slipping into a back street out of the Old Square. Putting her burden down at the pavement's edge, she blew a whistle. A hansom-cab appeared, and a man in ragged clothes, who seemed to spring out of the pavement, took hold of her valise. His lean, unshaven face was full of wolfish misery.
She was absorbed in her arrangements, and on seeing Rachel remarked confidentially: "If one can give men a room to themselves where they will sit, it's all to the good. Arm-chairs are the important things " She began wheeling them about. "Now, does it still look like a bar at a railway station?" She whipped a plush cover off a table. The appearance of the place was marvellously improved.
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