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Edgar Allan Poe's "Tales of the Grotesque and the Arabesque," are remarkable for intensity and vividness of conception, combined with a circumstantial invention almost equal to that of Defoe. Mrs. Burnett and Mr. J.W. De Forest are still writing excellent novels of American life; and Mr. Henry James, Jr., is studying that peculiar form of human nature known as the American in Europe.
Then the other whirled about and faced him. "Give it up, did you say?" he asked almost angrily. "Yes, that’s what." For a minute they looked at one another. Then: "I shall never give it up," the lover said very slowly and steadily—"never, until she gives me up." Burnett sucked in his breath with a sudden compression of his lips.
When it was expired, he applied himself to trade with the same diligence, and sometimes went to sea, till in the year '24 he became master of a ship called the Burnett, fitted out by some merchants at Bristol, for South Carolina. In his return from this voyage he committed the murder for which he died. On the 25th April, 1726, an Admiralty Sessions was held at the Old Bailey, before the Hon.
Burnett, that you are a writer." "I? Why, I'm, I'm a lawyer." "Of course, that's business.
Anticipating the time several days, I went as far as Clason's Prairie, and turned aside to assist Brother Holmes, the Pastor of the charge, for a few evenings in a protracted meeting. Returning, I proceeded on my way to Burnett. By arrangement, I met Brother Sampson here, and spent the Sabbath with him, it being his Quarterly Meeting on the Waupun charge. The preachers on the circuit were Revs.
"Ye won't tell nobody he air here?" she gulped. "How long has he been here?" asked Young, instead of answering her question. "Ever since spring," sighed Tessibel. "Was he here that day when Mr. Waldstricker and my sister " "Yep." The girl's whisper was very low. "And when Burnett came too, I suppose?" "Yep, I hid 'im ... Daddy loved 'im, Daddy did." She began to cry softly.
I want to lay smooth—and I stand on my head—all the—" "We’re going back," said Jack, striving to soothe her; "lie still, Aunt Mary, and we’ll soon get there. Do you want some camphor to smell?" "I don’t feel up to smellin’," wailed Aunt Mary, "I don’t feel up to anythin’. Go ’way. Right off." Jack went on deck. He found Burnett stretched pale and green upon the chairs their lady guest had vacated.
For they were battered, and bruised, and chipped away in splinters, so that they looked very old indeed, though, as my uncle told me, there was not one there more than five years old, though they might have been fifty. Every one had painted upon it in large white letters: "Dr Burnett, FZS, London," and I wondered what FZS might mean.
"No," he said at last, his voice painfully steady; "I didn’t know it." Burnett laughed heartlessly, hauling forth his apparel with a refined cruelty which took careful heed of possible interfolded shoes or cravats. "She married an Englishman when she was nineteen years old," he said. "That was when they sent me to Eton that little while,—until I drove the horse through the drug shop.
Aren't you tired?" "Not at all. Everybody is very kind, and some are very amusing. I am learning a great deal," and there was a quizzical look in her eyes, "about the world." "Well," said Philip, "t's all here." "I suppose so. But do you know," and there was quite an ingenuous blush in her cheeks as she said it, "it isn't half so nice, Mr. Burnett, as a picnic in Zoar." "So you remember that?"
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