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She put them all with tender painstaking into a quaint little carpetbag. When the work was done she set the bag away out of sight, and went about packing her own things in the old valise. The day before, she had been to see the minister and the minister's wife. She called for them both, and sat down gravely and made her proposition.
After loading up at the store, Lem Hallowell, instead of heading for Brampton, drove to the tannery house, left his horses standing as he ran in, and presently emerged with a little cowhide trunk that bore the letter W. Following the trunk came a radiant Cynthia, following Cynthia, Jethro Bass in a stove-pipe hat, with a carpetbag, and hobbling after Jethro, Ephraim Prescott, with another carpet-bag.
Take the employment offered you, no matter how trifling the wages keep out of harm's way. Good night to you!" So saying, he quickly descended from the roof, and, as he was directing the coachman where to look for his carpetbag, Philip saw three or four well-dressed men make up to him, shake him heartily by the hand, and welcome him with great seeming cordiality. Philip sighed.
During 1868 and 1869 bond issues to the amount of nearly $28,000,000 were authorized in North Carolina, but not all of this amount was issued. From the $13,313,000 which was outstanding at the end of the carpetbag regime, the State had received little or no benefit. Interest was not paid upon this sum or upon the previous issues, and the total debt increased rapidly.
How der flute does luf to blay me! Id peen der grandest instrument dot efer found me der vorld in." Several of the party had followed Frank down the steps and surrounded Dunnerwurst. They greeted him warmly, seizing his hand and shaking it. But suddenly the Dutchman caught sight of Gallup. With a whoop of joy, he grabbed up his carpetbag and started for the Vermonter.
The increase in the total debt of the seceding States had been enormous. In proportion to the total wealth of these States, this debt was extremely high. Texas had practically no debt when it passed under Reconstruction government, but added $4,500,000 in the period. Not all of this increase was due to carpetbag government.
"He's a little too smart sometimes," returned our hero. "I gave him my carpetbag to carry this morning, and he ran away with it." Mrs. Malone's face fell at this unexpected intelligence. "Shur an' it was a mistake of his," she said. "He's too honest entirely to stale the value of a pin, let alone a carpetbag." Meanwhile Jim was rapidly reviewing the situation.
The election of Tillman as Governor and then as Senator was a real revolution, for South Carolina had been long represented in the United States Senate by Wade Hampton and Matthew C. Butler, both distinguished soldiers and representatives of the old régime. Hampton, under whose leadership the carpetbag government had been overthrown, had been a popular idol.
We will send for your carpetbag after supper." Squire Leech was a covetous man. He had a passion for money-making and he had availed himself of all the opportunities which the country afforded. He had about as much property as his friend. He began to think he had been plodding along in a very slow, unsatisfactory manner.
"That's all," she heard through the daze and dizziness, "except that I can't tell when I'll be back. It ain't decided. Likely I shan't be able there won't be much chance to write, and you needn't expect me to. No need to write me either. That's all, I guess." The stage that came for Aunt Olivia dropped the little carpetbag and Rebecca Mary at the minister's.
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