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Indeed, this is true of the whole area through which I have traveled. No furniture brings confusion to their rooms, no machinery distresses the ear with its groaning or the eye with its unsightliness, no factories belch out smoke and blacken the beauty of the sky, no trains screech to disturb sleepers and frighten babies.
His transient indisposition served as no warning to the people; neither did the odor of the smoke that they had been forced to shield their noses from. Had they not seen him swallow fire and belch forth smoke? Had they not seen him during the stage of exhilaration? They all wished to pass through a similar experience, but tobacco was scarce and held at a fabulous price.
Who, looking down from some height of land on the morning of the 13th of September, would have dreamed that those stacks of grain, which dotted the fields here and there, would soon become the only protection from the heat of the sun and the storm of battle, to thousands of wounded, bleeding men? or, that from those lovely groves of oak and maple, now reposing like spots of beauty upon the landscape, were to belch forth fire and smoke, carrying destruction to thousands?
Meanwhile the Honorable Budlong Dinks sat in an armchair at the other end of the piazza with several other honorable gentlemen Major Scuppernong from Carolina, Colonel le Fay from Louisiana, Captain Lamb from Pennsylvania, General Arcularius Belch of New York, besides Captain Jones, General Smith, Major Brown, Colonel Johnson, from other States, and several honorable members of Congress, including, and chief of all, the Honorable B.J. Ele, a leading statesman from New York, with whom Mr.
His fat nose glistened for a moment, while his mouth twisted into a smile, and he answered, "They're only for Belch as far as Belch is for them " "Or as far as Belch makes them think he is," answered Abel, smiling. The General smiled too, for he found the game going against him. "We were speaking of your speech," said he. "Now, Newt, the thing's in your own hands. You've a future before you.
He has not the true party feeling. He is not willing to make sacrifices. And yet I think that that perhaps " He looked at General Belch inquiringly. That gentleman turned, beamed approval, and squirted a copious cascade. "Exactly," said Mr. Ele, "I was saying that I think if Mr. Bodkins, who is a perfectly honorable man " "Oh, perfectly; nothing against his character.
At last a third belch, still louder than the two others, threw all present into confusion, and forced me to take flight, followed by all my suite, amid shouts of laughter, all the louder because they had previously been kept in.
Abel looked sleepily round, with his eyes half closed and his under lip hanging. "'Tain't no use," said he, thickly; "'tain't no use." And he leered and laughed. The perspiring and indignant politicians grasped him Slugby and William Condor under the arms, Belch on one side, and Ele ready to help any where.
A fortune was being fired away every hour; a sum which would send a youth for a year to college or bring up a child went into a single large shell which might not have the luck to kill one human being as excuse for its existence; an endowment for a maternity hospital was represented in a day's belch of destruction from a single acre of trodden wheat land.
Some of the yots had a loud shrill whistle, some a little, fine clear one; then one would belch out low and deep some like thunder. And anon our steamer thundered forth its own deep belchin' whistle, and turned round graceful and backed off, and puffed, puffed back agin down the bay. As we turned round, a bystander, standin' by, spoke of Bonnie Castle.
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