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Updated: May 25, 2025
"I promised to walk with Laura Wykoff, ma, and am going to call for her." "I was just going to send for you to dress for a walk with me; I want to make a call to-day on Madame Boyer. And this afternoon I am to spend with Mrs. Claxton and her five daughters, and you must go along, of course. So you will have to postpone your walk with Laura today."
'How much? asked Miss Levering. 'What you like, she answered. Miss Levering took her change out in information. 'Can you tell me who the speakers are? 'Oh, yes. The haggard face brightened before the task. 'That one is the famous Miss Claxton. 'With her face screwed up? 'That's because the sun is in her eyes. 'She isn't so bad-looking, admitted Mrs. Fox-Moore.
Away across the broad surface a line of sparkling foam marked the fringe of the ocean, which stretched away to the horizon. A mile or two to the eastward of her Kate saw some sign of houses, and a blue smoke which flickered up into the air. This she guessed to be the fishing village of Lea Claxton, which the driver had mentioned the night before.
A shortage of men was nothing new to the ladies of this community. Rather, being a cattle-raising country, it was a thing to be expected at any time in spring or fall; and when Claxton Road did enumerate its full quota of husbands, fathers, and brothers, many of them were liable to be absent from Chautauqua. Always with good excuse, however.
It seemed for a time as if it were only a dream. I need not say how sincerely I repented of what I had done, nor how I earnestly promised my husband never again to contract a debt of even a dollar without his knowledge. I hope," added Mrs. Claxton, "that you have not yet been influenced by my advice and example; and I come thus early to speak in your ears a word of caution.
Wilson declared, that his ship was as well fitted out, and the crew and slaves as well treated, as anybody could reasonably expect. He would now go to another ship. That, in which Mr. Claxton sailed as a surgeon, afforded a repetition of all the horrid circumstances which had been described.
'It hasn't ever occurred to you to ask? The face turned to her with a half roguish smile. 'Oh, I thought you looked all right. 'I'm the person who had the interview with your friend, Miss Claxton. As no recollection showed in the face, 'At Queen Anne's Gate, she added. 'I don't think I knew about that, said Ernestine, absently.
Claxton remarked to her daughter when the school question was up, and when the latter deplored the unchaperoned condition of her young friend, she added, "That was the way in Virginia. A girl had a lot of beaux and she got no harm from it, if she were a good girl." Milly was a good girl without any doubt, astonishing as it may seem.
He wrote: ‘As soon as the Yare has passed Claxton, it takes a turn to the south, that it may descend more gently into the sea, by which means it makes a sort of little tongue or slip of land, washt on one side by itself, on the other side by the sea.
Miss Claxton smiled a scornful little smile. 'And the other one said, "It would have been very good for a man. And personally," he said, "I don't know many men who could have kept that crowd in hand for two hours." That's what two men thought of it. She made no answer. 'It doesn't seem to me possible that your speakers average as good as those I heard on Sunday.
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