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It'll hurt you." Shelby eyed him shrewdly. "You read speeches in Washington that I wrote," he reminded. "That's different. Lots of congressmen do that, even senators. They're not posted on everything." "No," Shelby agreed, with an irony too subtle for Bowers; "they certainly are not. However, there's no need to borrow trouble over this thing.
In half an hour Bowers, who was expecting them, completed the quartet. It was an unusual group that gathered that night in the dining room. Ardswell and Weatherby had spent a week in Philadelphia before Wimperley telegraphed Clark to come down. The story was plain enough. The two Englishmen had come from London to hear it, and it was told well.
As he sat down to extract it, he considered whether it would be advisable to pound Dibert to a jelly when he found him or wait until they got a herder to replace him. The man's horse and saddle were missing in camp, Bowers discovered, so it was fairly safe to assume that he was over visiting Neifkins's herder.
Flags of all nations and strips of coloured bunting draped the rafters; greens from the Sausalito Hills framed the windows and doors; huge oiled Chinese lanterns swayed from the roofs. The floor shone like glass. At either end bowers of green half concealed the orchestras two of them, that the music might never cease. The side rooms were set for refreshments. Many chairs lined the walls.
#Simon Patrick# , #Robert Grove# , #John Williams# , #Thomas Manningham# , #Thomas Bowers# , and #Edward Waddington# served in the episcopate successively. He wasted some of his time in useless controversy, and, as the Duke of Marlborough's chaplain, made his office cheap, though perhaps popular, by occasionally dilating in his sermons upon the genius and military skill of his patron.
But Kate ignored, then forgot them, until Bowers, working at that end of the corral, came back and jerked his thumb over his shoulder: "That feller wants to speak to you." Kate looked up impatiently, hesitated, wiped her face on the sleeve of her forearm and walked over without great alacrity.
Taylor looked as if she was not only about to forget that she was a saint but a lady, while Teeters had a sensation of being rent by feline claws. It seemed like a direct intervention of Providence when Bowers hung out of the door of the wagon and called excitedly: "I believe he's goin'!" The exigencies of the moment, and curiosity, combined to make Mrs.
But the growth of trees and bushes which revealed itself at every step was beyond all expectation; sun-proof and moon-proof bowers vaulted the walks, and the walls of the house were uniformly bearded with creeping plants as high as the first-floor windows.
Bowers obeyed, Bob approached the wheels of the buggy in a manner half shy, half mysterious. "You wanter buy them Summit woods, mister?" "Well, per'aps, sonny. Why?" smiled Mr. Bowers. "Coz I'll tell ye suthin'. Don't you be fooled into allowin' that Cynthia wrote that po'try. She didn't no more'n Eunice nor me. Mar kinder let ye think it, 'cos she don't want folks to think SHE did it.
And no one could remain in ignorance of this triumph, for from every part of the garden the royal tent could be seen, being erected upon a slight eminence. It was like a scene from fairyland. There were rushing cascades, beautiful marble statues, arbors and bowers, in which were birds of every color from every clime.
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