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Draft shown to T. R., who suggests a couple of added sentences emphasizing that the nomination must come as a real popular demand, and declaring that the Governors are taking their action not for his sake, but for the sake of the country. Knox takes copy of letter and starts for home, to go out to see Governors as soon as possible.
We'll allow even the stove, to a man who owns he didn't see it, though it is pretty steep." He pointed to a paragraph which described how, after the wreck of the watchman's shanty, the kitchen stove floated ashore with the house-cat alive and safe upon it. I still believe that an unfriendly printer played me that trick. "Next time," he added, dismissing me, "make them swear to the stove.
'Aweel, commented Dand to himself, shaking his head the while, as he led the mare to the byre, 'I'm nane so sure but I would ha' juist pit up wi' the hangin'. Then he added aloud, 'The wife will be sair vext when she sees the Scots heifer ye ha' ridden back wi'.
"Who would not love her!" sighed Lady Winsleigh gently, as Sir Philip released her hands from his warm clasp, then raising her tearful eyes to his she added wistfully, "You must take great care of her, Philip she is so sensitive, I always fancy an unkind word would kill her."
Our wealth is not an extraneous thing that can be readily added or taken away. It is our possibility of self-education and of professional improvement, it is the medium in which we can work, it is our hope of children. To take away our wealth is to maim us. There is nothing humiliating in such an avowal. It is merely an assertion of the integrity of one's life and work.
Before the astonished Joe could utter a single word the tramp pointed at Joe's trainman's cap and added: "I see you are working now for the Chicago & North-Western Railroad," and when still no sign of recognition came from Joe's mouth he in a most threatening manner finished: "Do they know your record over there?"
"My cousin, of course, only wants this for a little hack hat," she added to Susan's modest suggestion of price to the milliner, and in the White House she consented to Susan's selections with a consoling reminder, "It isn't as if you didn't have your lovely French underwear at home, Sue! These will do very nicely for your rough camping trip!" Compared to Mary Lou, Susan was a very poor shopper.
"Not that I didn't try to find out," he added honestly, "but he was so close, I couldn't get nothing from him. He's from Paris, France; may be Louis Philippe himself, for all I know." "No; he ain't Louis Philippe," returned the doctor with decision, "'cause I seen his likeness in the magazine." "Might be the dolphin then," suggested the boniface. "He's so mighty mysterious."
But I don't like Colonel Arran," he added with a sneer, "and I haven't any overwhelming admiration for Captain Hallam. And there you are, with your kindness and gentleness and everything utterly wasted on a dull, sordid brute who had already insulted you once. . . . Shall I leave your kitchen?" "No," she said faintly. "I am going."
"Yer kin go now," he added to the other, whose attention I endeavoured to attract, but dared not call to loud enough, lest the guards should hear me. "Dash my buttons! I don't want yer to go yer a good 'un arter all. Why can't yer kum along? The cap'n 'll make it all straight agin about the desartion." "Mr Lincoln, I cannot go with you. Please suffer me to depart!"
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