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Don't you hear the drumsticks on the roof?" She hesitated. "Then have you a telephone?" "No, thank the Lord!" The remembered laughter flashed in Barry Elder's tones. "I came here to get away from the devil of invention and all his works. There isn't a telephone nearer than Peter's place four miles away.
"But I'd jest like once to say to ye, Elder, that if ever I get to heaven, I wouldn't ask anythin' more o' the Lord than to let me see Draxy 'n' you a comin' in together, an' lookin' as you looked jest now when ye come in't that gate!" The Elder's Wife. Sequel to "Draxy Miller's Dowry." Part I. Draxy and the Elder were married in the little village church, on the first Sunday in September.
Elder's battery, well posted on the hills facing the Rebels, and well supported, soon silenced the guns of the enemy, and drove him in the direction of Lee's main army. He was thoroughly punished for his audacious attack, and left many dead, wounded, and captured. The colors of the Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry were captured by a sergeant of the Fifth New York.
For though this pretty young woman had rendered impossible any reparation which Lodge might have made Rhoda for his past conduct, everything like resentment at the unconscious usurpation had quite passed away from the elder's mind. If the sweet and kindly Gertrude Lodge only knew of the scene in the bed- chamber, what would she think?
"Nothing can hurt you.... Come, dear." A few moments later, the three of them entered the living room, but stopped short at the sound of the elder's angry voice. "I'll send you and your squatter woman to Auburn with him, if you don't look out," he said. "Do what you please," snapped the lawyer. Holding the dwarf's hand, Tess went directly to the sheriff. "Here's Andy, sir," she faltered.
Jos was a little testy about his father's misfortunes and application to him for money, but was soothed down by the Major, who pointed out the elder's ill fortunes in old age.
I want to impress on your mind that it was only through her saying she was agreeable to your coming here that we agreed to the elder's request and let you come." "She did, eh?" cried Ida May, flouncing in her chair. "Well, I don't thank her." "No. I cal'late you ain't of a thanking disposition," said Cap'n Ira. "But you like enough won't drop your bread butter-side down. That's all."
In this instance, while the Elder's understanding had been decidedly enlarged, it had been in but one direction, and the effect had not been to his spiritual benefit, for he had seen only the suffering of his own side, and, being deficient in power to imagine what might be, he had taken no charitable thought for the other side.
The younger, a child of seven years with large black eyes and a timid countenance, was huddling close to his brother, a boy of ten, whom he greatly resembled in features, except that the look on the elder's face was deeper and firmer. Both were meanly dressed in clothes full of rents and patches.
He knows some Latin, Haley does," added the boy. "What's Latin, Janice?" "Nothing that will help him in the least to teach the Poketown School," declared his cousin, rather sharply for her. "Isn't that ridiculous! What can that old minister be thinking of?" "The Elder's great on what he calls 'the classics," said Mr. Day, with a chuckle. "He reads the Bible in the 'riginal, as he calls it.
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