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And yet, though self-control might restrain worry from the surface, it could not banish it from the private chambers of her being. Mrs. De Peyster glanced at the open door of her bedroom hesitated then called: "Miss Gardner!" A trim and pretty girl stepped in. "Yes, Mrs. De Peyster." "Will you please call up Judge Harvey's office once more, and inquire if there is any news about my son.
He suddenly gripped Harvey's hand, holding it for a moment with a silent, nervous pressure, and Harvey felt the perspiration on his palm. "I made a mistake, West, and I've paid for it I'm paying for it now. If I hadn't If I had made it right, she would have been you would have " The words seemed to choke him, and with a strange expression he loosened his grip and started toward the door.
Edward Harvey's heart almost burst with helpless rage and wretchedness when he saw his precious sisters dragged within the canvas shelter, saw the tall, uniformed brigand leap lightly after them, and heard him shout to the ready driver, "Now, off with you!"
Evremonde, till they were joined by Drummond, when he left her and walked with Harry, and apparently shadowed the young gentleman's unreflective face; after which Harry was drawn away by the appearance of that dark star, the Countess de Saldar, whom Rose was beginning to detest. Jenny glided by William Harvey's side, far off.
The old hero dandled me in his arms, saying "So this is Harvey's boy," I looking the while in vain for the "hickory," of which I had heard so much. On the personal side history owes General Jackson reparation. His personality needs indeed complete reconstruction in the popular mind, which misconceives him a rough frontiersman having few or none of the social graces.
You know Harvey's saying, omnia animalia ex ovo, all animals come from an egg. You ought to know it, for the great controversy going on about spontaneous generation has brought it into special prominence lately. Well, then, the ovum, the egg, is, to speak in human phrase, the Creator's more private and sacred studio, for his magnum opus.
What interested him particularly in it was the fact that he had met a couple of these financial highwaymen in social life; he had come to know the son and heir of one of them quite well, at Siegfried Harvey's. This gilded youth was engaged to be married in a very few days, and the papers had it that the father-in-law had presented the bride with a cheque for a million dollars.
Jim Weeks had faced many problems, he had gone lightly into many battles, but never before had his energies been so set upon a single object. Jim drove direct to Harvey's rooms, and, finding them dark, walked in, lighted up, drew down the curtains, and sank wearily into the easy-chair. He was by this time near his old self, save for the wrinkles about his eyes, which seemed deeper.
Harvey's countenance changed. 'Do you mean that you tell them so? 'Not in any disagreeable way, of course. It's so natural, now, for married people to have each their own world. 'So it is, he acquiesced. Alma would have gone to Gunnersbury the very next day, but she feared to excite some suspicion in her husband's mind.
"Shut the big doors, so the neighbors can't hear 'em holler, and then give it to 'em good!" "Yes, give it to 'em, Squire!" Asa exclaimed. "They need it." The old Squire was following after them, cracking his whip, for I suppose he thought it well to frighten the scamps thoroughly. It was too dark for me to see Alfred's face or Harvey's, but they had little to say.
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