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Deck had found him, after no little difficulty, at the house of one of his friends, and reported to him the arrival of the Riverlawn Cavalry, re-enforced by a company of volunteer sharpshooters from Adair County, under the command of Captain Ripley. "Ripley is an old man, isn't he?" asked Captain Woodbine.
The state library was founded under his auspices. Adair county was so named in his honor. "A man of high character and his public career irreproachable." Breathitt county was named after him. He also held the rank of General in the war of 1812. Thomas Andrews Hendricks, Governor from 1873 to 1877, is already noticed under Vice-Presidents. His "administration was vigorous, just, and impartial."
Go over there and play me a couple of good old tunes, and then we'll both trot to bed." Miss Lady's soft untrained voice began bravely enough. She described with feeling the charms of Annie Laurie, and was half way through Robin Adair before she faltered, started anew, stumbled again, then came to an ignominious halt.
"Some one else! Impossible! I'm sorry, Terry; I didn't mean that I doubted your word. You mustn't be offended, but I'm picturing Phyllis. At her best she was good and sweet and pretty enough to hold any man. She was such a loyal little pal only second best to you, Terry. And Adair he was such a white man, so patient with her and so devoted to the kiddies. I can't see him in the rôle of a runaway.
In the family in which he resided, where there were, of course, better opportunities for judging of his character, and estimating his good qualities, he came to be much beloved. Adair, as he often said himself, would "gae through fire and water to serve him;" for a more honourable, or "discreet" young gentleman, as he also frequently said, "didna breathe the breath o' existence."
"My little sister and I sometimes play with a soft ball at home." Adair looked sharply at him. A temper was evidently one of his numerous qualities. "Oh," he said. "Well, perhaps you wouldn't mind turning out this afternoon and seeing what you can do with a hard ball if you can manage without your little sister." "I should think the form at this place would be about on a level with hers.
Still Adair thought that it might be possible to save wood sufficient for the building of a vessel. It would, at all events, give the men something to do and keep up their spirits with a prospect of getting off. The carpenter shook his head when he spoke to him on the subject.
No doubt Miss Adair, reared in luxury and indulgence, did not in the least realize the harm done to the poor governess-pupil's future by her summary dismissal from Miss Polehampton's boarding-school. To Margaret, anything that the schoolmistress chose to say or do mattered little; to Janetta Colwyn, it might some day mean prosperity or adversity of a very serious kind.
Mr. Snawdor, Fidy Yager, Mrs. Smelts, and a dozen others, being the unfittest to survive, had paid the price of enlightenment. One sultry July night four years later Dr. Isaac Lavinski, now an arrogant member of the staff at the Adair Hospital, paused on his last round of the wards and cocked an inquiring ear above the steps that led to the basement.
It is true that, short as our acquaintance with him had been, we were all exceedingly sorry to lose Mr Adair, but our sorrow in this respect was quite counterbalanced by our pleasure in the knowledge that he thoroughly deserved his promotion, and that one more ship's company would be made happy under the rule of a good captain.
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