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As I could not in honor present you with even this poor substitute, as I trust you will consider it, for my word-painting, without Colonel Donaldson's consent, I have been compelled, in deference to his wish, to divest the picture of every thing that would mark the geographical position of the place represented.
"Have you heard the latest news?" asked Carrissima, as he raised his hat. "About Jimmy and Bridget yes, I was immensely glad to have a visit from him late last night." "I have just been choosing a wedding present at Donaldson's," said Carrissima. "Oh yes," replied Mark, so distantly that she looked up suddenly to his face. "How is your patient?" she inquired. "Sir Wilford?" said Mark.
Of Donaldson's conduct in these hours of terrible tremity, a passenger wrote: "But for his judicious use of the ballast, his complete control of the balloon as far as it could be controlled, his steady nerve, kindness, and coolness in the hour of danger, the occupants would never have reached land. . . . The party took no provisions with them excepting two small pieces of bread two inches square, which Mr.
The mother passed her hand over the lad's head, expressing a world of tenderness in the act. "It was kind of you to bring him home," she said. The directness of the woman, her self control, her simplicity, enlisted Donaldson's interest at once. He had expected hysterics. He would have staked his last dollar that the woman came from Vermont.
During this and part of the next year Cairns remained in Mr. Donaldson's family, and his relations with that family as a whole, as well as his special work in the tuition of the young son and daughter of the house, were of the most agreeable kind.
She was in the library with a crumpled paper in her hand and Arsdale was bending over her. As he greeted them they both pushed back from him as though one of the dead had entered. The boy was the first to recover himself. He sprang to Donaldson's side with his hand out. "I told her it was n't true," he exclaimed. "I told her it was all a beastly lie!"
During these studio days he studied legerdemain and ventriloquism, and became one of the most expert sleight-of-hand wizards and ventriloquial entertainers of his time. Donaldson's first appearance before the public was at the old Long's Varieties on South Third Street in Philadelphia. His feats as a rope-walker have probably never been surpassed.
His face was alight, his body alert, as he came to Arsdale's side. The latter looked up at him in surprise, feeling his presence before he saw. Donaldson's first words stirred him, "You can't pull out," he said, "because you 're out already. You must pull in. Don't you see, you must pull back!" "You don't understand what I mean." "A great deal better than you yourself do.
She was moved by Charnock's exclamation, but durst not trust him or herself. There was a risk of his persuading her to abandon the plan if he knew how deeply she was stirred. "Well," he said, "what do you propose to do?" "Take a farm far enough from town to make it hard for you to drive in and out. Donaldson's place would suit; he quits in the fall, you know, and we hold his mortgage."
"Let me be, Andrew," she said. "I am better at this business than you." She had the courage of a lion, but 'twas a wild courage, without foresight. Another firebrand came circling through the darkness, and broke on the head of Donaldson's pony. I caught the girl and swung her off her feet into safety. And then on the heels of the torch came a flight of arrows, fired from near at hand.
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