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"He returned in a spare wherry, some time since," he replied; and thereon they made a few paces in silence. "Roger," said the little lady, taking breath preparatory to wasting it, "I thought Helen was a coquette. I've changed my mind. The fault is yours." He turned and looked down at her with some surprise. "You know we haven't much more time, and certainly" "Kate!"
The daughter will come down, and speak to her lover in his wherry at Lambeth Stairs," &c., &c. When I come back to dress for dinner, the archbishop is dead on my table in five pages; medicine, topography, theology, all right, and Jones has gone home to his family some hours. Sir Christopher is the architect of St. Paul's. He has not laid the stones or carried up the mortar.
Wherry." Alice made one more effort to bring recollection to Estelle. "Don't you know me, dear?" she asked softly. "I am Alice your friend Alice. This is Ruth, and you are Estelle Brown, from Boston, you know." "Boston? I was never in Boston. And I am not Estelle Brown. You must be mistaken." Her eyes roved around the hospital room, and a look of pain and fright dimmed them.
Dave and I were both nerved to desperation; Sheriff Wherry, anxious to prevent a conflict, counciled with the opposition drovers, resulting in their outfits leaving town, while the principals took stage across to Buford. Meanwhile Sponsilier had wired full particulars to our employer at Big Horn.
On the staff I had been thrown into intimate relations to Colonel William M. Wherry, senior aide-de-camp, and Major J. A. Campbell, adjutant-general. These officers continued to the end of the war in these positions, which they filled with great credit and usefulness.
Paul's to look to, he asked no more except indeed that his gentle blood stirred at the notion of acting salesman in the book-stall, and Master Hansen assured him with a smile that Will Wherry, the other boy, would do that better than either of them, and that he would be entirely employed here.
And I'd have been here yesterday if Mary hadn't insisted upon my spending the night with her. Well do I remember how Carl installed himself here last year with a Japanese servant and invited that good-looking Wherry boy to come and scratch the furniture. I don't suppose Carl invited him for that purpose," added Aunt Agatha fairly, "but he did it, anyway.
He called no council of war, for he knew not how much might be known or suspected of the disaster already sustained, and he had fully made up his mind as to the course to be pursued. He had indeed taken a supreme resolution. Entirely out of his own breast, without advising with any man, he calmly gave directions that every war-ship, transport, barge, or wherry should put to sea at once.
The next morning we went to the office of the owners in Old Broad Street, where I was, by the signing of certain papers, bound apprentice for four years on board the good ship "Eagle," South Sea whaler, Captain Hake commander. This done, we made our way to the river, and getting into a wherry proceeded in her to the dock, in which my ship lay getting ready for sea.
Why the devil didn't you take care of your wherry, and haul a-head when you saw the launch coming?" "How could we, when the chest was hoisting out?" "Very true. Well, I am very sorry for you, but I must look after my chest." So saying, he disappeared down the gangway ladder. "I'll try it again, anyhow," said Tom, going up to the first lieutenant.
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