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Updated: June 28, 2025
But again Winthrop was first in throwing the discus, but Alden was first in the pole vault; and so the points scored by each of the two rivals remained the same when at last came the trials in the hundred yards dash, which as we know was the event in which Will Phelps and Mott were entered.
"How very foolish you talk, Hester!" she said reprovingly; but she looked up at the girl with such a tender light in her eyes, that Hester laughed aloud. "But you like my foolishness, Aunt Debby. I know you do." She was down beside Debby Alden with her hand laid caressingly on the woman's arm. "Now, Hester, you are " "But you like me to be foolish. You know you do, Aunt Debby." "I surely do not "
But John Alden seemed not to notice the girl's confusion until, in a pause in his eloquence, Priscilla bent her head a little, as if to mend a break in the flax, and said, "Prithee, John, why don't you speak for yourself?" Then a great light broke on the understanding of John Alden, and a great warmth welled up in his heart, and they were married.
He must have talked to me a half an hour." "And then he went home?" suggested Debby. Hester blushed. "No, Miss Burkham came up and said that I must remember there were other guests who demanded some of my time, and I had to excuse myself." Debby Alden in her thoughts gave thanks to Miss Burkham. Hester continued her chatter.
"We started at that shot," one of them announced in explanation of their prompt arrival. Alden motioned Slade to his horse and helped him up. "Shoot him out of the saddle if he makes a break," he ordered briefly. "Now you can move against those men I've sworn out complaints for," Harris said to Alden.
The helicopters began to turn, to buzz, to roar into furious activity, seeking to check the plunge. The major came staggering back. But quicker than he, "Captain Alden" was at the Master's side. "He shot you?" the woman cried, pointing. "Bah! A splinter of glass!" And the Master shook off the blood with a twitch of his head. "That was a neat bull's-eye you made on him, Captain.
Such, at any rate, had always been the rule, though a few daring ones were beginning to defy even that. Such rules were very rigid, but they were purely conventional, they had nothing to do with right or wrong: a fact which Mrs. Alden set forth with her usual incisiveness.
Then he took them through the old house with its ample hall and spacious rooms on one side. They concluded it must have been able to stand quite a siege, judging from its present solidity. And Mrs. Alden treated them to a pitcher of freshly churned buttermilk, and a slice of excellent rye bread, which they found delightful.
"And there is Captain Alden he is a witch, too, it seems!" And Lady Mary laughed scornfully. "Why not you too? You are no better a man than Captain Alden." "Oh, the Captain shall not be hurt." "It will not be through any mercy of his judges then. But, answer my question: what will you do, if they dare to accuse me? Answer me that!" "You certainly are not serious, Lady Mary?"
When the chief and the skipper begin to interfere with the dividends, they look overside some bright day and see Alden P. Ricks waiting for them on the cap of the wharf. And when the ship is alongside, the said Ricks comes aboard with five bones in his pocket, and the said skipper and the said chief are invited into the dining saloon to roll the said bones one flop and high man out. Yes, sir. Out!
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