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Miss Mary M. Angell was elected at the annual meeting and gave a like term of years of devoted service. Mrs. Dewing was made honorary president. In 1911 a lecture on Woman's Ballot by Professor Henry S. Nash of Harvard University, well known as a lecturer, before the Providence Biblical Institute, greatly strengthened the cause among conservative people. Mrs.
Dewing send it to a publisher, who said it was clever, but had no plot. If I only could get a plot!" Honora laughed. "How would I The Transformation of Mr. Chiltern' do, Elsie?" "If I only knew what's happened to him, and how he's going to end!" sighed Mrs. Shorter.
"Speaking of the stage," resumed Raynor, "it is also a part of my instructions that the Honorable Miss Seabring shall be discouraged from any further adventures in that direction; she's far too talented; there's danger of her becoming a great luminary. In other words, she is not to grace the boards again as Violet Dewing." Alice's brow clouded, and she turned to me.
Ardelia Cooke Dewing, a woman of unusual ability, had taken the presidency at the death of Mrs. Elizabeth Buffum Chace in 1899 and continued in the office until 1905. The association never failed to hold an annual convention in the autumn in Providence, where reside about half the population of the State.
Scotty done showed one." The lumberman raised. "What are you horning in for?" demanded Pete. "I've got you beat. It's Dewing's hide I'm after." Dewing looked at his cards and stayed. Pete saw the raise and re-raised.
At length, on Dewing's deal, Johnson picked up three kings before the draw. He sat at Dewing's left; it was his first chance to open the pot; he passed. Dewing coughed; Johnson felt again that current of cold air on his neck. "This must be the big mitt," thought Pete. "In a square game there'd be nothing unusual in passing up three kings for a raise that is good poker.
The sheet was shortened, and the Folly obediently headed westward against the swell, flinging rainbows from her bows as she ran. Mrs. Shorter and Dewing returned at this moment from the cabin, where they had been on a tour of inspection. "Where are you taking us, Hugh?" said Mrs. Shorter. "Nowhere in particular," he replied. "Please don't forget that I am having people to dinner to-night.
The sheet was shortened, and the Folly obediently headed westward against the swell, flinging rainbows from her bows as she ran. Mrs. Shorter and Dewing returned at this moment from the cabin, where they had been on a tour of inspection. "Where are you taking us, Hugh?" said Mrs. Shorter. "Nowhere in particular," he replied. "Please don't forget that I am having people to dinner to-night.
He picked up the deck. "Cards?" Pete pinched his cards to the smallest compass and cautiously discarded two of them, holding their faces close to the table. "Give me two right off the top." Dewing complied. "Cards to you?" he said. "Next gentleman?" The next gentleman scowled. "I orter have raised," he said. "Only I wanted Scotty's money. Now, like as not, somebody'll draw out on me.
Boland passed out; the first lumberman saw the raise. "I ought to lift this again; but I won't," announced the lumberman. "I want to get Scotty's money in this pot, and I might scare him out." Scotty, the second lumberman, hesitated for a moment, and then laid down his hand, using language. Dewing saw the raise. "Here's where I get a cheap draw for the Dead Man's Hand aces and eights."
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