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"Hoyt went over the rocks," said he, calmly, while we still drew back from the pool affrighted, our hearts in our boots I make sure, and not one of us that did not begin to think of the fog again when he saw the devil-fish struggling to be free. "It's not a sweet road, but better than none at all. Keep behind me, boys, and mind you don't slip or you'll find something worse than sharks.
"Oh, I know all that tommy-rot," cried Hoyt, angrily, "but when anything happens I want to know the reason why and how it is done." "All right," answered his employer, "then you might explain why and how the sun rises." But he humored the young man sufficiently to examine with him the baths in which the plates were submerged, and the plates themselves.
Hoyt was the enthusiast of the party, and it was his ambition to kill a deer, although the inhumane act was prohibited at that season of the year. Our leading guide was called Aaron Burr Sturgis. Thursday evening Hoyt insisted upon going out deer hunting upon the lake. Burr took charge of him. Hoyt had a shot, but missed the deer. Friday evening the effort was renewed with the same result.
"From Fort Sibley, Alice?" "Yes, mamma, all three, Miss Craven, Mrs. Hoyt, and Mr. Jerrold. Would you like to see it?" And, with rising color, she held forth the one in her hand. "Not now," was the answer, with a smile that told of confidence and gratification both. "It is about the german, I suppose?" "Yes.
Two Sisters, Hopewell, Symetry, Generous Friends, Bridgewater, Thames, Amity's Production, Tartar, Duchess of Gordon, Littledale, William and Mary, and Free Briton, which are to carry Companies commanded by Sylvanus Whitney, Joseph Gorham, Henry Thomas, John Forrester, Thomas Elms, John Cock, Joseph Clarke, James Hoyt, Christopher Benson, Joseph Forrester, Thomas Welch, Oliver Bourdet, Asher Dunham, Abia.
With regard to them, I have nothing to say, except that your visit could be paid just as well, say in a fortnight after we land." "Unfortunately," I answered, "that would not suit me. To be frank with you, Miss Van Hoyt would have left." "If I can arrange," Mr. de Valentin continued, with some eagerness, "that she should not have left!" I hesitated for a moment.
"And the best campaign managers," added Uncle John, with a proud smile. "That may be true," admitted Beth. "But the thing that really won the fight was Patsy's sore tooth." James and Mr. Burke met the great specialist in brain diseases at the noon train on Wednesday and drove him to Elmhurst. Dr. Hoyt was a handsome, gray-haired man, with kindly eyes and a distinguished manner.
There was never a chance for me after I entered the portals of this hotel. I knew that; but I backed my luck. I thought that I might have had time to finish my work to lay the match to the gunpowder." "Listen," I said, "there is a lady a young lady staying here, a Miss Van Hoyt." "Well?" "It was her suggestion that I should take you away with me!" His eyes seemed to dilate as he stared at me.
There I found my brothers Lampson and Hoyt employed in the "Gazette" printing-office, and spent much time with them and Charles Anderson, Esq., visiting his brother Larz, Mr. Longworth, some of his artist friends, and especially Miss Sallie Carneal, then quite a belle, and noted for her fine voice, On the 20th I took passage on the steamboat Manhattan for St. Louis; reached Louisville, where Dr.
Alvord and Hoyt had a plan which Bird did not approve. Pierce and myself took no part in the debate; we had accepted Bird as leader and we chose to follow him. We were quartered in a log house that had been built for the use of some railway surveyors, but it was then occupied by a man who went by the name of Wood. It was rumored that he was a refugee from Lowell, Mass.
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