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But he lived, and he would live unless there were an unnecessary change for the worse. They went softly out of the room again. Elizabeth was grave. Mr. Gainor took her hand. "I think I know what people are saying now, and what they will say hereafter. If Terry's father were any other than Hollis, this affair would soon he forgotten, except as a credit to him.
I think he never forgave the slight, but yet I liked him, and shall ever revere his memory as that of a man who deserved well of his country, and had the noble courage of his profession, as he showed amply in the great yellow-fever plague of '93. He told me of my father as still much the same, and of my Aunt Gainor, and of Darthea, who, he thought, was troubled in mind, although why he knew not.
Joseph hath ever a coat of many colours." "I shall tell him," she cried, laughing. The Quaker rule of repression and non-resistance by no means forbade the use of the brutal bludgeon of sarcasm, as many a debate in Meeting could testify. She rose as she spoke, and my mother said gently: "Thou wilt not tell him, Gainor." Meanwhile I stood amazed at a talk which so deeply concerned me.
Even my Aunt Gainor refused to discuss the question. I must wait; and as this was the single occasion known to me when she had declined a hand at the game of talk, I began to perceive that ignorance is weakness, and so at last, calmly confessing defeat, I waited until those consulting chose to advise me, the patient, of their conclusions. Meanwhile Mrs.
He had a thin, stern face and a hawk nose that gave him a cast of ferocity in certain aspects. It was to him that Terry addressed himself. "Mr. Gainor," he said, "I'm sorry to have sent in a false message. But my business is very urgent, and I have a very particular reason for not wishing to have it known that I have called you out."
One morning, long after my parents left, my Aunt Gainor looked me over with care, pleased at the changes in my dress, and that evening she presented me with two fine sets of neck and wrist ruffles, and with paste buckles for knees and shoes.
Ferguson. "As to those New England Puritans, they were in rebellion before they came over, and have been ever since." "And what of New York, and this town, and Virginia?" said my Aunt Gainor, with her great nose well up. "I would have put an end to their disloyal ways, one and all," cried Mrs. Ferguson. "It is curious," said Mr. Galloway, "that the crown should be so thwarted.
"And what think you, John?" "What will my wife say, Gainor? We have never been a month apart." "Let me talk to her." "Wilt thou share in the venture?" He was testing the sincerity of her advice. "And to what extent?" "Five thousand pounds. You may draw on me from London, and buy powder and muskets," she added, with a smile. "Not I. Why dost thou talk such folly?"
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