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"Hooray!" yelled Kyan, a little behind, as usual. A passenger or two peered from the coach window. The stage driver ironically touched his cap. "Thank ye," he said. "Thank ye very much. I've been hopin' for this for a long time, though I'd about given up expectin' it. I'm very much obliged. Won't somebody please ask me to make a speech?" Captain Elkanah frowned his disapproval.
And did she believe in Elkanah? Utterly. And did Elkanah believe in himself? Yes, but with certain grave doubts. Here is the difference: the woman's faith is intuition; the man must have a reason for the faith that is in him. Yet Elkanah was growing.
The two members of the parish committee left the parsonage soon after Captain Mayo had finished his story. Elkanah had listened with growing irritation and impatience. Zebedee lingered a moment behind his companions. "Don't you fret yourself about what happened last night, Mr. Ellery," he whispered. "It'll be all right.
WILKES. 'We have no City-Poet now: that is an office which has gone into disuse. The last was Elkanah Settle. There is something in names which one cannot help feeling. Now Elkanah Settle sounds so queer, who can expect much from that name?
At the Barclay auction I bought also the oil painting of the bark "Freedom" a command of Captain Elkanah Barclay, uncle of the late Darius and the set two volumes missing of The Spectator, bound in sheepskin.
By the Almighty, Elkanah Daniels! I'll You take that back or I'll choke the everlastin' soul out of you. I will " "Let go, you lunatic! You'll kill yourself. Listen! I'm not lying. It's the truth. She's met a man, I tell you. Been meeting him for months, I guess. There! now will you listen?" The footsteps had ceased, but the heavy breathing continued. "A man!" gasped Eben. "A man! Gracie!
Even through the crack of the dish-closet door I could see the bristles risin' on the back of Cap'n Zeb Mayo's neck. "At last Cap'n Zeb couldn't stand it no longer. "'Belay there! he sings out, jumpin' to his feet. 'I want to ask you one question, Elkanah Daniels: Are you tryin' to say somethin' against Grace Van Horne's character?
Did you read a paper of his, a few months back, in The Wayside, a preposterous rehabilitation of Elkanah Settle? Ha! Ha! That's what such men are driven to. Elkanah Settle! And he hadn't even a competent acquaintance with his paltry subject.
But the old residents love to talk of the days that are gone and if you happen to catch Mr. Isaac Higgins, now postmaster and a dignified member of the board of selectmen, in a reminiscent mood he will very likely tell you of the meeting of the parish committee called by its chairman, Elkanah Daniels, to oust the Rev. John Ellery from the pulpit of the Regular church.
How Captain Elkanah and Annabel would sneer and exult! They hated her because she was the minister's friend. And Nat, poor fellow, what would he do? Well, at least he would understand now. The narrow stairway leading up to the workshop ended in a little boxed-in room where the finished garments were hung to await the final pressing.
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