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And you will tell him the truth." "Yes, yes. But about the letter?" "If he wants the letter, he must come back here, and get it from Me." With those words she limped off on the way to Cobb's Hole. The detective-fever burnt up all my dignity on the spot. I followed her, and tried to make her talk. All in vain. It was my misfortune to be a man and Limping Lucy enjoyed disappointing me.
I never gave an order at the grocer's in my life no, indeed I never did. Mother and Cissy have always looked after that. And I want to learn about housekeeping; you promised to teach me. Emmeline made no mention of Mr. Cobb's call until they reached the house. 'He came here! Louise exclaimed, reddening. 'What impudence! I shall at once write and tell him that his behaviour is outrageous.
"The only safety of the South from abolition universal is to be found in an early dissolution of the Union." Only one democrat was found justifying Cobb's opposition to Calhoun and the Southern Convention. Stephens himself, anxious to "stick to the Constitutional Union" reveals in confidential letters to Southern Unionists the rapidly growing danger of disunion.
This exception in his favor, however, had never crippled Cobb's independence nor stifled his fearlessness in expressing his views on any one of the leading topics of the day. The Vermonter had worked with his hands when a boy on his father's farm, and believed in the dignity of labor and the blessings of self-support.
Certain officers have certain salutes. The President has, I think, twenty-one guns, while the Commander-in-Chief has thirteen, and so on. Wofford's Georgia regiment was on the right, then Barksdale's Mississippi, Kershaw's South Carolina and Cobb's Georgia constituted McLaws' division. The column wheeled by companies into line and took up the march of review.
Even Amos Cobb came to look him over, a courtesy which pleased Richard who greatly admired the Vermonter, and who had not hesitated to express his good opinion of him on more than one occasion before his own and Cobb's friends. "A man of force, gentlemen," Richard had said, of great kindness of heart and with a wide range of vision.
It had been arranged over-night with Betteredge, that I was to call for him, on our way to Cobb's Hole, as early as I liked which, interpreted by my impatience to get possession of the letter, meant as early as I could. Without waiting for breakfast at the Farm, I took a crust of bread in my hand, and set forth, in some doubt whether I should not surprise the excellent Betteredge in his bed.
The boarding house plan must stand or fall according to Mr. Cobb's reception of it. "No, no," she said, hastily. "It ain't anything important that is, very important." "Well, all right. You see I only meant excuse me, Mrs. Barnes. I hope you don't think I meant to be nosey or interferin' in your affairs." "Of course I don't.
I'll give you half-a-crown if you'll teach me." Tom Cobb's clear blue eyes sparkled at the thought of half-a-crown, but he hesitated. He knew the Twins; he knew that with them a little knowledge was a dangerous thing for others. He foresaw trouble for the sacred bird; he foresaw trouble for his natural foes, the gamekeepers. He did not foresee trouble for the Twins; he knew them.
The signal-officer at Cobb's Hill reported, at half-past eleven A.M., that a cavalry column had passed that point from Richmond towards Petersburg, taking forty minutes to pass. "U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
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