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Being returned to Fort Conger, he was not restored to his rank, and remained as Juet remained after being superseded a malcontent. One of the commentators on the expedition thus has summarized the conditions of that dreadful winter of 1883-84: "It was now October, and the situation of the explorers was becoming desperate, but the bickerings seem to have increased with their peril.
"Yes, it is something like that, Rodd," said the doctor; "but no conger eel could be as large as that, and really I don't know." "Sea-sarpint, sir," whispered Joe Cross to Rodd, and looking longingly at the glass the while. "Nonsense!" cried Rodd. "Here, you have a look, Joe," and he passed the glass to the sailor. "Now then," he said, "what do you make of it?" "I say sea-sarpint, sir."
Even the fading light could not kill his rufous face. The big man appeared friendly, though Brendon heartily wished him away. "Sea fishing's my sport," he said. "Conger and cod, pollack and mackerel half a boat load that's sport. That means tight lines and a thirst afterward." "I expect it does." "But this bally place seems to bewitch people," continued the big man. "What is it about Dartmoor?
But you might at least hear me through before you talk about conscience. Perhaps even your conscience would not take offense at my plan, unless you consider yourself foreordained to go to penitentiary." "Let's hear your plan, Mr. Conger," said Charlton, hoping there might be some way found by which he could escape. Mr.
One incident is recalled, however, when the tables were turned against the Speaker, no one joining more heartily than himself in the laugh that followed. Mr. Conger, of Michigan, with great earnestness and persistency, was urging the consideration of a resolution which the Speaker had repeatedly declared out of order. By no means disconcerted by the decision, Mr.
The Speaker was surrounded by Anthony, Morrill, Allison, Conger, and other leading Republicans. On the opposite side was Davis, of West Virginia, with a snowy white spot on his dark chin beard. Wade Hampton's military waxed moustache and haughty countenance was beside the genial face of Senator Pendleton, and next came the sagacious round head of Senator Beck, with close-cut, curling hair.
"'I began, he said, 'by expounding to 'em all the doctrine of cross-revenge, or vendetta trasversa, as they call it; and this I did for two reasons the first because in an argument there's naught so persuasive as telling a man something he knows already the second because it proved to them, and to me, that I wasn't drunk. For the doctrine has more twists in it than a conger.
After the battle at Jaro, I went out to live for awhile in the quarters of Captain Walter H. Gordon, Lieutenant J. Barnes, and Lieutenant A. L. Conger, 18th U. S. A. I soon realized that the war was still on, for every day and night, the rattle of musketry told that somewhere there was trouble. One day I went out to see the fortifications deserted by the Filipinos.
"I have met the Princess Chun on several occasions at the audiences in the palace, at luncheons with Mrs. Conger, at a feast with the Imperial Princess, at a tea with the Princess Tsai Chen, and at the palaces of many of the princesses. She is a very quiet little woman, and looked almost infantile as she gazed at one with her big, black eyes.
I looked round, and found the crack where the conger must have been, and then came a summons from without. "Well, can't you find any more?" "No," I said; "but there's a big hole here. Perhaps there's another conger." "Put your hand in and pull him out, then," cried Bob with a sneer. I did not answer, for I felt now very plainly how much easier it is to give orders than to obey them.
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