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For fifteen minutes the doctors were alone in Bascom's room, and then Doctor Field called Maxwell in and quietly informed him that the warden had lost so much blood from the wound in the wrist that there was danger of immediate collapse unless they resorted to extreme measures, and bled some one to supply the patient. To this Maxwell instantly replied: "I am strong and well.
I shall call on every one at that meetin' to pay up; and I shall begin with the poorest, and end up" she fixed Bascom's eye, significantly "with the richest.
Her needles had been flashing lightning, and truth to tell, Bascom, for all he dreaded Hepsey's sharp tongue as nothing else in Durford, had been unable to keep his eyes off those angry bits of sparkling steel. Suddenly they stopped dead. The knitting fell into Hepsey's lap, and she sat forward a pair of kindly, moist eyes searching the depths of Bascom's, as he looked up at her.
There isn't a thing I could think of, in the line of a real expensive sacrifice, that'd measure up as compensation for winnin' out not even marryin' you, Jonathan Jackson." So Hepsey laid down lines for control of the meeting, ready with a different variety of expedients, from point to point in its progress, as Sylvester Bascom's attitude at the time might necessitate.
"Why, some days it rains up here, but I can sit at my window and look down the valley, to where the creek runs through, and 'way up into the timber, and the sight of all those green things, livin' and noddin' in the rain is a long ways from being disheartenin', and when the sun shines I can sit out here, in my garden, with my flowers, and watch the boys playin' down in the meadow, Bascom's Holsteins grazin' over there on the hill, and the air full of the perfume of growin' things, they 'aint got anything like that, in New York."
The necessary instruments were brought, and then the three men entered the sick room. In about twenty minutes Maxwell came out of the invalid's room, assisted by Doctor Field, and stretched himself on the bed. Bascom's color began slowly to return; his pulse quickened, and Dr.
"It's a little early to talk about the make-up of committees. I hope to be able to get at them by Sunday. You may be sure I'll do my best for you." "We'd better make a note of it," said Mr. Crewe; "give me some paper," and he was reaching around behind General Doby for one of the precious sheets under Mr. Bascom's hat, when the general, with great presence of mind, sat on it.
Let me show you that green that came in yesterday. I said the minute I clapped my eyes on it that it was just the color for you, with your brown hair and all." And we end by deciding on the green. The girls at Bascom's are not gossips they are too busy for that but they may be said to be delightfully well informed.
Tooting's to recognize them as such for they wear no uniforms. Still other scouts conduct some of the gentlemen who have talked with Mr. Botcher up the stairs to a mysterious room on the second floor. Mr. Tooting discovers that the room is occupied by the Honourable Brush Bascom; Mr. Tooting learns with indignation that certain of these guests of Mr. Bascom's are delegates pledged to Mr.
"O dear me!" said Phronsie, in distress. "Dear, dear!" echoed Polly, vainly trying to induce the child next to the baby to get into her lap; "something must be done. Oh, don't you want to hear about a funny cat, children? I'm going to tell them about Grandma Bascom's, Jasper," she said, seeing the piteous look in Phronsie's eyes.
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