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If you offered me all the gold dug in these mountains since they were discovered, I could only say what I have said before. You came from Sylvester's ranch there is time for you to get back ere the snow begins." "What a hospitable man you are! Upon my word, Gundry, you deserve to have a medal from our Humane Society.
Never having seen such a thing before, I was frightened, and longed to know more of it. Mr. Gundry had a good laugh at me, in which even Suan Isco joined, when I proposed to sweep a path to the mill, and keep it open through the winter. "It can be done I am sure it can," I exclaimed, with vigorous ignorance. "May I do it if I can? It only requires perseverance.
"That is most discouraging. However, you may think better of it. Write to this address if you do. You have the girl here, of course?" "That is her concern and mine. Does your guide know the way right well! The snow is beginning. You do not know our snows, any more than you know us." "Never mind, Mr. Gundry. I shall do very well.
He was buried in a bed of lava on the western slope of Shasta, and his wife died in her confinement, and was buried by the Blue River. It was said at the time and long afterward that Elijah Gundry thus cut short was the finest and noblest young man to be found from the mountains to the ocean.
We have an extradition treaty. If the man had been alive, we must have had him. But as he has cheated the hangman by dying, we can only see his grave and have evidence. And all well-disposed people must rejoice to have such a quiet end of it. For the family is so well known, you see." "I see," Mr. Gundry answered, quietly, laying a finger on his lips.
Gundry and other good friends around me, I had no bitter sense as yet of my own dependence and poverty. But the vile thing I had heard about my father, the horrible slander and wicked falsehood for such I was certain it must be this was continually in my thoughts, and quite destroyed my cheerfulness. And the worst of it was that I never could get my host to enter into it.
And when it became too plain that he did so, truly I know not whether grief or anger was uppermost in my troubled heart. Before very long it was manifest enough that Mr. Gundry looked down upon Miss Sylvester with a large contempt.
The same year, Daniel Llewellyn acknowledged a deed in Charles City Court, for his stepdaughters Sara Woodward and Anne Gundry. Notwithstanding the limitations put upon women of the seventeenth century, both by custom and by law, their husbands evidently had complete confidence in their discretion and their abilities to direct wisely the disposition of estates, which came into their hands.
And your eyes are so bright about it, miss, that the whole of your heart must be running upon it." "Then you think me as bad as the rest of the world! How I wish that I had never seen it! It was only for you that I cared about it for you, for you; and I will never touch a scrap of it." Mr. Gundry had only been trying me, perhaps.
Ephraim Gundry had been well taught, in all the common things a man should learn, at a good quiet school at Frisco, which distinguished itself from all other schools by not calling itself a college.
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