Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 24, 2025
'Twas him as wouldn't let us cut the traces, and then stood by Beauty and kept her still. I don't know where you'd have been, sir, nor Miss Huntingdon neither, if it hadn't been for Master Amos's presence of mind." "Ah, well, perhaps so," said his master, not best pleased with the remark; while Amos turned red, and motioned to the butler to keep silent.
The snow was about four feet deep, and many of the party had their feet frozen, for it was bitter cold. When we got to Sabbath Day Point, we found the rest of our men there, and a number of good fires. We warmed ourselves at them, and our companions brought us some warm food and drink. Amos's ear was puffed up, and his toes were so sore he could hardly walk.
I exclaimed. " yet oftener as a smith " "Hum!" said I. " and most of all as a man." "As a man!" said I, and, turning my back upon the bellows, I sat down upon the anvil and, taking my chin in my hand, stared away to where the red roof of old Amos's oast-house peeped through the swaying green of leaves. "As a man?" said I to myself again, and so fell a-dreaming of this Charmian.
She knew, too, the strength of Amos's religious character, and the weakness of any higher or holier principles in Walter's heart; and she was sure that the steady consistency of her elder nephew would gradually win on the generous heart of his brother, spite of himself.
"Will you forgive me, Amos, for what I did yesterday?" "I surely ought to, after we settled it with our fists." "May I walk home with you?" Hardy asked, meekly, after a brief pause. "To what end?" "I want to be with some one who is friendly," and Master Piemont's assistant spoke in a tone of such dejection that Amos's heart was touched. "Where do you live?" "Nowhere now.
"As soon as he is back, aye, if he comes Saturday or not, I'll put him aboard the first craft that can get out of harbor, and the farther her port the better. A year on shipboard is what the boy needs." "You wouldn't send the boy with a strange captain?" Mrs. Cary questioned anxiously. "Indeed I will. So long as he's on board a ship we shall know where he is," declared Amos's father.
Ten or a dozen half-grown boys, with the barber's apprentice at their head, were pelting the house with missiles of every kind, and Amos's mother cried frantically, as her son was on the point of rushing out to put an end to the disturbance: "Don't show yourself, my boy, don't show yourself!
Amos's office, and where, by a guttering candle, and talking to the bailiff, sat a stout gentleman in a cloak and a laced hat. The young porter carried his candle, too, preceding Mr. George, so there was a sufficiency of light in the apartment. "We are not angry any more, Harry!" says the stout gentleman, in a cheery voice, getting up and advancing with an outstretched hand to the new-comer.
"Of course not, dear Walter," replied Miss Huntingdon; "we shall be quite prepared to receive them also, though they are at present not with their mother, but under Amos's charge." "Ah, I remember," said her brother; "well, we can send for them too, when the poor child herself has got here." "Am I to write all that?" asked Walter. "Oh, certainly," was the reply.
Amos's affairs became more and more serious to him, and month after month, too, wore away more and more of that armour of indignation and defiance with which he had at first defended himself from the harsh looks of faces that were once the friendliest.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking