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A characteristic note in this connection was written by a young Georgia townswoman: "No one is going to church today but myself, as we have a little negro very sick and Mama deems it necessary to remain at home to attend to him." The building was described as having accommodations for fifty or sixty patients. Howell Cobb, Athens, Ga., Nov. 13, 1853. MS. in possession of Mrs.
Josephine will like you for my sake, and you will love her for your brother. Most engineers' lives are busy ones and full of accident and incident, and having my full share of both, I had almost forgotten all these points about Billy Howell and his Mexican girl, when they were all recalled by a letter from Billy himself.
They have a distinctly evil design against the boy." "Benton and Molly are a combination pretty hard to beat," remarked Mr. Howell. "But I thought they were friends of ours." "True. They were. But after the little affair in Marseilles I don't trust them," replied The Sparrow.
Write to me; am doing well. I send you a photograph of all there are of the Howell outfit. No half-breeds for your uncle this time. Very few of my friends know me for a seafaring man, but I sailed the salt seas, man and boy, for nine months and eighteen days, and I know just as much about sailing the hereinbefore mentioned salt seas as I ever want to.
Of words which have risen in the world, the French 'marechal' affords us an excellent example. 'Marechal, as Howell has said, 'at first was the name of a smith-farrier, or one that dressed horses' which indeed it is still 'but it climbed by degrees to that height that the chiefest commanders of the gendarmery are come to be called marshals. But if this has risen, our 'alderman' has fallen.
The corner stakes were found, and the men prepared to pace off the distance between the corners so as to find the centre. "It is a pity there is no timber anywhere," said Howell, discontentedly. "We shall have to go several miles for timber enough to build our cabins. We don't want to cut down right away what little there is along the creek." "Timber?" said Younkins, reflectively. "Timber?
This hath been duly reported, and overseers having thus failed, it doth only remain to abide by the sense of our Meeting. But this I have already said: the matter hath been prayerfully considered." After this, others spoke, but all elder Friends understood that the business had been disposed of, and little attention was given to those who rose after Friend Howell sat down.
Nor was he surprised when Howell told him that he loved his daughter and asked for her hand; indeed, it had been easy to guess their affection, and the old man declared that but for his allegiance to a tyrant he would gladly own him as a son-in-law. It was a long struggle between love and duty that ensued in Howell's breast, and love was victor. If he might marry Ruth he would leave the army.
Howell looked vaguely off over the rolling slope on which they were standing, and said: "We will chance it with the boys on the timber land, but I am not in favor of taking up two claims here. Let the timber claim be in my name or yours, and the boys can live on it. But we can't take up two claims here and the timber besides three in all with only two full-grown men among the whole of us.
Howell, a woman who might have been Jennie Brice. But if it was, why did not Mr. Howell say so? Mr. Ladley claimed she was hiding, in revenge. But Jennie Brice was not that sort of woman; there was something big about her, something that is found often in large women a lack of spite. She was not petty or malicious. Her faults, like her virtues, were for all to see.
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