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"Indeed!" said Mr. Danforth, whose manner somewhat puzzled Dawkins. "I should enjoy having him with me," continued Dawkins. "Did you like Prescott?" "No, sir," said Dawkins, promptly, "I didn't want to say so before, but now, since he's turned out so badly, I don't mind saying that I never thought much of him." "On the contrary," said Mr. Danforth, "I liked him from the first.
Your appearing here will injure me." "But I am not your friend; why should I care?" sneered Duval. "Listen to reason. Leave me now, and I will meet you when and where you will." "Come, that sounds better." "Now go. I'm afraid Mr. Danforth will be in." "If he comes, introduce me." Dawkins would like to have knocked the fellow over.
But just then Dan came a serious young man with a ready-made necktie, who had escaped the city's brand of frivolity an electrician earning 30 dollars per week who looked upon Lou with the sad eyes of Romeo, and thought her embroidered waist a web in which any fly should delight to be caught. "My friend, Mr. Owens shake hands with Miss Danforth," said Lou.
"Our own words?" asked Hemp Danforth, uneasily. "Yes, overheard by these two lads, whom you chased but couldn't catch. I guess when Blake Stewart and Joe Duncan go into court, and testify about hearing you talk of wrecking vessels by your false lantern, the jury'll convict you, all right!" Hemp seemed less concerned with what Tom said than with the name Joe Duncan.
I know him by reputation, however." "I suppose he is very rich." "Yes, I should judge so. At any rate, he is doing an extensive business." "What is his business?" "He is a merchant." "A merchant," thought Paul; "that is just what I should like to be, but I don't see much prospect of it." "How do you like Mrs. Danforth?" inquired the sexton. "Very much," said Paul, warmly.
These plans were carried out to the letter and in 1900 an airy, grey brick building, finished with white granite and limestone, plentifully supplied with comfortable verandas, and bearing over its pillared entrance the name, "Elizabeth Skelton Danforth Memorial Hospital," was ready for occupancy.
The thoughts and feelings aroused on that evening colored the whole future destiny of Horace Danforth.
Simon Bradstreet, Esq., our late Governor; the Hon. Thomas Danforth, our late Deputy-governor; the Rev. Mr. Increase Mather; and the Rev. Mr. Samuel Willard." Bradstreet was ninety years of age, but in the full possession of his mental faculties. In this sense, "his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated."
Danforth, who was a worthy gentleman and a true friend to the liberties of the Colony; and he asked Rebecca to read some ingenious verses writ by him in one of his almanacs, which she had copied not long ago, wherein he compareth New England to a goodly tree or plant. Whereupon, Rebecca read them as followeth:
She undertook the part of guardian angel, and used to talk lots of sentiment. The girls get lots of that out of George Sand's novels about the holiness of doing just as you've a mind to, and all that," said Danforth. "By George, Dan, you oughtn't to laugh. She may have more good in her than you think." "Oh, humbug! don't I know her?"
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