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The Squire came out of the mill, whither he had been to say a good word to Jerome, and stood by Martin Cheeseman. "Lord," he said, "think of the work those trees had to grow, and the fight they made for their lives, and then along comes a man with an axe, and breaks in a minute what he can never make nor mend! What d'ye mean by it, eh?" Martin Cheeseman looked at him with shrewd, twinkling eyes.
"In where?" replied the aggravating Brown, shouldering his way in at the gate and intoxicated with his own importance. "What are you talking about?" "Why, who's been elected for Shellport? Is Pony in?" shouted the boys, impatiently. "Pony!" rejoined Brown, half-contemptuously, "do you suppose they'd have an old stick like him!" "What," exclaimed Merrison. "Is Cheeseman in after all, then?" "Eh?"
Bubb, and that lady's voice summoned her to descend. "Are you alone?" asked Miss Sparkes sharply. "There's only Mrs. Cheeseman." Polly went down into the kitchen, where Mrs. Cheeseman, a stout woman of slatternly appearance, was sitting with her legs crossed and a plate of shrimps in her lap. "Have a srimp, Polly?" began Mrs. Bubb, anxious to dismiss the memory of recent discord. "Thank you, Mrs.
I was quite as glad to see them as the rest were, and was quite as familiar with them in a moment. "Only a fortnight now," said Old Cheeseman, "to the holidays. Who stops? Anybody?" A good many fingers pointed at me, and a good many voices cried "He does!" For it was the year when you were all away; and rather low I was about it, I can tell you. "Oh!" said Old Cheeseman.
All our fellows' hearts beat fast when the Reverend came in, and made a sort of a Roman, or a Field Marshal, of himself with the ruler; as he always did before delivering an address. But their fears were nothing to their astonishment when he came out with the story that Old Cheeseman, "so long our respected friend and fellow- pilgrim in the pleasant plains of knowledge," he called him O yes!
Roxy, forgetting that these two had never met before, slipped away and left them. They looked at each other. "How do you do, Mrs. Strang?" spoke Emeline. "How do you do, Miss Cheeseman?" spoke Mary French. "Will you sit down on this log?" "Thank you." Mary French had more flesh and blood than Emeline.
Whatever you do is for the good of Springhaven, which belonged to my family for centuries before those new-fangled Darlings came. And, Cheeseman, you may trust to the honour of the Carnes not to grind down a poor man who has his way to make. Them were his words, sir; how well I recollect them!" "Too well almost," replied the young man, coldly, "considering how scanty was your memory just now.
Poor Lawkins retired, and the assembly, being warned by his awful example, heard the doctor out without further interruption. "Mr Cheeseman writes as follows: "`Dear Dr Patrick, I hope I need no apology for writing to you on a matter affecting the boys under your charge.
The First, commanded by Colonel S. G. Hicks, was composed of the Fortieth Illinois, Forty-sixth Ohio, and Morton's Indiana Battery, on the boats Sallie List, Golden Gate, J. B. Adams, and Lancaster. The Second Brigade, Colonel D. Stuart, was composed of the Fifty-fifth Illinois, Seventy-first Ohio, and Fifty-fourth Ohio; embarked on the Hannibal, Universe, Hazel Dell, Cheeseman, and Prairie Rose.
At this Cheeseman and Drummond laughed and even the thoughtful Mr. Lawerence smiled. Though soothsayers in those days were not generally gainsaid, those four men at Drummond's house lived in advance of their age. "Go on your voyage and save the sum in jeopardy," was Drummond's advice. "If your going will make sure the sum, hesitate not a single moment," interposed Cheeseman.
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