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"Shut up your talk!" jeered Evarts roughly. "Don't try to give orders to the president of the company that hires and pays you." "Mr. Bascomb is the head of the company that employs me," Tom assented. "But I am in charge here, and am responsible, with Mr. Hazelton, for the good order of the camp and the success of the work.
After that I'll come out here and patrol along the wall until broad daylight." That was accordingly done. The "Morton" lay alongside the dock, and Nicolas instantly busied himself with casting off the rowboat and making her fast to the pier instead. Evarts sullenly remained in the boat. "Come on, Evarts," spoke Tom quietly. "Mr.
His lawyer friends, like Evarts, frequented legal circles where one still sat over the wine and told anecdotes of the bench and bar; but he himself never set eyes on a judge except when his father took him to call on old Lord Lyndhurst, where they found old Lord Campbell, both abusing old Lord Brougham.
Lowe, afterward Viscount Sherbrooke, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Both replied to toasts. Mr. Lowe as a speaker was perhaps a little dull, but not so Mr. Gladstone. There was a charm about the way in which his talk seemed to display the inner man. It could not be said that he had either the dry humor of Mr. Evarts or the wit of Mr.
The two principal members of the convention from the city of New York were Horace Greeley, editor of the ``Tribune, and William M. Evarts, afterward Attorney- General, United States senator, and Secretary of State of the United States. Mr. Greeley was at first all-powerful.
"Evarts claims that it's revenge work, on the part of some of our men, because Hazelton and I stopped gambling in the camp," Tom continued. "It might be," Renshaw admitted thoughtfully. "But to me it seems that there must be a lot more behind the whole terrible matter." "That's the way it strikes me, too," Tom nodded. "However, you're dressed, so now we can hurry out and get busy."
Answer: I did. Question: Was it made out before you came there, or after, or while you were there? Answer: While I was there. Question: And you then saw it? Answer: I saw it. Question by Mr. Answer: It was about twelve. * Question by Mr. Evarts: Did you become aware of the Tenure-of-office bill, as it is called, at or about the time that it passed Congress? Answer: I was aware of it.
"Go back to Evarts, then, and tell him that he'll have to threaten some one else this time. Tell him that I am through with him." "Huh!" growled the hang-dog messenger. "I believe Evarts said that, if old Bascomb wasn't quick, he'd make trouble for some one." "Tell Evarts," said Mr.
The gathering represented the most eminent talent of New York in every department of the great city's activities. Of course, Mr. Booth had the seat of honor at the right of the hostess. On the left was a distinguished man who had been a Cabinet minister and a diplomat. During the dinner Mr. Evarts said to me: "I have known so and so all our active lives.
Judge Curtis had maintained with cogent argument that the President was entitled to a judicial interpretation of the Tenure-of-office Law, and his associate counsel, Mr. Evarts, in the progress of the case made this proposition:
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