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The "nicest" people sent cups to engaged girls, the "nicest" people sent their cards innocent of scribbled messages. The Misses Saunders, the Harvey Brocks, the George Chickerings, Mr. Peter Coleman, Mr. Jerome Phillips, Mrs. Six weeks five weeks three weeks to the wedding, sang Julia's heart; the time ran away.
These are the men who are publicly useful, and whom the necessities of the age supply, as to whom I have never ceased to wonder that stones of such strong calibre should be so quickly worn down to the shape and smoothness of rounded pebbles. Such have been to me the Brocks and the Mildmays, about whom I have written with great pleasure, having had my mind much exercised in watching them.
When Lee and his veterans were holding back Grant and the Union Army at the Wilderness, Brocks Cross Roads, and Spottsylvania C.H., Beauregard with a handful of veterans and a few State troops was "bottling up Butler" on the James. What Kershaw had been to Lee at the Wilderness, McGowan at Spottsylvania, General Hagood was to General Beauregard on the south side around Petersburg.
The BURGHS of Scotland, the NURHAGS of the island of Sardinia, the TALAYOTI of the Balearic Isles, the CASTELLIERI of Istria, are all ancient witnesses of the modes of building employed in the most remote ages. BURGHS, BROCKS, or BROUGHS are numerous in Scotland, and also in the islands of the Atlantic.
I have six terriers at hame, forbye twa couple of slow-hunds, five grews, and a wheen other dogs. There's auld Pepper and auld Mustard, and young Pepper and young Mustard, and little Pepper and little Mustard. I had them a' regularly entered, first wi' rottens, then wi' stots or weasels, and then wi' the tods and brocks, and now they fear naething that ever cam wi' a hairy skin on't.
When Brother Brock resumed his place on the driver's seat and Sister Brock had ascended to hers with the cacklings of a hen who had been rudely snatched from her nest, and all the medium-sized and little Brocks were safely bestowed beside her, we drove on at a funeral's pace behind them. The bay was grossly insulted, but it was the only mark of humility left within our reach.
Taking her home at nine o' clock, Peter told her that he was planning a short visit to Honolulu with the Harvey Brocks. "Gee, I wish you were going along!" he said. "Wouldn't it be fun!" Susan agreed. "Well, say! Mrs. Brock would love it " he began eagerly. "Oh, Peter, don't talk nonsense!" Susan felt, at a moment like this, that she actually disliked him.
"Vera Brock?" she said, dreamily, with politely elevated brows. "Well, of course, I don't take the Brocks seriously " Emily began, reddening. "Well, I should hope you wouldn't, Baby!" answered the older sister, promptly and forcibly. "Don't make an UTTER fool of yourself!"
The old plow-horses plunged feebly, then lowered their heads in native dejection, while the Brocks shrieked, root and branch.
I reminded him how all the island would rise against him worse than it did against you, Martin and he declared he did not care a fig for the island! I asked him how he would face the Careys, and the Brocks, and the De Saumarez, and all the rest of them, and he snapped his fingers at them all. Oh, he must be going out of his mind." I shook my head.
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