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"You haven't any proof that it is really them, Mary," objected her husband, "and you shouldn't make reckless accusations before folks." "I know very well it is them," retorted Mrs. Baxter, "and so do you, Adoniram. And Mrs. Charley knows it too, although she can't prove it more's the pity! I don't say Isaac Cropper steals those plums with his own hands.
Before the court adjourned that day it was known throughout the town that Adoniram K. Hotchkiss had compromised the suit for four thousand dollars and costs. Colonel Starbottle had so far recovered his equanimity as to strut jauntily towards his office, where he was to meet his fair client.
"I see it has done you good to breathe the country air," said she. "Jane, get some of the blackberry jam, and call Adoniram and the children." So we went in to tea. We eat in the back parlor, for our little house and limited means do not allow us to have things upon the Spanish scale.
When the men left the store that night, Simon Basset's, Jake Noyes's, and Adoniram Judd's way lay in the same direction. They still discussed poor Abel Edwards's disappearance as they went along. Their voices were rising high, when suddenly Jake Noyes gave Simon Basset a sharp nudge. "Shut up," he whispered; "the Edwards boy's behind us."
It can not be expected that Doctor Duff, who exhausted himself in teaching Hindoos the way to heaven, and Doctor Abeel, who gave his life in the evangelization of China, and Adoniram Judson, who toiled for the redemption of Borneo, should be sent down by some celestial missionary society to educate those who wasted all their earthly existence. Evangelistic and missionary efforts are ended.
Jerome cried, angrily. "He is going blind, and this money will cure him. If you are his mother " "Don't ask anybody to take even a kindness that you wouldn't take yourself," said Paulina Maria. Jerome flung out of the room without another word. When he got out-of-doors, he found Adoniram at his elbow. "I want ye to know that I'm much obliged to ye, J'rome," he whispered.
"Oh, Adoniram!" exclaimed his wife, but it was under her breath, and no one heard the exclamation. "I think Dr. Fisher ought to go with the other party; he will be needed there," Mrs. Selwyn was saying, in her quiet way. "And I will bathe Mrs.
The barn was all completed ready for use by the third week in July. Adoniram had planned to move his stock in on Wednesday; on Tuesday he received a letter which changed his plans. He came in with it early in the morning. "Sammy's been to the post-office," said he, "an' I've got a letter from Hiram." Hiram was Mrs. Penn's brother, who lived in Vermont. "Well," said Mrs.
She had been a widow four years, when Adoniram Judson, who had returned from Rangoon, and was about to take charge of the station at Moulmein, made her his second wife, on the 10th of April, 1834.
Then he gave it up, and went on to the store, where he had an errand. He resolved to see Adoniram, and try to influence him to take the money for his blind son. He could not believe that he would not do so. Long before he reached the store he could hear the gabble of excited voices, and loud peals of rough laughter. "What's going on?" he thought.
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