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Fairchilds incredulously asked. "That's what! As good as, anyways. I always get somepin I want when I make up my mind oncet." And he grinned maliciously. Fairchilds pondered the matter as, with depressed spirits, he walked home over the frozen road. "No wonder the poor girl yielded to the pressure of such an environment," he mused.
A wild thrill of rapture shot through Tillie's heart at his words. For an instant she looked up at him, her soul shining in her eyes. "Does he does HE care that much what happens to me?" throbbed in her brain. For the first time Fairchilds fully realized, with shame at his blind selfishness, the danger and the cruelty of his intimate friendship with this little Mennonite maid.
A deep chasm, he said, in his front could not be crossed. "By gad," replied the General, "Col. Perry, you must cross it." "I can cross it, General, but it will cost me half my command. Every man attempting to cross it has been killed, and two litter bearers going to the relief of a wounded man were killed." Word now reached us from Fairchilds that Bernard was calling for help.
And Tillie she don't want to go and waste all her nice education that there way!" Fairchilds took her hand and looked down into her shining eyes. "I hardly know you, Tillie, in your new way of dressing!" "What what brings you here?" she asked, drawing away her hand. "I've come from the Millersville Normal School with a letter for you from Mrs.
Her aunt was quietly reading. She needed to ask her nothing: Mr. Henderson had not been there. Why had he written to her? "Oh, the Fairchilds want us to come over to dinner," said Miss Forsythe, without looking up. "I hope you will go, auntie. I sha'n't mind being alone." "Why? It's perfectly informal. Mr. Henderson happens to be there." "I'm too stupid. But you must go. Mr.
The investigation of the applicant was opened up by the president of the Board, a long-haired Amishman, whose clothes were fastened by hooks and eyes instead of buttons and buttonholes, these latter being considered by his sect as a worldly vanity. "What was your experience a'ready as a teacher?" Fairchilds replied that he had never had any.
They started out and had almost reached the line, bullets were singing around, when the General, rubbing his hands, remarked: "Mr. Fairchilds, this is a splendid day's work; how long did it take Gen. Wheaton to get this far?" Fairchilds, as brave a man as ever trod in shoe leather, replied: "General, I do not remember exactly, but as near as I can judge it was about twenty minutes."
Johnson and her daughter we had from Illinois and Mrs. Snyder from Maine," Abe explained to Mr. Fairchilds. "And them Johnsons stayed the whole week." "They stopped here while Mr. Johnson went over the county sellin' milk-separators," added Mrs. Wackernagel. "And Abe he was in Lancaster that week, and the Doc he was over to East Donegal, and there was no man here except only us ladies!
As she felt its throbbing little body against her hand, she thought of herself in the hand of God. She turned and spoke her thought to Fairchilds. "Could I possibly hurt this little bird, which is so entirely at my mercy? Could I judge it, condemn and punish it, for some mistake or wrong or weakness it had committed in its little world?
Wheaton and Gen. Ross after the battle on the 17th of January. When the Indians discovered this move they made a determined attempt to break the line, but the troops had had time to fortify and the attempt proved a failure. Gen. Gillem the next morning sent for John Fairchilds and asked him to go with Capt.
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