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They talked for a long time, but at last, after they were in bed and the lamp was extinguished, Emily said: "I hate to go back and leave you here, Auntie; indeed I do. I shall be so interested and excited I shall scarcely be able to wait for your letters. You will write just as soon as you have seen this Mr. Cobb, won't you?" "Yes, sartin sure I will.
"Does it go yet, Nathan?" interrupted Cobb, who was filling a glass from a decanter which a brown- coated darky had brought him. Cobb's wife was Nathan's cousin, and, therefore, he had a right to be familiar. "I went to see his machine the other day, but I couldn't make anything out of it. Horn is a little touched here, isn't he?" and he tapped his forehead and smiled knowingly.
Cobb, prime factor in the group of Southern moderates as well as Secretary of the Treasury, wrote to Buchanan expressing his satisfaction at the event, mentioning the work of his own department in bringing it about, and also alluding to his arrangements to prevent slave trading off the Florida coast. But the spirit of doubt was strong even among the moderates. Douglas was the target.
" and he's got a female daughter and I didn't know that and he's oh, Gawd! he's sending her out to the Quarter Circle KT!" "How big is she?" Parker whispered. "She's she's twenty-two " "Inches around or what?" Charley gasped. " and Ophelia is coming with her Ophelia Cobb C-o-double-b it is is coming with her for a chaperon " "Great guns!" Skinny breathed," two females!"
The names of Lincoln, Morgan, Knox, Hamilton, Gates, Pinckney, Lee, Carrington, Hand, Muhlenburg, Dayton, Burr, Brooks, Cobb, Smith, as well as the present commander-in-chief, may be mentioned to him, and any others that occur to you. Particularly I wish to have his opinion on the men most suitable for inspector-general, adjutant-general, and quartermaster-general.
The sanatorium business isn't one where you can put your own likes and dislikes against the comfort of the guests. Miss Cobb came out a few minutes after; she had on her new green silk with the white lace trimming. She saw me staring as she threw off her cape and put her curler on the log.
The proceedings were summary. Less successful was Captain Cobb, who had been sent to Chepody to capture the Acadians there. Before his arrival the people had fled to the woods. Three other parties, detached from Fort Cumberland to scour the country in search of stragglers, reported various successes. Major Preble returned the next day with three Acadians, and Captain Perry brought in eleven.
Not till after her actual marriage should the people at home know what had become of her. She was marrying with utter disregard of all her dearest ambitions all the same, she had rather be the wife of Cobb than of anyone else. Her stepfather might recover his old kindness and generosity as soon as he knew she no longer stood in Cissy's way, and that she had never seriously thought of marrying Mr.
Miss Cobb put down her hand-mirror and sniffed. "Well," she said, "goodness knows I'm no trouble maker, but somebody ought to tell that young man a few things. He's forever looking at the thermometer and opening windows. I declare, if I hadn't brought my woolen tights along I'd have frozen to death at breakfast. Everybody's complaining." I put that away in my mind to speak about.
Here the firm remained some years, the book trade steadily increasing, until the old quarters were too strait for its accommodation. In April 1852, Mr. Younglove parted with his entire interest in the concern to his partners, and the firm name of J. B. Cobb & Co. was adopted.
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