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Well, she'll be married soon, just as soon as Cap'n Nat gets back. They perfectly worship each other, those two. They say she writes him the longest letters. Hannah Poundberry told me. Hannah's a queer creature and common, but devoted to the Hammonds, Mr. Ellery. However, you're not interested in Come-Outers, are you? Ha, ha!"
He marched into that meetin' and up to the platform as stiff and dignified as if he'd swallered a peck of starch. He called the meetin' to order 'twas a full one, for all hands and the cook was there and then got up to speak. "He opened fire right off. He raked John Ellery fore and aft. The parson, he said, had disgraced the society and his sacred profession and should be hove overboard immediate.
She asked no more questions, however; minding her own business was a specialty of Keziah's, and it was a rare quality in Trumet. Sunday was a cloudy, warm day, "muggy," so Captain Zeb described it. After the morning service Mr. Ellery, as usual, went home with Captain Daniels and Annabel. Keziah returned to the parsonage, ate a lonely dinner, washed the dishes, and sat down to read a library book.
Smith"; Sermons and Essays, by William Ellery Channing. We found in the box, also, thirty numbers of the United States Magazine and Democratic Review and sundry copies of the New York Mirror. "Ayes! I declare! What do you think o' this, Peabody Baynes!" Aunt Deel exclaimed as she sat turning the pages of a novel.
Preston, Dick and Ellery tried to put fire into some dingy little hall-full of men. To Percival's surprise, Norris developed a plain common-sense variety of eloquence that appealed to his audiences quite as much as did Dick's more fervid eloquence. Ellery invariably spoke straight to some well-known condition.
"That's all of the first and second parts; the third is yet to come. When I know it, I'll tell you; perhaps next summer, if we meet here again." "Then you know the girl? What is she doing now?" asked Miss Ellery, who had lost a part of the story as she sat in a shadowy nook with the pensive Fred. "We all know her. She is washing a coffee-pot at this moment, I believe;" and Mr.
That gets a quick rise out of the former Myrtle Mapes, now Mrs. Zosco. "Why why," says she, "my brother Ellery does." "That's so," put in Zosco. "Where is the youngster?" "Ellery?" says Myrtle, givin' him that innocent baby-doll look. "Oh, he must be in his room. I I will look." "Never mind," says I. "Probably he is. It doesn't matter. Visiting here, too, eh? How long? About two weeks.
I'll head the paper with pleasure and give all I can afford, for it must be so horrid to be ignorant at her age. I dare say the poor thing can't even read; just fancy!" and Miss Ellery clasped her hands with a sigh of pity. "Very few girls can read fit to be heard now-a-days," murmured Miss Scott.
If I need you below, I'll call." The minister backed down the ladder and the doctor followed him. Parker bent over the bunk for a few moments in silence. "He's pretty bad," he muttered. "Mighty little chance. Heavens, what a den! Who broke that window?" "I did," replied Ellery. "The air down here was dreadful." The doctor nodded approvingly. "I guess so," he said. "It's bad enough now.
"Norris, you are funny," he said. "Why?" "You always see consequences to things." "Most things have both causes and effects," Ellery retorted, ruffled. "I deny it," said Dick. When they creaked at the dock, Dick suddenly pushed forward so that he almost touched Lena in the crowd that was hurrying to shore. "Good afternoon, Miss Quincy," he said.
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