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The child screams; and the man crashes to the earth with his head cleft by a hatchet from behind. A horseman riding from White River Homestead to Beacon Crossing will find himself confronted with just eighty-two miles of dreary, flat trail; in summer time, just eighty-two miles of blistering sun, dust and mosquitoes.
Do pick up for me all you can about Louis Napoleon, my one real abiding enthusiasm, the enthusiasm of my whole life, for it began with the Emperor and has passed quite undiminished to the present great, bold, and able ruler of France. Mrs. She is eighty-two now, and as active and vigorous in body and mind, as sixty years ago.
"Does Uncle Ike board with Mandy now?" Alice knew that he did, but wished Mrs. Hawkins' view of the strange doings of her uncle. "Yes, he's there goin' on eighty-two and chipper as a squirrel. He's got religion Mandy says, and so many kinds that she don't know which one he's got the most of." Quincy looked at his watch. "Mrs. Hawkins, we're going up to Ezekiel's house.
"It's no joke! Eighty-two roubles! I declare I won't pay it." "I'll pay it to-day," said Laptev. "Why should you? Why should you?" cried Nina Fyodorovna in agitation. "It's quite enough for me to take two hundred and fifty every month from you and our brother. God bless you!" she added, speaking softly, so as not to be overheard by the servants.
Swindlers and murderers had no more redoubtable enemy, for he seemed to read in the recesses of their souls their most secret thoughts. He was dead, now, at the age of eighty-two, honored by the homage and followed by the regrets of a whole people. Soldiers in red breeches had escorted him to the tomb, and men in white cravats had shed on his grave tears that seemed to be real.
The third pool is the largest of all, having a length of five hundred and eighty-two feet. The upper end is one hundred and forty-eight feet wide, the lower end two hundred and seven feet, and the depth at the lower end is fifty feet. The pools are about one hundred and fifty feet apart, and have an aggregate area of six and a quarter acres, with an average depth approaching thirty-eight feet.
This house was in Virginia, near a town which changed hands, under fire, eighty-two times during the war a town whose hotel register shows on the same page the names of officers of both armies, a town where there are two large cities of the fallen soldiers, each embellished by the saddest of all epitaphs "To the unknown dead."
His picture and an accompanying letter, sent me from his home in Bedford, Pennsylvania, when he was eighty-two years old, are before me, and as I look on the well-known features, I repeat from my heart the testimony of his biographer: "For more than twenty years an Indian Agent, and yet an honest man."
Thirty-one years. Multiply it for yourself. Three thousan', seven hundred an' eighty-two miles all for the sake of two hundred feet of pipe. Wouldn't that jar you?" "Oh, I ain't done yet. They's a bath-tub an' stationary tubs a-comin' soon as I can see my way. An', say, Saxon, you know that little clear flat just where Wild Water runs into Sonoma. They's all of an acre of it. An' it's mine!
Only one house had a light burning as far as they could see; that house was a white stucco one, number twelve eighty-two and the light was on the third floor. "Here come the others," whispered Bob to Sergeant Riley as they drew near their destination. Orders had already been given and every one knew what he was to do.