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If the salary isn't enough, name your figure." "You're not afraid of Woodman and wish to reach him through me?" Stuart continued, ignoring his last answer. The ghost of a smile flitted around the shining little black eyes. "Afraid?" he asked contemptuously. "I'm not even interested in him. The old fossil's a joke.
He engaged in the following battles: Fort Sumter, First Manassas, Yorktown, New Stone Point, West Point, Seven Pines, Mechanicsville, Chancellorsville, Riddle's Shop, Darby's Farm, Fossil's Mill, Petersburg, Jerusalem, Plank Road, Reams' Station, Winchester, Port Republic, and Cedar Run. Severely wounded in leg at Mechanicsville and again at Cedar Run, October 12th, 1864. Leg amputated.
Supposing that one of the old and valued friends he saw before him could suddenly see himself with the eyes of a young man of forty, or better still of thirty, what would he think of himself? He would desire to drive a pin through the old fossil's trousers and wake him up!
"Very well that's the urgent business. I know whose machine that letter the original, I mean was typed on!" "You do? Great Scott! Whose, then?" "Uncle Simon Crood's! Fact!" "Whew! So the old fossil's got such a modern invention as a typewriter, has he? And you think " "Don't think I know! He's had a typewriter for years; it's an old-fashioned thing, a good deal worn out.
Talk about 'armony! It was a love-feast!" "Your ma and I took to each other right from the start, Horace," said Mrs Parker softly "That's the difference." "Well, any woman with any sense would take to Miss Mariner. If I told you how near I came to spilling the sauce-boat accidentally over that old fossil's head, you'd be surprised, Ellen. She just sat there brooding like an old eagle.
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