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Updated: June 5, 2025
Just get Manners on to it, and you'll have no trouble. He loves lecturing; and he talks just like a history-book. Tell him you've been reading his History and want a bird's-eye view." Monsignor started. "Why, yes," he said, "and that'll tell me the facts, too." "Excellent. Now, Monsignor, I must go. Just look round the rooms well, and get to know where things are kept.
Joe groaned again, in another fashion Then his history-book caught his eye, and he groaned yet again and in still another fashion. "All right," he called. "Go on. I 'll be down in a jiffy."
I was not quite so uninstructed as to imagine l could reach it that afternoon; but some day, I thought, if things went on being as unpleasant as they were now, some day, when Aunt Eliza had gone on a visit, we would see. I tried to imagine what it would be like when I got there. The Coliseum I knew, of course, from a woodcut in the history-book: so to begin with I plumped that down in the middle.
Virginia Witherspoon was the daughter of a Confederate general whose name you read in every history-book; and she had a famous old home in the country which was falling about her ears her husband being seldom sober enough to know what was happening.
As it was, I had set off at seven o'clock on the following evening, and at a quarter past nine I was asking at the Hermitage for Count Joseph, just as full of the story I had to tell as a history-book of kings.
In fact, according to his history-book there had been little but wars in this peaceful nation: the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the incessant frontier wars with the Indians, the Kansas War, the Mormon War, the War for the Union. The echoes of the latter had not yet died away. What a career he might have had if he had not been born so late in the world!
In fact, according to his history-book there had been little but wars in this peaceful nation: the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the incessant frontier wars with the Indians, the Kansas War, the Mormon War, the War for the Union. The echoes of the latter had not yet died away. What a career he might have had if he had not been born so late in the world!
By this time the footman was coughing in the corridor. "That's English history, I guess," Tembarom replied. "I'll have to get a history-book and read up about the Crusades." He went on farther, and paused with a slightly puzzled expression before a boy in a costume of the period of Charles II. "Who's this Fauntleroy in the lace collar?" he inquired. "Queer!" he added, as though to himself.
There was something dreadful and ghastly about this forest, which had the breathless odor of a cellar. And suddenly Letitia heard again those strange sounds she had heard before coming out, and she knew that they were savage whoops of Indians, just as she had read about them in her history-book, and she saw also dark forms skulking about behind the trees, as she had read.
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