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I would have some day to meet my own children in the field, and combat against their just desire for liberty. Now, with my many years, I have come to lead and counsel the new generation to ultimate victory." Of his methods in war, Thomas Alvord says: "General Gomez never has more than 300 or 400 men with him.
Alvord sat over his lonely hearth, his face buried in his hands. The day had been terribly long and torturing; memory had presented, like mocking spectres, his past and what it might have been. A sense of loneliness, a horror of great darkness, overwhelmed him. Nature had grown cold and forbidding, and was losing its power to solace.
Of course, he's a faker, but he's a clever one, and I'm anxious to see what his game is this time. Of course, it's, first of all, advertisement for the paper that's backing him, but it's a new game. At least, it's new over here; they tell me it's done to death in England." "Oh, no, Alvord, it isn't a game," insisted Miss Ames; "if the man is blindfolded, he can't play any tricks on us.
Early in 1774, Harrod began the building of cabins and a fort, and planted corn on the site of Harrodsburg. Thus to him and not to Boone fell the honor of founding the first permanent white settlement in Kentucky. * See Alvord, "The Mississippi Valley in British Politics," vol. II, pp. 191-94. When summer came, its thick verdure proffering ambuscade, the air hung tense along the border.
It is absurd, we all know, to suspect Aunt Abby I was out of town who is left but Mason?" "Hush! I won't listen to, such a suggestion! Mason was at his home that night." "Are you sure?" "Of course, I'm sure! And I don't have to have it proved by a detective either! And now, Alvord Hendricks, you may go!
Before they are two years old we decapitate them. Old fowls, with rare exceptions, will not lay in winter." Sad-eyed Mr. Alvord listened as if there were more consolation and cheer in this talk on poultry than in the counsel of sages. The "chicken fever" is more inevitable in a man's life than the chicken-pox, and sooner or later all who are exposed succumb to it.
Burt was soon despatched with another, while she and Johnnie, who had been flitting about, eager and interested, followed with light and delicate vases. To their surprise, Mr. Alvord intercepted them near the church vestibule. He had never been seen at any place of worship, and the reserve and dignity of his manner had prevented the most zealous from interfering with his habits.
"Why, yes, I suppose so if you so decree. What about Patterson?" "Oh, those things you and Alvord must look after. I've no head for business. And anyway must it be attended to at once?" "Not immediately. Sanford's estate is so large, and his debtors so numerous, it will take months to get it adjusted." "Very well, let anything unpleasant wait for a while, then."
He had returned from Boston on an early morning train, and hearing of the tragedy, came at once to the Embury home. At sight of his grave, sympathetic face, Eunice burst into tears, the first she had been able to shed, and they were a real relief to her overburdened heart. "Oh, Alvord," she cried, hysterically, "now you can be president!"
I'll wait patiently for a year two years as long as you wish only give me the assurance that you will not marry Mason Elliott." "You are impossible! How dare you speak to me of my marriage with anybody, when my husband is only just dead? One word more, Alvord, on the subject, and I shall forbid you my house!" "All right, my lady!
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