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Others took refuge among the rocks of the kopjes and apparently proposed to hold out until dark, and hence the arrival of Lieutenant Barnes demanding reinforcements, 60th Rifles, Mounted Infantry, and anything else, so as to attack these fellows in flank and 'bag the lot. Meanwhile Lord Dundonald had arrived on our hill.
"You haven't a railroad going to every point in Alaska," Barnes pointed out, "there's usually a trip of several hundred miles before you get to the place from which to start. And when are you going to make that journey?" "In the spring," Hamilton said, "as soon as it gets mild." "I reckon you don't know much about Alaska," the older man remarked.
Perhaps it may be well to give here a quotation which I came across years afterwards, as illustrating this process of reasoning from the assumed hypothesis of a divine and infallible revelation, that must be taken as the starting point. It is from Dr. Albert Barnes, a distinguished Presbyterian minister of Philadelphia, about the middle of the last century.
I suppose there were an immense number of people present? 'Yes, and particularly débutantes; there were a great number presented this year. It was considered a large Drawing-Room. 'And how are you presented? I've heard my sister speak about it, but I never quite understood. At that moment Barnes brought in the tea. She set it on a little table used for the purpose.
"I don't know what I should do without you," she said. That evening at supper, Barnes and Mr. Rushcroft, to say nothing of three or four "transients," had great cause for complaint about the service. Miss Tilly was wholly pre-occupied. She was memorising her "part." Instead of asking Mr.
"He is the liveliest liar I've ever known," broke in Barnes quickly. "Don't trust him." "But he is also an Irishman," she said, as if that fact overcame all other shortcomings. "I like him; he must be an honest man, for he has already lied nobly in MY behalf." She smiled as she uttered this quaint anomaly. "Tell me how I can be of service to you," said he, disposing of O'Dowd with a shrug.
The two ladies looked at the Archdeacon the god of their idolatry; then at Daphne. Hurriedly, like birds frightened by a shot, they crossed the room and just touched their hostess's hand; the Archdeacon, making up for their precipitancy by a double dose of dignity, bowed himself out; the door closed behind them. "Daphne! my dear! what is the matter?" cried Lady Barnes, in dismay.
"My sister and I introduced Daphne Floyd to Barnes," he said steadily, "and it is my country, as I hold, or a portion of it that allows these villainies. Some day we shall get a great reaction in the States, and then the reforms that plenty of us are clamouring for will come about.
On our way down the river, Captain Barnes expressed himself extremely obliged to me for taking his vessel, as it had relieved him of a most painful dilemma. He explained that he had been detailed by Admiral Porter to escort the President's unarmed boat, the River Queen, in which capacity it became his special duty to look after Mrs. Lincoln.
I turned on the light, and there was Arabella, half-dragging and half-carrying a solid silver hand-mirror with a card on it: "To Minnie, to replace the one that blew up. Doctor Barnes came to me at the news stand the next morning before gymnasium. "Well," he said, "you look as busy as a dog with fleas. Have you heard the glad tidings?" "What?" I asked without much spirit.
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