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I don't know anything about any letters and as far as that goes, do you think I've lived here fourteen years to get into the wrong room at night? If I'd wanted to get into your room, I'd have found your room, not Miss Cobb's." She sat up and pulled her hat straight, looking me right in the eye.
Moody's indigestion and Miss Cobb's neuralgia." "They won't have indigestion and neuralgia." "Or Amanda King's toothache." "We won't have Amanda King." He put his elbow on the stand and smiled at me. "Listen, Minnie," he said. "If you hadn't been wasting your abilities in the mineral spring, I'd be sorry to close it. But there will be plenty for you to do.
Will you be a real lady passenger, or will ye sit up in front with me?" Emotions of various sorts were all struggling together in the old man's face, and the two or three bystanders were astounded when they saw the handsome, stately girl fling herself on Mr. Cobb's dusty shoulder crying like a child. "Oh, uncle Jerry!" she sobbed; "dear uncle Jerry!
So Thankful was obliged to promise, and the following morning she drove George Washington over the long road, now wet and soggy from the rain, to Trumet. Mr. Solomon Cobb's "henhouse" looked quite as dingy and dirty as when she visited it before. Solomon himself was just as shabby and he pulled at his whiskers with his accustomed energy. "Hello!" he said, peering over his spectacles.
The enemy opened upon us a terrific fire, both from the columns in front and from the sharpshooters in the housetops in the city. After giving us battle as long as human endurance could bear the ordeal, they, like their companions before them, fled in confusion. Before making the direct attack, Howard attempted a diversion by endeavoring to turn Cobb's left.
"If you'll recall," she said, "I came into the spring-house, and Arabella pulled that garment of Miss Cobb's off a table. It was early nobody was out yet. You were alone, Minnie, or no," she said suddenly, "you were not alone. Minnie, WHO was in the pantry?" "What has that to do with it?" I managed, with my feet as cold as stone. She got up and buttoned her sweater.
And so long as you tell me that you're not interfering I mean, that you don't think it right to set her against me 'I assure you, nothing of the kind. There was a brief silence, then Cobb's voice again sounded with blunt emphasis. 'We're neither of us very good-tempered. We've known each other about a year, and we must have quarrelled about fifty times.
The surveyors gave their bed to mother and me, and the men all crowded down on the floor nineteen in one room. The next morning we drove on to our own house before getting breakfast, glad to find it had not been burned. On Sunday, May 10, 1857, a meeting was held at our house, at which it was agreed that a Sunday-school should be organized the next Sunday, in Mr. Cobb's grove, near Pardee.
Thus Mr. Cobb's assertion, that "we can make better terms out of the Union than in it," was, in the opinion of Alexander H. Stephens, the chief influence which carried Georgia out of the Union. In the main, however, it was the principle of state sovereignty and state patriotism which proved the one entirely trustworthy influence to bring over the reluctant.
Governor Gist's Letter. South Carolina's Complaints and Demands. Return of the Brooklyn. The President's Interview with the South Carolina Delegation. Mr. Buchanan's Truce. Major Buell's Visit to Anderson. The Buell Memorandum. Character of Instructions. Failure of the Concession Policy. Movements towards Secession. Resignation of Secretary Cobb. Cobb's Secession Address.
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