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In a host of similar resolutions, Legislative caucuses, political conventions, dubs, societies, prominent individuals not in the political machine, all ringingly declared for Lincoln, the one proper candidate of the "Union party"-as the movement was labeled in a last and relatively successful attempt to break party lines.
He made up his mind quickly. He was not the man to be actuated by false heroics about dying, and he had no fancy whatever for the gallows of M. de Lesdiguieres' providing. The immediate task that he had set himself might be accomplished. He had made heard and ringingly the voice that M. de La Tour d'Azyr imagined he had silenced. But he was very far from having done with life.
"To pay off a mortgage to my grandfather, yes," he answered soberly, quite conscious of what he was doing and of its recklessness and, perhaps, idiocy. "And to beat Blenham." She jumped up and ran around the table to put her two hands on his shoulders and shake him. "You're a God-blessed brick, Steve Packard!" she cried ringingly. "But I'm not a bloodsucker, either.
"But I didn't mention him to Miss Hinsdale. In fact, I didn't mention anything to Miss Hinsdale. What have I done? The young man is making his living by his work and my living, too, for that matter. It only seems to me that his tariff editorials are rather humorous." She laughed suddenly ringingly. "Of course they are! How should I know? Immensely humorous!
He did laugh, ringingly. "She hasn't gone back on you; except in her heart. Good God, Jimsy King, what do you think you are to hold a girl like that with her talent and her success and her future? She's only stuck by you because it was her creed, that's all." "Look here, Cart', I'm not going to argue with you. It's not on the square to Skipper even to talk about it, but don't be a crazy fool.
"Eliot, come back!" she cried out, and there was a note so ringingly clear and decisive in her voice that involuntarily he halted. "I have listened to you," she went on quietly. "Now you will listen to me." He retraced his steps to her side, like a man moving without his own volition, and stood waiting. "Well?" he said tonelessly. "What is it you wish to say? I am listening."
Some one at a lower window began to sing, softly at first, the National Anthem of the South; then voice after voice joined in, in spite of sentinels' warnings, till the full volume of the defiant chorus rolled out, ringingly: "Hurrah! hurrah! for Southern rights, hurrah! One cheer more for the bonnie blue flag That carries a Single Star."
"It IS a bluff and I CALL you!" declared Bo, ringingly. Las Vegas suddenly awoke to consequences. He essayed to speak, but she was so wonderful then, so white and blazing-eyed, that he was stricken mute. "I'll ride Blue-Bo this afternoon," deliberately stated the girl. Las Vegas had wit enough to grasp her meaning, and he seemed about to collapse. "Very well, you can make me Mrs.
This new aspect of his patron made Dale stammer uncomfortably; and he felt something akin to humiliation in lieu of the fine glow of gratitude with which he had come hurrying from the Euston Road. "Then my duty and my thanks and I'll say good afternoon, sir." He had pulled himself together and spoken these last words ringingly, and now grasping Mr.
He kissed Lydia good-by, tossed Ariadne high in the air, and as he hurried down the driveway he called back over his shoulder: "Take good care of my little niece for me! I tell you it's the kids that count the most!" It was a saying that filled ringingly for Lydia the long, hot days of the quiet summer that ensued. As for Ariadne, she did not for months stop talking of "nice, laughy, Unkie Hawy."
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