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They entered the sitting room and the lady glanced superciliously about the apartment. "Hum ha!" barked Captain Elkanah. "Ahem! Mr. Ellery, I trust you're being made comfortable. The parish committee are hum ah anxious that you should be. Yes?" The minister said that he was very comfortable indeed. "It isn't what you've been used to, we know," observed Miss Annabel. "Mr.
Ellery, I'm glad if I have helped you to understand my uncle better and why I love and respect him. If you knew him as I do, you would respect him, too. Good-by." She was going, but the minister had something to say. He stepped forward and walked beside her. "Just a minute, please," he urged. "Miss Van Horne, I do understand. I do respect your uncle.
Even as it was, she did go as far as the ropes, but there she was warded off by Ebenezer until Ellery came running out and bade her come no nearer. "But you shan't stay here, Mr. Ellery," vowed Keziah. "Or, if you do, I'll stay, too. I ain't afraid of smallpox." "I am," confessed the minister, "and I'm not going to let anyone I care for expose themselves to it unnecessarily.
Ellery wanted to marry Jezebel's sister, and I knew he really wanted to, I'd I do believe I'd help him get her. And Grace Van Horne is a good girl. Go ahead." "Of course," put in Parker, profiting by a hint of Mrs. Coffin's, "of course Daniels will fight tooth and nail against us. He'll be for discharging Ellery at once. And he really runs the parish committee." "He does, hey?
He had taken but a few steps when there was a rustle in the wet grass behind him. "Mr. Ellery," whispered a voice, "Mr. Ellery, may I speak to you just a moment?" He wheeled in surprise. "Why! why, Miss Van Horne!" he exclaimed. "Is it you?" "Mr. Ellery," she began, speaking hurriedly and in a low voice, "I I felt that I must say a word to you before " She paused and glanced back at the chapel.
She didn't take them all, did she?" "No o, but Well, the fact is, Mr. Ellery, I I I'm locked in." "Locked in?" "Yes, locked in this room. She she Oh, consarn it all, Mr. Ellery, she's locked me in this room a-purpose, so's I won't get out and go somewheres without her knowin' it." "What?" "Um h'm; that's what she's done. Did you ever hear of anything like that in your born days?"
Other Congressmen who were inimical to Washington, either by openly expressed opinion or by vote, were Elbridge Gerry, Samuel Adams, William Ellery, Eliphalet Dyer, Roger Sherman, Samuel Chase, and F.L. Lee.
"I said 'row'," Ellery remarked as he pushed the boat out from shore, "but I meant 'loaf and invite the soul'. The sunlight is too delectable for anything strenuous." "But inviting the soul is always a solitary experience," objected Madeline. "Perhaps. But it is delightful to know that there is a sister soul also inviting herself close at hand. I hope yours will accept the invitation.
Pretty decent feller one time, but a fast goer, and went downhill like a young one's sled, when he got started. His folks had money, that was the trouble with him. Why, 'course I knew him! He married " "I know. Now, listen." Ellery went on talking rapidly and with great earnestness. Ebenezer listened, at first silently, then breaking in with ejaculations and grunts of astonishment.
Two squirrels chased each other around a big maple, and a blue jay looked on and commented. "Why is this stream of girls and men out for their holiday like baked ice-cream?" asked Dick. "That isn't a conundrum; it's a philosophic question." "I know, they give you the same sense of incongruity," Ellery answered lazily. "But I like them," Dick pursued.
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