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It seems to me to be a very fair and equitable division just as it is." In the end it stood just that way. On that very same afternoon, the youth and beauty, also the age and wisdom, of both Hollis Creek and Meadow Brook, gathered around the ball field of the former resort, to watch the Titanic struggle for victory between the two picked nines.
Hollis sat by the bed, nursing him with the aching tenderness that only a childless woman can know. Below, in the depths of a big feather-bed, the judge slept in peaceful unconcern, disturbing the silence by a series of long, loud, and unmelodious snores. "Is that the Nelson phaëton going out the road?" asked Mrs. Hollis as she peered out through the dining-room window one morning.
There was Canton at second, Hollis at short, Burns at third, who had been picked for the last year's All-American College Team. Then there was Dreer, brightest star of all, the fleet, hard-hitting centre-fielder. This player particularly fascinated Ken. It was a beautiful sight to see him run. The ground seemed to fly behind him.
For a long time Hollis continued to urge the animal he cajoled, threatened but the pony would not budge. Hollis was forced to the uncomfortable realization that it had lost the trail.
I knew one of the ship-carpenters in Elwell's yard, Levi Woodbury, and he was telling me about some of the vessels that had been launched lately. "Of course," he said, "you saw the one launched a few days ago from here that one built for Mr. Withrow?" I said I had, and that she was a wonder to look at and that I wished Maurice Blake, and not Sam Hollis, was to have her.
Hollis money for that? Why! Mr. Hollis never told me of it!" In the course of a long professional experience Easleby had learned to control his facial expression; Starmidge was gradually progressing towards perfection in that art. But each man was hard put to it to check an expression of astonishment. And Easleby showed some slight sign of perplexity when he replied. "Mr.
And on examination it was found he was unable to speak the English tongue; but Lord Hollis, entering into conversation with him in the French language, ascertained that he was a servant of the Portuguese ambassador, and knew not of what he was accused, or why he had been maltreated.
"But I can't afford to nurse this hand" Hollis rose from the couch where he had thrown himself when he came in from the doctor's office "I ought to be using it now." He went over and drew the blinds, but the atmosphere seemed more stifling. He needed air, plenty of it, clean and fresh in God's out-of-doors; it was being penned in these close rooms that raised his temperature.
I got the Bible down last Sunday night and read a chapter in the New Testament. If you haven't got a Bible, I'll give you money to buy one." "Oh, I have one," said Hollis uneasily. "Git up, there!" shouted Captain Rheid to his horses, and spoke not another word all the way home.
He looked searchingly at Hollis. "I've never seen you before," he said. "Who are you?" "I am Kent Hollis." The young man's eyes lighted. "Not Jim Hollis's son?" he asked. Hollis nodded. The young man's face revealed genuine pleasure. "You going to stay in this here country?" he asked. "I am going to run the Circle Bar," returned Hollis slowly. "Bully!" declared the young man.
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