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Crosland has been transferred recently to Bello Horizonte, in the great State of Minas Geraes. Farther South, in Sao Paulo, the richest and most progressive State in the country, are Bagby, Deter and Edwards, Misses Carroll, Thomas and Grove.
"Torchy," says he, shakin' me solemn by the hand, "I wish you the best of luck. If you'll take my advice, though, you won't mention this to anyone else." Oh, no, I didn't. That is, only to Norrie Bagby and one or two others that I managed to get a word with on the ride home. Vee was mighty sympathetic about the blisters and the way my back felt.
"You don't know much 'bout West Jersey, or I guess you 'd have heard of her," surmised Bagby. "'T is n't every girl brings her husband a pot of money and nigh thirty thousand acres of land. Folks tell that before the squire got her, the men was about her like " the speaker used a simile too coarse for repetition. "So ho!" said the traveller. "Byllynge, heigh? Now I begin to understand.
And now, squire, since a united land is what we wants, while your daughter gets the tea and a pen to sign the Association, do the thing up handsome by singing us the liberty song." "Burn me if I will," cried the owner of Greenwood, like many another yielding big points without much to-do, but obstinate over the small ones. "Is that tar about melted?" inquired Bagby.
Near the river the soil was moreover swampy and the brakes were for the most part impenetrable. On the high bluff opposite, masked by the trees, stood Bee with the brigades of Debray and Terrell, Major with his two brigades under Baylor and Bagby, and the twenty-four guns of McMahon, Moseley, West, and Nettles.
Meredith was entirely recovered, or any news of the squire had reached the household, fresh trouble was upon them. Captain Bagby and two other men drove up the third morning after the incursion, and, without going through the. form of knocking, came into the parlour. "You'll get ready straight off to go to Philadelphia," the officer announced. "For what?" demanded Mrs. Meredith.
"Nine thousand pounds," instantly offered Bagby. "Five hunded more," rejoined Hennion. "Ten thousand," snapped Joe. "Five hunded more," snarled his rival bidder. "Eleven thousand," came Joe's counter bid. "Thirteen thousand." "And five hundred." "Fifteen thousand." Bagby hesitated, scowling, then said, "Sixteen thousand." "Seventeen." "Seventeen, five."
But no one seemed to notice these peculiarities by eye or speech, nor was their gaiety assumed; it was with some the gradual contempt of hardship brought about by use and with others the temporary rebound from long depression. "Come," said Talbot to his friend, "you must meet the celebrities. Here's George Bagby, our choicest humourist; Trav.
"Then he's all right on he belongs to the popular party?" "Not he!" cried several. "He was agin the Association, tried tew prevent our sendin' deputies tew Congress, an' boasts that tea 's drunk at his table," said the landlord. "'T won't be for long," growled Bagby. "Then how comes it that ye elect him Assemblyman?" "'T is his tenants do it," spoke up the lawyer.
There stand the precious pair who have done more to foment disloyalty than any other two men in the county." It is needless to say that Mr. Meredith was pointing at Squire Hennion and Bagby, who, more curiously than wisely, had lingered at the tavern.
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