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And so it came about, just as Bowen knew it would, that all the money and influence of the Prior family could not help the murderer, and he was sentenced to be hanged on September 21, at 6 A.M. And thus public opinion was satisfied. But the moment the sentence was announced, and the fate of the young man settled, a curious change began to be noticed in public opinion.
It was quite the most wonderful meal I had eaten since I quit the Toreador and Bowen J. Tyler's colored chef, who could make pork-chops taste like chicken, and chicken taste like heaven. After dinner I rolled a cigaret and stretched myself at ease upon a pile of furs before the doorway, with Ajor's head pillowed in my lap and a feeling of great content pervading me.
Although many men were falling they pressed slowly forward, and Grant brought up help for them too. For a long time the struggle was carried on. It was one of the little battles of the war, but its results were important and few were fought with more courage and resolution. Bowen, with only eight thousand against twenty thousand, held fast throughout all the long hot hours of the afternoon.
Peter Van Degen was saying, in her slightly drawling voice. "He's doing everybody this year, you know " "As if that were a reason!" Undine heard Mrs. Fairford breathe to Mr. Bowen; who replied, at the same pitch: "It's a Van Degen reason, isn't it?" to which Mrs. Fairford shrugged assentingly. "That delightful Popple he paints so exactly as he talks!" the white-haired lady took it up.
Bowen was even livelier than the young girl. Her carriage was one of the few private equipages that drove up to Madame Uccelli's door; most people had not even come in a remise, but, after the simple Florentine fashion, had taken the little cabs, which stretched in a long line up and down the way; the horses had let their weary heads drop, and were easing their broken knees by extending their forelegs while they drowsed; the drivers, huddled in their great-coats, had assembled around the doorway to see the guests alight, with that amiable, unenvious interest of the Italians in the pleasure of others.
They had not lighted the lamps because of the mosquitoes, and they had talked till her head dropped against his shoulder. Mrs. Bowen came in to get her. "Why, is she asleep?" "Yes. Don't take her yet," said Colville. Mrs. Bowen rustled softly into the chair which Effie had left to get into Colville's lap.
Quietly opening the window, she leant out gazing at the moonlight, as foolish girls will yet who does not remember, half pathetically, those dear old follies! "Heigho! I wonder what will be the end of it all!" said Agatha Bowen; without specifying what the pronoun "it" alluded to. But she stopped, hearing a footstep rather policeman-like passing up and down the railing under the trees.
The other officers of the company were First-Lieutenant James A. Hardie, and afterward Haekaliah Brown. New horses had just been purchased for the battery, and we were preparing for work, when the mail brought the orders announcing the passage of the bill increasing the Commissary Department by four captains, to which were promoted Captains Shiras, Blair, Sherman, and Bowen.
"And I wouldn't even shake hands with him when he was going; I " "Oh, I don't see how you could be so hard!" cried Imogene. She put up her hands to her face, and broke into tears. Mrs. Bowen watched her, dry eyed, with her lips parted, and an intensity of question in her face. "Imogene," she said at last, "I wish you to promise me one thing." "Yes." "Not to write to Mr. Colville again."
Bowen the widow: her eyes were bloodshot and swollen, her nose was red, her lips tremulous, her whole face stained and washed with tears, and the skin seemed wrinkled by their salt floods. She had cried herself sick, more over Josephine than Frank, as was natural. It was but a short drive over to my house, but an utterly silent one.
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