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To have talked to Jabe Doty or Nath Hayes on any other subjects than those of crops and mountain politics or sermons would have been to bewilder them hopelessly. To find himself in mental contact with a man who had lived and thought through all the years during which he himself had vegetated at the Cross-roads, was a wonderful thing to him.
Our Mission was commenced at Amoy by the late Rev. David Abeel, D.D. Mr. Abeel arrived at Amoy in company with the Rev. On the 22d of June, 1844, Rev. E. Doty and Rev. Wm. J. Pohlman arrived at Amoy from Borneo. In Dec., 1844, Mr. Abeel in consequence of continued and increasing ill health left Amoy on his return to the United States. Mrs. Pohlman and Mrs. Doty having been removed by death, Mr.
Doty, I need you!" hurried away toward the office, and Blakely, fairly running, sped straight for the barracks of Wren's troop. Only Byrne was left to answer the storm of question that burst upon him all at once, women thronging about him from all along the line. "We have news from the agency," said he.
Carolyn Doty is dying to ask you a lot more questions about the Red Desert. She confided to me that you were the most interesting talker " Miss Eleanor's interruption was calculated to temper the passed-on praise. "He has been simply boring me to death, mamma, until just a few minutes ago. I shall tell Carolyn that she is too easily pleased." Mrs.
They were too far away from earth to feel it real just now, though it was part of the happiness of things like the sunshine and the soft wind and the look in Tom's eyes, when, amid hand-shakes and congratulations, and welcoming laughter, he himself laughed back in his old way. "Ye look jest like ye used ter, Tom jest like ye used ter," cried Jake Doty. "Ye hain't changed a durned bit!"
"They would all say that a shop-girl had no right to try to teach school. Well, I'm much obliged to you, Miss Mitchell." "What are you going to do?" Miss Mitchell asked, anxiously, following her to the door. "I'm going to Mrs. Doty, to get some of the wrappers that mother works on, until something else turns up," replied Ellen. "It seems a pity." Ellen smiled bravely.
She explained by saying Elise had been quite ill, was still suffering, and might need her services again. She could not think, she said, of sending for Dr. Graham after all he had had to vex him. It must have been quite a long while after, so soundly had Plume slept, when she bent over him and said something was amiss and Mr. Doty was at the front door waiting for him to come down.
Doty the idea of the "Queen of Sheby" appeared to recur persistently, all his imaginings of the poetic, the dramatic, and luxurious being drawn from Scriptural sources. "I can't think o' nuthin' else but Sheby when I look at her," he remarked several times. "She 'minds me more o' Sheby then anything else 'n Scripter. Minty'll jest hev to come ter see her."
There's nobody else to claim her, he tells me, and so I'll claim her. There's enough of me to take care of her, and I mean to do it." It was so extraordinary a sensation, that for a few moments there was another silence, broken as before by Mrs. Doty. "Waal," she remarked, removing her snuff-stick and expectorating into the fire.
She was sure Wren was consulting or winding or doing something with a watch, and, sorely perplexed and marveling much at the reticence of his company commanders, who seemed to know something they would not speak of, Wren sent for Doty. He had decided on another interview with Wren.
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