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Updated: May 17, 2025
He's awfully hard hit too, and would be as steady as old time for poor little Con's sake if " "Ah! now I begin to comprehend," Honoria said. "Yes, don't you see, it's a perfectly genuine, for-ever-and-ever-amen sort of business." Lord Shotover leaned back once more, and turned a wonderfully pleasant, if not preeminently responsible, countenance upon his companion.
"Oh, how I wish he'd stop moonshinin' an' sech!" She moved so suddenly on the edge of the precipice, as she lifted her hands and drew down her sunbonnet over her face, that Ben's glance was full of terror. "Move back a mite, Nar'sa; ye'll go over the bluff, fust thing ye know! Yes, Con's mighty wrong ter be moonshinin'. The law is the right thing. It purtects us. It holps us all.
Her days were haunted by apprehensions of that catastrophe, which, however, was not included in the plot of her life's drama. Con's chosen bugbear was the bridge which bestrode the river close by, and beneath the arch of which he had once happened to be while a cart passed overhead. For the lumbering rumble had been an appalling experience, which he shuddered to repeat.
He selected the second, passing under his inspection, and asked her to read it. She took the letter, wondering a little that it should be in Captain Con's handwriting. 'I am to read it through? she said, after a run over some lines. He nodded.
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