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'Never see sech a beauty! Beats the world, said Uncle Eb in a whisper, whereat both David and Elizabeth shook their heads. 'Lord o' mercy! Don't let her know it, Elizabeth answered, in a low tone. 'She's beginning to have-' Just then Hope came by us leading her pet filly that had been born within the month. Immediately Mrs Brower changed the subject.
Brower plumped her chickens into the oven, and wiped the flour from her cheek and sighed. "There will be no end of fuss in getting you ready, and expense too. What are you going to wear, anyway?" "Mother," said Jennie, impressively, turning away from her squash to get a view of her mother's face, "I ought to have a new dress for this party. I haven't anything fit to be seen.
The Brower house was alight in every window, and there was the sound of many voices in the hall. The door flew open upon a laughing crowd of boys and girls. Peggy, all glowing and rosy with the wind, stood utterly bewildered until Esther rushed forward and hugged and shook her. "It's a party!" she exclaimed. "One of your mother's waffle suppers! We're all here! Isn't it splendid?"
The lamp had been overturned in the struggle, and at the last, darkness reigned supreme. "I've fixed him, Professor," growled Nick Brower, in a savage undertone. "I hope so, the devil. He went for me with the venom of a tiger. Have you a match?" "Yes." "Let's have a light. I'm afraid you have done a miserable job, Nick."
Dierich made up to them. "Too late!" they cried; "too late! He is gone." "Gone? How long?" "Scarce five minutes. Cursed chance!" "You must go back to the burgomaster at once," said Dierich Brower. "To what end?" "No matter; come!" and he hurried them to the Stadthouse. Ghysbrecht Van Swieten was not the man to accept a defeat. "Well," said he, on hearing the ill news, "suppose he is gone.
'Mr Brower will be tired out, but perhaps the young people may go, she said, looking at Hope and me. My heart gave a leap as I saw in Hope's eyes a reflection of my own joy. In a moment she came and gave her mother a sounding kiss and asked her what she should wear. 'I must look my best, mother, she said. 'My child, said the elder, 'it's what you do and not what you wear that's important.
But even as the mule, urged suddenly by Martin's heel, scattered the flints with his hind hoofs ere he got into a canter, and even as Gerard withdrew his foot from Ghysbrecht's throat to run, Dierich Brower and his five men, who had come back for orders, and heard the burgomaster's cries, burst roaring out of the coppice on them.
Provisions exceedingly ordinary, pork very rusty, biscuit bad. Capt. Travis, Capt. Chatham and others brought out of dungeon. Two prisoners from Jersey, viz: Thomas Campbell of Newark and Joralemon. Troops returned from Jersey. Several prisoners brought to Provost viz: Capt. Varick, Wm. Prevost Brower, etc. Seventeen prisoners from Long Island. Nothing material.
Dwight Brower was summoned, too, from his room; and his mother, who had just realized the strangeness of his absence, looked up as he came in, and said: "Are you sick to-day, Dwight?" "No, ma'am," he answered. And something in his voice made her look again; and something in his face made her keep looking, with a perplexed, half-awed air. What had happened to Dwight?
"Poor pa; it can't be so serious as that," the listener thought he understood her to say. "I've heard of bromine," said Brower. "That's simpler, isn't it and safer?" Jane's voice had ceased, and silence maintained its sway within. "She will meet all his family," the old gentleman went on. "She seems to expect to find them very fine people finer than any we have here.
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