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"I'm a right smart stiffer than I'd been ef I'd stayed South," replied Amidon. Then the postmaster wondered, as Mrs. Anderson had done, why Major Arms was driving up with Samson Rawdy rather than in the Carroll carriage, and the others opined, as Randolph had done, that they had not expected him. "I don't see, for my part, what they get to feed him on when he comes," said Amidon, wisely.
"Mighty good-looking girl," said Amidon. "Healthy girl," said another. "If more young fellows had the horse-sense to marry girls like that, I'd give up medicine and go on a ranch." The Banbridge doctor said that. He was rather young, and had been in the village about five years. He had taken the practice of an old physician, a distant relative who had died six months before. Dr.
"He wasn't much of a lawyer, anyhow," said Amidon. "That's so. He didn't set the river afire," remarked the postmaster. "I don't believe, if Anderson trusts him, but he knows what he is about," said the druggist. "I guess he knows he's goin' to get his pay." "Mebbe some of those fine securities of his will come up sometime," Amidon said. "I heard they'd been slumpin' lately.
Lee gave an angry sniff, and flirted up his paper before his face. "Why don't ye say?" pressed Tappan, with a hard wink at the others. "I don't know that it is any of your business," replied Lee. "Ask when the millennium's comin'," said Amidon, in the chair. "I wish I was as sure of the millennium as I am of those dividends," declared Lee, brought to bay. "Glad you've got faith in that dead-beat.
He himself never even thought of it, much less spoke of it, as such. "Well, I must be going to the 'Parlor," he would say when setting out to business. He was unmarried, and lived in a boarding-house. As Flynn shaved Rosenstein, who was naturally speechless, his landlady's husband, Billy Amidon, was talking a good deal.
Rosenstein did credit to his German ancestry at times, and was then in deep waters for his village acquaintances. "Who would you ruther meet in the lookin'-glass than yerself?" pursued Amidon.
Miss Katharine Morey of Boston was also knocked to the pavement by a sailor, who took her flag and then darted off into the crowd. Miss Elizabeth Stuyvesant was struck by a soldier in uniform and her blouse torn from her body. Miss Maud Jamison of Virginia was knocked down and dragged along the sidewalk. Miss Beulah Amidon of North Dakota was knocked down by a sailor.
My father believed they were his, or he wouldn't have crossed the ocean and spent all his money in the hope of stepping into your brother's shoes." There were those and Lord Northmorland and the Duchess of Amidon were among them who did not admit that Lorenzi had believed in his "rights."
Guess there's some Banbridge folks got hit pretty bad, too." "Who?" asked Drake, eagerly. "I heard Lee was in it, for one, and I guess there's others. I must light out of this. It's dinner-time. Where's that arrow-root? My wife's got to make arrow-root gruel for old Mrs. Joy. She's dreadful poorly. Oh, there it is!" Amidon started, and the postmaster also. In the doorway Amidon paused.
"Yes, to the Cretic, which left dock the very night in which we are so deeply interested." "Good. Whom to? The Captain?" "No, to a Mrs. Constantin Amidon. But first be sure there is such a passenger." "Mrs.! What idea have you there?" "Excuse my not stating over the telephone. The message is to be to this effect. Did she at any time immediately before or after her marriage to Mr.
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