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President" said Ira Allen stopping short in his walk, and turning to the chair. "For I believe the council, on a little reflection, will conclude to do something more worthy of the character of the Green Mountain Boys, than the raising of the paltry force which even the bes' of these propositions involves.
During the summer and early fall, Sheila had become a splendid oarswoman. In a skiff belonging to little John-Ed which was drawn up on the sands not far from the cabin she had paddled out through the narrow neck of the tiny cove's entrance and pulled bravely through the surf and out upon the sea beyond. She had learned more than a bit of sea lore, too, from Cap'n Ira and Tunis.
Don't you think it would be better to sit down quietly and rest a while? Maybe you'd better stay with us overnight." "Oh, Ira!" gasped his wife. "I wouldn't scurce dare have her stay. She she's out of her head. She might do something." "I'll do something fast enough!" cried Ida May, stamping her foot. "I'll do something to that hussy!"
Here was the case of accessories tried, whilst their principal for such he should call the Countess of Derby was unconvicted and at large; and for Doctor Oates, he had but spoke of matters which personally applied to that noble lady, whose words, if she used such in passion, touching aid which she expected in some treasonable matters from these Peverils, and from her kinsmen, or her son's kinsmen, of the House of Stanley, may have been but a burst of female resentment dulcis Amaryllidis ira, as the poet hath it.
He was cognizant, however, of the department head's hard stare and the amused glances of the other saleswomen. He strode out of the store, and on the sidewalk halted to mop his face and neck with a blue-bordered handkerchief. "She's as sassy as a chipmunk. I declare! What would Cap'n Ira and Aunt Prue do with a girl like her around the house? And the way she's dressed!"
To be sure the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth letters made the English word 'ice'; the eighty-third and two following made 'sir'; and in the midst of the document, in the second and third lines, I observed the words, "rots," "mutabile," "ira," "net," "atra." "Come now," I thought, "these words seem to justify my uncle's view about the language of the document.
"I swan!" ejaculated Cap'n Ira. "You're coming out strong, old woman, I do say." Sheila could only shake her head. "Why, see," said Prudence, encouraged by her husband's commendation, "there might have been a neighbor woman that Sarah your mother, you know, Ida May was close acquainted with. Maybe she used to talk with this neighbor a good deal about her young days, and how she lived down here.
And as for looking out for the Queen of Sheby " "Now, Ira, Queenie ain't no trouble scurcely." "Huh! She's more trouble than all our money, that's sure. And she's eating her head off." "Now, don't say that," urged his wife in that soothing tone which often irritated Cap'n Ira more than it mollified him. He tapped the metal top of the huge knob of his cane and the spring cover flew open.
All together now!" gasped Cap'n Ira, as the younger man reached over the old woman's struggling heels and seized her around the waist. "Up she comes!" continued the excited old man, as though he were bossing a capstan crew starting one of the Susan Gatskill's anchors. Tunis Latham set Prudence Ball on her feet, but the old woman was forced to lean against the stalwart young man for a minute.
"Tu verras Tout va bien Ca ira," were the only answers they deigned to make; frequently they continued smoking their pipes in obdurate silence. She occupied the back rooms of her house, because her guards apprehended that she might from the front windows receive intelligence from her friends.