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Updated: May 23, 2025
"She's dreadfully theatrical, dreadfully," thought Miss Lacey. "She is broken-hearted," thought Dunham; and pulling himself together he found his voice. "My name is Dunham, Miss Lacey," he said, meeting the blue eyes where the fire had burned out, showing the face so white, so young. "This is in the day's work for me, and I'm sorry.
Ah! this is a vain world of ours, Lundie, it must be owned; and in nothing vainer than in matrimony." "And yet you are ready to put your neck into the noose for the fifth time?" "I desire to say, it will be but the fourth, Major Duncan," said the Quartermaster positively; then, instantly changing the expression of his face to one of boyish rapture, he added, "But this Mabel Dunham is a rara avis!
To John's further amazement, Benny, instead of bounding off the barrel, complied with reluctance; but they were finally out of doors in the velvet darkness that preceded the moonrise. "I want to know where you left Miss Sylvia," said John Dunham imperiously. The boy hesitated a minute, then spoke grudgingly. "At the Tide Mill." "How was she?"
And do you suppose, Sergeant Dunham, that I can find one island out of a thousand without knowing its name or its position, without even a course or a distance?" "As for the name, brother Cap, you need not be particular, for not one of the whole thousand has a name, and so a mistake can never be made on that score.
Each one has had his supping mess, The cheese is put into the press, The pans and bowls, clean scalded all, Reared up against the milk-house wall. It seemed strange to Mabel Dunham, as she passed along on her way to find her female companion, that others should be so composed, while she herself felt as if the responsibilities of life and death rested on her shoulders.
Such was the man whom Sergeant Dunham had selected as the husband of Mabel. In making this choice, he had not been as much governed by a clear and judicious view of the merits of the individual, perhaps, as by his own likings; still no one knew the Pathfinder so intimately as himself without always conceding to the honest guide a high place in his esteem on account of these very virtues.
Now, Hugh blindly trusted Ferris, as the statesman's nephew, and, in fact, Ferris is, to a certain extent, a very dangerous customer for all of us. He had papers and secrets which might ruin his uncle, and a discovery of the hidden relations with Hugh would gravely affect our company's commanding position. Old Boardman has had a week of private conference with Senator Dunham.
"When I get a glimpse of it as I did this week, I'm tempted to hasten my retirement, to bid farewell to the squabbling world, and turn fisherman, begin to spread nets for mackerel instead of my fellow men, and trap only such lobsters as will blush in a pot instead of in court." "Hear, hear," said Dunham.
Dunham plundered his own and Staniford's common stock of dainties for her dessert; the first officer agreed and applauded right and left; Staniford alone sat taciturn and inoperative, watching her face furtively. Once her eyes wandered to the side of the table where he and Dunham sat; then she colored and dropped her glance.
"It's better than nothing. Holliday could double-cross us." That cool! "Winner take all," droned Perry. "Winner take all!" Dunham snapped. And that afternoon they signed articles, Hamilton acting for Blair. The same night Perry told Felicity what he had done. "So I I'll either have twenty thousand dollars in a month or so," he made bad work of it, "or I'll know that I'm never likely to have it.
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