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The new staff of the department included Lieutenant-Colonel Richard B. Irwin, Assistant Adjutant-General; Lieutenant-Colonel William S. Abert, Assistant Inspector-General; Major G. Norman Lieber, Judge-Advocate; Colonel Samuel B. Holabird, Chief Quartermaster; Colonel Edward G. Beckwith, Chief Commissary of Subsistence; Surgeon Richard H. Alexander, Medical Director; Major David C. Houston, Chief Engineer; Captain Henry L. Abbot, Chief of Topographical Engineers; First-Lieutenant Richard M. Hill, Chief of Ordnance; Captain Richard Arnold, Chief of Artillery; Captain William W. Rowley, Chief Signal Officer.
It was October, now, and his orders might come any day. Then we might not see him again for three years, perhaps. On the Thursday of that next week, Barbara said she would go down and see Mrs. Goldthwaite. "I think it quite time you should," said Mrs. Holabird. Barbara had not been down there once since the wedding-day.
We were very much astonished when Grandfather Holabird came in and told us, one morning, of his having bought it, the empty Beaman house, that nobody had lived in for five years. The Haddens had bought the land for somebody in their family who wanted to come out and build, and so the old house was to be sold and moved away; and nobody but old Mr. Holabird owned land near enough to put it upon.
Roderick; and we knew afterward what her abstract report had been, in Grandfather Holabird's hearing. Grandfather Holabird knew we did without a good many things; but he had an impression of us, from instances like these, that we were seized with sudden spasms of recklessness at times, and rushed into French embroideries and sets of jewelry.
Holabird." He shook hands with Barbara, it chanced that she stood nearest, bade us all good night, and went away. We turned back silently into the brown room. We were all quite hushed from our late excitement. What strange things were happening to-night! All in a moment something so solemn and important was put into our minds.
"I believe I think it's rather nice to settle that I can be contrary. I don't like to be pat-a-caked." She was glad, afterward, that Mrs. Holabird understood. The next morning Elinor Hadden and Leslie Goldthwaite walked over, to ask the girls to go down into the wood-hollow to get azaleas. Rosamond and Ruth went. So it was her gift to be ready and to receive.
In the first place, she has got into the habit of carrying home all the news she can, and making it as big as possible, to amuse Mr. Holabird; and then she has to settle it over in her own mind, every once in a while, that things must be pretty comfortable amongst us, down here, after all."
It seems as if we might bring the kitchen up stairs, instead of going down into the kitchen." "But the stove," said mother. "I think," said Barbara, boldly, "that a cooking-stove, all polished up, is just as handsome a thing as there is in a house!" "It is clumsy, one must own," said Mrs. Holabird, "besides being suggestive." "So is a piano," said the determined Barbara.
"They may 'take it off your hands, my dear," suggested the remorseless Barbara. Somebody had offered to do that once for Mrs. Holabird, when her husband had had an interest in a ship in the Baltic trade, and some furs had come home, richer than we had quite expected.
"I didn't mean to make a fuss about it; only I knew you would all care, and I wanted Stephen and I have found something, mother!" She turned to Mrs. Stephen Holabird, and took her hand, and held it hard. Stephen stooped down, and drew out the loose board. "Under there," said he; and pointed in.
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