Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 3, 2025
Lady Charlotte's blunt "Oh!" when he entered her room and bowed upon the announcement of his name, was caused by an instantaneous perception and refection that it would be prudent to keep her grand-daughter Philippa, aged between seventeen and eighteen, out of his way. "You are friend of Mr. Abner's, are you?" He was not disconcerted.
The worn carpet, the faded curtains, Abner's easy chair, his pipe upon the corner of the mantelpiece beside the vase of spills. "It is curious," he said, "finding this vein of fancy, of tenderness in you. I always regarded you as such a practical, unsentimental young person." "Perhaps we neither of us knew each other too well, in those days," she answered. The small servant entered with the tea.
When these were fallen down dead, the rest of the army came to a sore battle, and Abner's men were beaten; and when they were beaten, Joab did not leave off pursuing them, but he pressed upon them, and excited the soldiers to follow them close, and not to grow weary of killing them.
On the head of this came Abner limping in, and told how a savage had been seen creeping after him with a battle-ax, and how he had lain insensible for days, and now was lame for life. George managed to forgive Jacky's unkind desertion, but for creeping after Abner and "spoiling him for life," to use Abner's phrase, he vowed vengeance on that black hide and heart.
"Well," faltered Dotty, "she wanted to come her own self. She said she wished I'd stay to home, so, of course I camed!" "I'll tell you how it is," said Susy, thoughtfully. "That queer old Abner's nowhere to be seen. I suppose he's in the cornfield, or the meadow, or the barn. It's after five; and what will aunt Martha think?
Hadassah, as she watched the opening virtues of Abner's daughter, could not, would not believe that the parent of Zarah could ever be finally lost. God would surely hear a mother's prayers, and save Abner from the fate of an apostate. All that Hadassah asked of Heaven was to see her son once again in the path of duty, and then she would die happy.
He had sough to take Abner's life, and Abner contended, that in killing Asahel he had but acted in self-defense. Before inflicting the fatal wound, Joab held a formal court of justice over Abner. He asked: "Why didst thou no render Asahel harmless by wounding him rather than kill him?" Abner replied that he could not have done it.
Byers took it, seemingly mollified, and yet inwardly disturbed, more even than was customary in Abner's guests after dinner. "Have a drink with me," he suggested, although it had struck him that Mr. Byers had been drinking before dinner. "I'm agreeable," responded Byers promptly; "but," with a glance at the crowded bar-room, "couldn't we go somewhere, jest you and me, and have a quiet confab?"
"I suppose," she said, "that's why you never married mother?" Abner's mind at the moment was much occupied with the Panama Canal. "What mother?" he asked. "Whose mother?" "My mother," answered Ann. "I suppose men are like that." "What are you talking about?" said Abner, dismissing altogether the Panama Canal. "You loved my mother very much," explained Ann with cold deliberation.
"His gun's been shot recent," said the sheriff. It was the final gram of evidence necessary to complete assurance of Abner's guilt. Mary Ware was observed by many to walk directly from the jail window to Scattergood Baines's hardware store, and there to stop and address Scattergood, who sat barefooted, and therefore in deep thought, before the door of his place of business. "Mr.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking