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"Why, it seems that after I left yesterday Settle rode down the valley with Belden's outfit, and they all got to drinking, ending in a row, and Tony beat one of Belden's men almost to death. The sheriff has gone over to get Tony, and the Beldens declare they're going to railroad him. That means we'll all be brought into it.
His voice became level and menacing, as he added: "And I don't intend to have her put in wrong on account of you." Norcross was quick to reply. "Nobody will dare accuse her of wrongdoing. She's a noble girl. No one will dare to criticize her for what she could not prevent." "You don't know the Beldens. My girl's character will be on trial in every house in the county to-morrow.
He wore the dress of a Spanish grandee of the early seventeenth century he recalled the Spaniards as famous explorers. He was in black throughout, save for the white lace of his wide collar and cuffs, and for the dark purple lining of his mantle. If the Beldens, for their part, had costumed themselves half so discreetly, he would never have fallen from their good graces.
He couldn't post an item into a ledger; he couldn't even tie up a pound of tea. He can't work off any of his foreign smartness on me!" Truesdale, readily figured himself the reverse of persona grata to the Beldens, and stayed away; but this did not prevent his reception of advices more or less regular from the heart of the Belden household.
He was afraid to meet the Beldens. He dreaded their questions, their innuendoes.
"Yes, they'll all be there the Hubbards, the Gages, and the whole crowd of Parmelees, and Kittie Corwith and her father, and all the rest, and and the Beldens! The Beldens there!" She turned fiercely on her mother. "What do you think of that?" Eliza Marshall was cut to the quick.
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