Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 16, 2025
Nominated on the second ballot to the eternal confusion of the Munyon crowd, who afterward, I have been told, bolted the ticket and voted solidly for my Republican opponent. I made a speech, and was wildly cheered, then dragged in Lum Atkins's buggy to my hotel by an army of yelling partisans.
He brandished a clenched fist over the breakfast dishes. Brown leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes. "Call me when the patient recovers his senses," he drawled wearily. "This delirium is painful to a sensitive nature." Atkins's fist wavered in mid-air, opened, and was drawn across its owner's forehead.
I agreed to this readily; and they had a little plot of ground allotted to them, where they had three tents or houses set up, surrounded with a basket-work, palisadoed like Atkins's, adjoining to his plantation. Their tents were contrived so that they had each of them a room apart to lodge in, and a middle tent like a great storehouse to lay their goods in, and to eat and to drink in.
Morrison, whose spine was broken by a Winchester bullet, but who was perfectly conscious, was at once lifted out and placed in Atkins's boat, and Tessa, with the tears streaming down her pale face, and trying hard to restrain her sobs, pillowed his old, grey head upon Atkins's coat.
Elfreda had accepted Laura Atkins's invitation to spend Easter with her, and was already convulsing the three Oakdale girls with excerpts from conversations to take place, supposedly, between herself and Laura's learned father. "I have been reading up a lot on the pterodactyl and ichthyosaurus and other small, playful animals of the beginning of the world variety," she confided to Miriam.
When Fanny said crazy, she suddenly started and shuddered as if she had struck herself. She thought of Eva. Always the possibility of a like doom was in her own mind. "It has stopped snowing, mother," Ellen said. "Stopped snowing! What if it has? The roads ain't cleared. You can't get down to Abby Atkins's without gettin' wet up to your knees.
Gaunt revived, her fainting, so soon after Mr. Atkins's proposal, had produced a sinister effect on the minds of all present; and every face showed it, except the wary Houseman's. On her retiring, it broke out first in murmurs, then in plain words. As for Mr. Atkins, he now showed the moderation of an able man who feels he has a strong cause.
"What's all this mean? And where is everybody. Have all hands " He stopped in the middle of the sentence. They were at the foot of Whittaker's Hill. Its top, between the Atkins's gate and the Whittaker fence, was black with people. Children pranced about the outskirts of the crowd. A shout came down the wind. The horses, not in the least fatigued by their long canter, trotted up the slope.
We wouldn't want to go contrary to Heman, none of us; hey?" "Tad" Simpson was known to be deep in Congressman Atkins's confidence. The mention of the great man's name was received with reverence and nods of approval. "That's right. We mustn't do nothin' to displease Heman," was the general opinion. Captain Cy did not join the chorus. He refilled his pipe and crossed his legs. "Humph!" he grunted.
Miriam accidentally intercepted one of these straying glances. In it she fancied she read reproach. A quick flush rose to Laura Atkins's cheeks. Drawing down her eyebrows she scowled defiantly at Miriam, then turned her head away, and went on with her dinner. After dinner the discussion of the proposed club was renewed with energy.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking