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He had already noted Henry's good English, and, feeling the compelling gaze of one who was born to be a master, he replied, sincerely and cheerfully: "Yes, the son of a gentleman, and a gentleman yourself." "An' I'm a gentleman too," said Shif'less Sol. "My good rifle says so every time." "It was the power of earlier weapons that started the line of gentlemen," said Cawthorne.
"I wish you both long life and prosperity, and may Heaven's blessing fall upon you." "Back to the 'Cawthorne," said Quincy, as he pressed a small roll of paper into the chauffeur's hand which roll of paper a friendly street light showed to be a five dollar bill. "What will that horrid Mr. Cass say?" "I'll fix him," replied Quincy. "Just await developments, patiently, my dear."
He knew well enough what it cost him to make the suggestion, which the good sense of them all must approve. Not only did Little Cawthorne always sacrifice himself, which is merely good breeding, but he made opportunities to do so, which is both well-bred and virtuous.
Egg sandwiches will never stimulate him now." St. George joined in the relieved laugh that followed. They were remembering his young Sing Sing convict who had completed his sentence in time to step in a cab and follow his mother to the grave, where his stepfather refused to have her coffin opened. And St. "Hi, you!" said Little Cawthorne, who was born in the South, "this is a mellow minute.
Since we can't hold you a prisoner now, we release you. It's likely that you don't know your way to your own camp, but your red comrade here will guide you. My friend didn't break his skull, when he struck him with the butt of his rifle, though it was a shrewd blow. He's coming to." Cawthorne looked down at the reviving savage, and then looked up to thank the foresters, but they were gone.
Wilberforce moved on the 4th of February in the House of Commons, that a committee be appointed to examine further witnesses in behalf of the abolition of the Slave Trade, This motion was no sooner made, than Mr. Cawthorne rose, to our great surprise, to oppose it. He took upon himself to decide that the House had heard evidence enough. This indecent motion was not without its advocates. Mr.
Cawthorne, the great Turf man, inherited a portrait of him from his father the doctor.
Early in spring he paid a visit to London, bringing the proof of his satire to the publisher, Cawthorne. From St. James's Street he writes to Mrs.
And there was Bennietod, with an edge of an old horse pistol showing beneath his cuff; and, round-eyed and alert as a bird newly alighted on a stranger sill, Little Cawthorne stood; and the sight put strength into St. George, and so did Little Cawthorne's words: "I didn't know whether they'd let us in or not," he said, "unless we had on a plaited décolletté, with biases down the back."
Little Cawthorne pounded on the table. "Where do I come in?" he wailed. "But no, all I get is another wad o' woe." "What do you say, Mr. Chillingworth?" St. George asked eagerly. "I don't know," said Chillingworth, meditatively turning his glass. "St. George is rested and fresh, and he feels the story. And Amory here, touch glasses with me." Amory obeyed.
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