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At that I fled out of the house, and at first the thought of her as another man's wife, as Hambleton Durrett's wife, was seemingly not to be borne. It was incredible! "We'll close the book." I found myself repeating the phrase; and it seemed then as though something within me I had believed dead something that formerly had been all of me had revived again to throb with pain.
There was much controversy over the question as to whether or not Ham Durrett's reform would be permanent; but most people were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt; it was time he settled down and took the position in the community that was to be expected of one of his name; and as for Nancy, it was generally agreed that she had done well for herself.
And I fail to see why you should blame me for taking it when you yourself have taken it. Hambleton Durrett can give it to me. He'll accept me on my own terms, he won't interfere with me, I shan't be disillusionized, and I shall have a position which I could not hope to have if I remained unmarried, a very marked position as Hambleton Durrett's wife. I am thirty, you know."
Durrett's wildest dreams." She shook her head complacently. "Do you know what I told him when he married me? I said, 'Adolf, it is a pity you are born in Germany. And when he asked me why, I told him that some day he might have been President of the United States." "Well, that won't be a great deprivation to him," I remarked. "Mr. Scherer can do what he wants, and the President cannot."
Hogan; all were from the North Carolina backwoods; their ancestry is shown by their names. They settled in Boonsborough and Harrodsburg. Like Logan he was born in Pennsylvania, of Presbyterian Irish stock. He had received a good education. Morehead, p. 52. Shelby's MS. autobiography, in Durrett's Library at Louisville.
All of this is taken from the McAfee MSS., in Colonel Durrett's library. McAfee MSS. A similar adventure befell my brother Elliott and my cousin John Roosevelt while they were hunting buffalo on the staked plains of Texas in 1877. They evidently wore breech-clouts and leggings, not trowsers. McAfee MSS. Filson's "Boon." October 10, 1773, Filson's "Boon."
Durrett's wildest dreams." She shook her head complacently. "Do you know what I told him when he married me? I said, 'Adolf, it is a pity you are born in Germany. And when he asked me why, I told him that some day he might have been President of the United States." "Well, that won't be a great deprivation to him," I remarked. "Mr. Scherer can do what he wants, and the President cannot."
He was empowered to choose a deputy-commandant, and officers for the militia; but the judges and officers of the court were to be elected by the people themselves. There is an MS. copy in Col. Durrett's library at Louisville. It is our best authority for these years in Illinois. The substance of it is given on pp. 49-68 of Mr.
The subject was investments, at first those of coal and iron in my own state, for Mr. Watling, it appeared, was counsel for the Boyne Iron Works. "It will pay you to keep an eye on that company, Mr. Kyme," he said, knocking the ashes from his cigar. "Now that old Mr. Durrett's gone " "You don't mean to say Nathaniel Durrett's dead!" said Mr. Kyme. The lawyer nodded.
A thrilling history, Mr. Durrett's, could I but have entered into it. I did not reflect then that this stern old man must have throbbed once; nay, fire and energy still remained in his bowels, else he could not have continued to dominate a city.
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