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Regarding Lyle, I observed the wonderful resemblance between her and her mother, and it has been to me a source both of joy and of pain, especially of late, since it has grown so marked, and I have sometimes wondered that you did not observe it for yourself." "Now that I can see the resemblance so plainly, it seems strange that I did not think of it before," Houston replied.
As Houston at last freed him, the little fellow tried to rise, but sank quickly back, with an involuntary cry: "I guess I'm done fer Mister Houston," he gasped faintly, "but I don't care if you only get out safe." The smoke and gases were now pouring down the shaft, and Houston realized that there was no time to be lost.
I do not want to know it." She spoke to the Indian in Sioux then and drew away, her eyes on the tracings of a snowshoe. Houston, pointing with his head, gave the Indian his directions. "A woman is sick in a cabin, two miles straight west from here. Get Ba'tiste Renaud and take him there. Turn away from the stream at a tall, dead lodgepole and go to the left. You will see the cabin.
A second despatch from General Houston gave Fanning the option of retiring behind the Guadalupe; or, if his men wished it, of marching to the relief of the Alamo, in which latter case he was to join Houston and his troops at Seguin's Rancho, about forty miles from St Antonio.
Words came from the swollen lips of Houston, but the voice was hoarse, strained, unnatural: "They've started the fight! They've " "It's on the second grade, up from Tollifer. It's fairly easy there, you know, for ten or twelve miles. They're making that without difficulty their work won't come until they strike the snowsheds at Crystal Lake.
"The mother " and a necessary lie came to his lips "became unconscious before she could tell me anything except that the baby had been baptized and called Helena. She wanted a priest." "I'll look after it. There's clothing?" "Yes. In the pack. But wait where does the Father live?" The man pointed the way. Houston went on to a repetition of his story and a fulfillment of his duties.
Houston was inexpressibly astonished and touched to find that the beautiful girl, whom he had considered friendless and helpless, and whom he had defended through a sense of chivalry, had, in return, served him so nobly and so opportunely. He resolved to see her and express to her his appreciation of what she had done, as early as possible.
We must all acknowledge that Lyle certainly has a wonderful voice; as I said before, I have heard but one like it." "Great Heavens!" said Rutherford, with more feeling than Houston had ever seen him manifest, "I'm sorry for that girl, Houston." "Why?" asked Houston quietly.
For Houston knew that the lives of all the Americans in Mexico were in danger, besides which, he was needed to secure the peace and independence of Texas. It required Houston's influence, however, to convince men whose fathers and brothers and sons had been brutally massacred at Goliad and the Alamo, that their private vengeance must give way to the public good.
It is sufficient that Mrs. Jarvis will be delighted to see you without an invitation, and that Mrs. Houston would, at least, think it odd, were you to take the same liberty with her." "It follows," said Sir George, smiling, "that Mrs. Jarvis is much the most hospitable person of the two." "But, Eve, what shall be done with Captain Truck and Mr. Bragg?" asked Grace. "We cannot take them to Mrs.
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