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After Captain Fray's death, however, the cannon was sold by his widow to the Native Sons of Nevada, and the news of the sale soon spread abroad and caused no little commotion. To say that the people were astonished is to put it mildly. They were in a state of consternation. Frémont's cannon sold and going to be removed? Impossible! No! it was so!
Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair. Laban Tall's lips were thin, and his face were rigid. Matthew's jaws sank, and his eyes turned whichever way the strongest muscle happened to pull them.
Fray's forehead was wrinkled both perpendicularly and crosswise, after the pattern of a portcullis, expressive of a double despair. Laban Tall's lips were thin, and his face was rigid. Matthew's jaws sank, and his eyes turned whichever way the strongest muscle happened to pull them.
Under Miss Fray's directions I have been amusing myself with trying to defeat that purpose.
Unsuccessful in her cheerful attempts with Vesty, Jane Pray had turned to me. But Vesty resented her companion's question, almost involuntarily turning to me with a quick and awful pity. But I had to bring my thoughts back from a long way to answer Miss Fray's question. "No," I said. "I settled that with God long ago. It is all right between us."
The door was slightly ajar; and with whatever shame I have only to record that I stood with delectation by this door and waited for the Man-Who-had-Been-in-California to tell "The Story of the Sacred Cow." "Arter all, Jane," said he, plunging his knife into a choice pear, "you'd orter seen the winter fruit we use' ter have in Californy!" Miss Fray's face fell.
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