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Updated: June 11, 2025
Then again, Filmore High School was a team worth beating at any time and Filmore boosters had been making free remarks about a Gridley Waterloo. So there was a feeling of general depression in dressing quarters. Dick Prescott, with his dashing, crafty, splendid, score-making work at left end, had become a necessity to the Gridley eleven.
Clarence bit the end of his waxed mustache, and mused over his sire's startling announcement. "You recollect that I never saw her." "D'ye carry poppin'-jays, pilgrims?" demanded Jehu, turning so suddenly upon the two passengers as to frighten them out of their wits. "Popping-jays?" echoed Filmore, senior. "Yas shutin'-irons rewolvers patent perforatin' masheens."
'I cannot help it, said Filmore Durand quietly. 'I paint what I see. If you are not pleased with the likeness, I shall be only too happy to keep it. The Marchesa protested.
Instead of condescending, Filmore Durand smiled rather indifferently and gave his pallet and brushes to his man, who was already waiting at his elbow to receive them.
It was Filmore Durand's odd speech that had come back to her often during two years; when she repeated it to herself she saw his portrait of Giovanni, which still hung in Madame Bernard's sitting-room, and presently it was not a picture seen in memory, but Giovanni himself. Madame Bernard shrugged her shoulders and smiled vaguely. 'Death is a fact, she said prosaically.
Men, women, children, everybody, indeed, came. The women brought bread and tablecloths, and commonly much beside. There was a speaker's stand, flag draped my infant eyes first saw the Stars and Stripes floating above portraits alleged of Filmore and Buchanan, in the campaign of '56.
Boone told him that it was his idea that he would be safer with three men, the ones he selected to go with him, viz.: Tom Boggs, Colonel Saint Vraine, Major Filmore and Colonel Bent than he would be with a thousand soldiers. The first thing Boone did was to send out runners to have the Indians come in to Big Timbers, on the Arkansas River, where Fort Lyon is now located.
For it seemed to him that the picture was a precious reality, and that the young girl who had sat for it was only nature's copy, and not perfect at that; and perhaps the reality would not be taken from him, now, since Prince Chiaromonte had come to an untimely end; and the prospect of keeping the canvas was exceedingly pleasing to Filmore Durand.
Then the Gridley bannerets waved like a surging sea of color. The band, finishing its strain, started in again, not waiting for breath. "Prescott, after all, on left end!" Home boosters were still cheering wildly by the time that Captain Pike, of Filmore High School, had won the toss and the teams were lining, up. Silence did not fall until just the instant before the ball was put in play.
"I know," she returned brightly. "At her tea-party the other day. You told me about it." She was so taken up with the delightful agitation of finding herself in such a large and imposing assembly that she scarcely thought of her words. Rosamond laughed her slow laugh. "No, tonight," she corrected. "She is here, you know. Mrs. Filmore is giving the dinner in her honor."
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