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I have a couple of night watchmen patrolling the road, above and below. I'll phone to the agency to send me half a dozen more, to clear the grounds. I'd phone the police about it, but I don't like " "Don't like to lock the stable door after the horse is stolen?" suggested Brice. "Man, get it into that thick skull of yours that the time for secrecy is past! Your game is up. Hade is dead.
The crowd, of course, indulged in roars of laughter, and even Stephen could not repress a smile, a smile not without bitterness. Then he wheeled to face Mr. Jerkins. Out of respect for the personages involved, the auctioneer had been considerately silent daring the event. It was Mr. Brice who was now the centre of observation. Come, gentlemen, come, this here's a joke eight twenty-five.
Miss Crane's boarding-house is not an interesting place, and the tempest in that teapot is better imagined than described. Out of consideration for Mr. Stephen Brice, we shall skip likewise a most affecting scene at Mr. Canter's second-hand furniture store. That afternoon Stephen came again to the dirty flight of steps which led to Judge Whipple's office.
Who do you think, but Stephen Brice! So now Pa knows why Mr. Brice hesitated when Pa asked him to go up the river, and then consented. This is not the end. Yesterday, when I went in to see Mrs. Brice, a new black silk was on her bed, and as long as I live I shall never forget how sweet was her voice when she said, 'It is a surprise from my son, my dear.
I had also for a neighbor in the same village of St. Brice, the bookseller Guerin, a man of wit, learning, of an amiable disposition, and one of the first in his profession. He brought me acquainted with Jean Neaulme, bookseller of Amsterdam, his friend and correspondent, who afterwards printed Emilius. I had another acquaintance still nearer than St.
For a brief second he eyed the lieutenant. "Get back to your regiment, Brice, if you want to go," he said. Stephen saluted and went out.
That is the red flash far across the black Southern sky. For in our beds are the terrors and cruelties of life revealed to us. There is a demon to be faced, and nought alone. Mrs. Brice was a brave woman. She walked that night with God. Stephen, too, awoke. The lightning revealed her as she bent over him.
Judge Whipple told you to run till you found me, did he, Mr. Brice?" "Yes, sir." "Is the Judge the same old criss-cross, contrary, violent fool that he always was?" Providence put an answer in Stephen's mouth. "He's been very good to me, Mr. Lincoln." Mr. Lincoln broke into laughter. "Why, he's the biggest-hearted man I know. You know him, Oglesby, Silas Whipple.
Clarence was perforce mollified. "Don't go, Jinny," he said beseechingly. "I didn't mean to make you angry " "I can't see why you should always be dragging in this Mr. Brice," she said, almost tearfully. "Jinny, I have been made second lieutenant of Company A." "Oh, Max, I am so glad! I am so proud of you!" "I suppose that you have heard the result of the October elections, Jinny."
Only three years before, when Boston had been aflame over the delivery of the fugitive Anthony Burns, Stephen had gone out of curiosity to the meeting at Faneuil Hall. How well he remembered his father's indignation when he confessed it, and in his anger Mr. Brice had called Phillips and Parker "agitators."
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