United States or Tuvalu ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
I remember to this day what a struggle we had over the word "water," Miss Dillingham and I. It seemed as if I could not give the sound of w; I said "vater" every time.
Palgrave, but really to explain that he had caught him in town on business, and taken him at the disadvantage of distance from his evening dress, though, of course, he did not say it in such and so many words. The speech was unnecessary. Mrs. Dillingham had told the whole story in her own unapproachable way. When dinner was announced Mr. Belcher was requested to lead Mrs.
Dillingham. She would not be at home in the society of which he had caught a glimpse, or among the splendors to which he would be obliged to introduce her. Even Talbot, the man who was getting rich upon the products of his enterprise, had a more impressive wife than he. And thus, with much reflection, this strange, easy-natured brute without a conscience, wrought up his soul into self-pity.
The General was very much vexed with the interruption, but declared that he should be obliged to follow the messenger. "Leave the little book until you come back," insisted Mrs. Dillingham, sweetly. "It will amuse me all day." She held it to her breast with both hands, as if it were the sweetest treasure that had ever rested there. "Will you take care of it?" "Yes."
After that, the great proprietor, as a relief from the severe pursuits of his life, amused himself by experiments with inks and pens, and pencils, and with writing in a hand not his own, the names of "Nicholas Johnson" and "James Ramsey." Mrs. Dillingham was walking back and forth alone through her long drawing-room.
"Quibble," he cried in a rasping voice as soon as my man had gone, "our luck's turned! That woman has tricked us. They've got one in which he admits being served by Bunce in the Astor House and asks Crookshank to appear for him. They've got another, written after Dillingham had fixed him, telling Crookshank to put in no defence.
The evening edition carried spectacular front-page stories recounting my flight to Boston, the entire history of the Dillingham divorce, biographies of both Gottlieb and myself, and anecdotes of cases in which we had appeared and notorious criminals whom we had defended.
They were men in good positions clergymen, merchants, lawyers, physicians, young men of good families men whose wives and mothers and sisters entertained an uncharitable opinion of that lady; but for this one courtesy of a year the men would not be called to account. Mrs. Dillingham knew them all at sight, called each man promptly by name, and presented them all to her dear friend Mrs.
My teacher, my schoolmates, Miss Dillingham, George Washington himself could not mean more than I when they said "my country," after I had once felt it. For the Country was for all the Citizens, and I was a Citizen. And when we stood up to sing "America," I shouted the words with all my might. I was in very earnest proclaiming to the world my love for my new-found country.
Dillingham?" said Sheeley, rejoining them; "an' yer gentleman friend?" "Nothing for me," said Morley with unnecessary firmness. "I'll just wait a second until the storm lets up, then be off to town." "Do any boxing these days, Dick?" asked Dillingham, pouring himself a second drink of whisky, as he hovered over the newly kindled fire. "Oh! I don the mitts occasionally to gratify me friends.
Word Of The Day