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By the time she remembered to ask about it the captain had decided not to tell. He fabricated some excuse or other, and the excuse was accepted, to his great relief. None of the Dott household attended the Wainwright recital. Mr. Holway called on Wednesday, just after luncheon, to say that he had obtained the necessary cards, but his kindness went for nought.
But I noticed that he hadn't spoke for nary Conservative but himself. "Then Gaius Ellis rises and sobs similar. He's stopped votin' for himself, too. His ballot is for that grand and good man, Gabriel Atkinson Holway, Esq. More applause and hurrahs. "And then who should get up but Jotham Gale.
She grew gayer and more gay, more careless in her manner and more slangy in her speech. Mr. Holway continued to call and Cousin Percy to dance solicitous attendance. John Doane's name was never mentioned in his fiancee's presence. She would not speak, or permit others to speak, of him. And then Mr. Holway ceased to call.
"Lost, and all in," Holway said in a whisper to Dud. The other man nodded. Neither of them made a move toward the stranger, who stopped in front of their camp and looked with glazed eyes from one to another. His face was drawn and haggard and lined. Extreme exhaustion showed in every movement. He babbled incoherently. "Seven eighteen ninety-nine. 'Atta-boy," he said thickly.
What do my eyes see before me young Luke Holway, that went wi' his regiment to the East Indies, or do I see his spirit straight from the battlefield? Be you the son that wrote the letter 'Don't don't ask me. The funeral is over, then? 'There wer no funeral, in a Christen manner of speaking. But's buried, sure enough. You must have met the men going back in the empty cart.
There has been a notable deficiency of young fathers and, still more notably, of young mothers." And did you ever see the study which Mr. R. S. Holway made for the Department of Education of Leland Stanford University on "The Age of Parents: Its Effects upon Children"? His conclusions are: "In most physical qualities the children of mature parents tend to come out best.
Sergeant- Major Holway had been found shot through the head by his own hand at the cross-roads in Long Ash Lane where his father lay buried. On the table in the cottage he had left a piece of paper, on which he had written his wish that he might be buried at the Cross beside his father.
Foreign service had so totally changed Luke Holway that it was not until he told his name that the inhabitants recognized him as the sergeant's only son.
All right, don't you worry about me. I can stand it, I guess. Where's your mother and and Cousin Percy?" "Mother is in the next room with Mrs. Cousin Percy is Oh, here he comes now." Hungerford appeared, strolling in their direction. He seemed surprised when he saw his relatives in company with Mr. Holway. "Hello, Monty!" he said. "You here? How are you?" The two young men shook hands.
The Bohemians, however, did not blush; neither, to his amazement, did Serena, who looked on and applauded with the rest. He found some comfort in the absence of his daughter, who was not among the seated guests, but, at last, even this comfort was dispelled. He caught a glimpse of Gertrude, still accompanied by the attentive Mr. Holway, standing in the back row.
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