Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 16, 2025
When Mrs. Cortlandt assembled her party on the steam-tug chartered by her for the excursion, the army was very well represented. With the exception of the chaperons and a bronzed veteran, who was inclined to direct the conversation to his Indian campaigns in the Black Hills, the company was young, and of the age and temper in which everything seems fair in love and war, and one that gave Mr.
This plan Paul approved, and it was to be carried into execution immediately. "I will go down to the Cortlandt Street Ferry with you, Phil," said Paul. "I should like to have you, if it will not take you from your business, Paolo." "My business can wait," said Paul. "I mean to see you safe out of the city. The padrone may be in search of you already."
Evelyn had just been in and out of her mother's room, on one errand and another, and was going out again, when her mother said: "Oh, by-the-way, Evelyn, at last we have got a splendid place for McDonald." Evelyn turned, not exactly comprehending. "A place for McDonald? For what?" "As governess, of course. With Mrs. Van Cortlandt." "What! to leave us?"
When they had covered about half the distance to the raft, a huge boa-constrictor, which they had mistaken for a branch, fell upon Cortlandt, pinioning his arms and bearing him to the ground.
In the eastern shore of Cortlandt Bay they soon observed the mouth of a river, ten miles across, from which this tinted water issued in a flood. On account of its colour, which reminded them of a stream they knew so well, they christened it the Harlem.
Pressing her gloved fingers to her temples she turned her head blindly from side to side, whispering as if to herself: "What will become of me?" "Don't," he cried, in a panic, and cast a hurried look over his shoulders. "You'll be overheard you'll be seen. You don't know what you're saying. Where's Cortlandt?" "At his club, I suppose. I don't know I I don't care."
A marvellous change there was in the atmosphere of the camp. Twice Quonab spoke to Van Cortlandt, as the latter laboured with them to save and store the meat of his moose.
This dome, on account of its shape, sky windows, and the completeness with which it could be isolated, was an ideal observatory, and there was seldom a time during their waking hours for the rest of the journey when it was not occupied by one, two, or all the observers. "There is something marvellous," said Cortlandt, "about the condition of space.
Your thoughts and your soul are fairer far than the east in this day's sunrise. I know what I have lost. Ah, desolating knowledge! for I have read Sylvia's heart, and know I was loved as truly as I loved. When Bearwarden and Cortlandt break her the news ah, God! will she live, and do they yet know I am dead?"
Like every one down here who was doing something, he talked of little besides the Big Job, even when Mr. Cortlandt joined the trio. As the two younger men rose to leave, Edith playfully admonished him to teach his protege the entire detail of the railroad business and have him back in time for dinner, to which he agreed.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking