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Even if I hit Bruce by mistake, he'd rather die by a Christian Yankee-made bullet than " Just then the scythelike machine-gun fire reached the hillcrest combatants. And in the same instant a shell smote the ground, apparently between them. Up went a geyser of smoke and dirt and rocks.
No, no, she would not allow herself to think of it; she must not think, she must act, and she urged Brownie on. At the top of the hill just out of Hillcrest, to her great relief, she met Dr. Morison riding. She quickly explained her errand, and it was now his turn to ride hard. "Don't wait for me," said Marjory; "I'll follow." Brownie had done his work well, and must be considered.
"Bless your dear old heart, Harry, you deserve to be shaken to death if you're not the happiest man alive. I MUST hurry home and see you both with my own eyes, and learn to believe that all this wonderful glorious thing has come to pass. "With love and congratulations, The other letter, which I opened with considerable reverence and more delight, ran as follows: "HILLCREST, June 29, 1875.
We kept pushing along, although their fire, both shrapnel and small arms, was murdering us; but on we came, through the tropical underbrush, and wading a stream up to our chests, firing when we could see the enemy. We reached the first line along a hillcrest and drove them out; then the next line, and they then started back to the city.
I've often thought about the sweet young lady who came out in the dark and the cold to speak to me. I was very miserable then, and you wanted to do me a good turn, though you had done me a bad one all unbeknown to yourself or me either, and I want to thank you heartily, miss." "I went to Hillcrest the next morning to see you," said Marjory shyly, "for I suddenly thought perhaps you might be Mrs.
Britt was known throughout the parish as an excellent cook, though of late years few people were ever allowed the privilege of tasting her dainties. This was her husband's fault, and not hers. She was naturally of a sociable disposition, and fond of company. But Captain Josh's crankiness had antagonised every person in Hillcrest, and it was Mrs. Britt who suffered the most.
"Shut up yourself it's you I love," she answered. The little sun was half sunk behind the Horizon. The 'copter was only a hundred feet away, along the hillcrest. That was when it happened. Two dull, plopping sounds came almost together. If a thinking animal can use the pressure of a confined gas to propel small missiles, is there any reason why other intelligences can't do the same?
He maintains a detective force on his own account and his spies discovered that Hillcrest is being watched by agents of the Secret Service." "Dear me; what a maze of deceit!" wailed the good woman. "I wish you were well out of the whole affair, Peter; and I wish Mary Louise was out of it, too." "So do I, with all my heart. But it's coming to a focus soon, Hannah.
That she was pleased was to him a greater reward than all the wild cheering of the scouts. It took the Hillcrest troop a long time to get settled down after the excitement of the Review. Whenever they met at Headquarters they could do nothing but discuss everything that had taken place. For awhile they were greatly puzzled as to how the Lieutenant-Governor had learned so much about them.
He confided to Jock Filmer his desire for immediate marriage, and good-natured Jock, his system permeated by gossip, consented to send down to the Junction since Joyce objected to the hell-fire minister at Hillcrest and bring a harmless wayfarer of the cloth, who Murphy, the engineer of the daily branch train, had said, was summering there.
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