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The unexpected meeting between Romer and Gusher threw a shadow over the entertainment, so far as it affected the latter. Here he had been for weeks sounding the trumpet of Mrs. Chapman's ball, and looking forward to it as the means of making a temple of triumph of himself, and captivating no end of female hearts, Mattie's included; but how sadly he was disappointed.
And it's just this clothes part as I can't nowise put up wi', for I'm one as loves a easy life, I am." "And is your life so easy?" inquired Barnabas, eyeing the very small Chapman's very large pack.
But I'll be confounded if I know which is the best! They're both nice girls." "There isn't much choice," Ned replied. "If they were as different, now, as you and me, I'd take the blonde, of course, aw, and you'd take the brunette. But Hattie Chapman's eyes are blue, and her hair isn't black, you know, so you can't call her dark, exactly." "No more than Laura is exactly light.
Angeline was even more troubled than Hanz, and listened with fear and trembling to the words as they fell from Chapman's lips. What could have worked this change in a person who had so recently expressed such friendship for them? Her pure, unsuspecting soul would not permit her to entertain the belief that her husband could do wrong.
Hugh sprang back before his point. Again he rushed and thrust and again Hugh sprang back. A third time and Hugh fairly ran, whereon a shout went up from the Claverings. "The chapman's afraid!" cried one. "Give him a yard measure," shouted another; "he cannot handle steel!" Eve turned her face, and her very eyes were sick with doubt. "Is it true?" she gasped.
Chapman's letter, "the whole family are a strange medley; but I think I can turn their superstitious credulity to good account, in any efforts to learn whether Pattmore poisoned his wife." As soon as possible, I started for Greenville, to see the coroner; on my arrival, I was so fortunate as to meet Mr. Wells, an old friend, who had formerly been sheriff of the county.
She looked sour as verjuice when my mother and Emily entered, and gave them to understand that 'she wasn't used to no strangers in her school, and didn't want 'em. We found that in Chapman's opinion she 'didn't larn 'em nothing. She had succeeded her aunt, who had taught him to read 'right off, but 'her baint to be compared with she. And now the farmers' children, and the little aristocracy, including his own grand-children, all indeed who, in his phrase, 'cared for eddication, went to Wattlesea.
Of course, we can't go to Africa and shoot lions and wart-hogs whatever they may be, and we can't fit out an Arctic exploration party and discover Ingersoll Land or Bush Inlet or Chapman's Passage, but we could have a mighty good time, I'd say, and, even if we didn't have many hair-breadth escapes, I'll bet it would beat chasing tennis balls and doing the Australian crawl and keeping our white shoes and trousers clean!"
This reply was allowed to pass, although my scepticism would have been more satisfactory and more useful if it had been a little more thorough. I was soon taken off the Westminster, and my occupation now was to write Chapman's letters, to keep his accounts, and, most disagreeable, to "subscribe" his publications, that is to say, to call on booksellers and ask how many copies they would take.
You like the Odyssey: did you ever read my "Adventures of Ulysses," founded on Chapman's old translation of it? For children or men. Chapman is divine, and my abridgment has not quite emptied him of his divinity. When you come to town I'll show it you. You have well described your old-fashioned grand paternal hall. Is it not odd that every one's earliest recollections are of some such place?
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