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Updated: June 18, 2025
Among the earliest Irish Catholics came James Cullom and Margaret, his wife, who acquired land at Site 34. Other names of the earlier Irish generations are Hugh Clark, who acquired land at Site 116, James Rooney, Fergus Fahey, James Doyle, Kate Leary, James Hopper, who settled in Pawling or Hurd's Corner, and David Burns, who became a landowner at Site 117.
Hurd's undisguised homage gratified her maternal heart, coming so soon after that great insult to her daughter; and then she said to herself: "At any rate, he will help me cure her of 'the Wretch." She was not easy in her mind, though; could not tell what would come of it all. So she watched her daughter's pensive face as only mothers watch; and saw a little of the old peach bloom creeping back.
There was Hurd's mill, a blacksmith shop at Massic Falls, a few other such establishments as a country village usually affords, and several substantial dwelling-houses, farmhouses, and cottages, conspicuous among which was the Livermore House in Belvidere. The operations of the Merrimack Company soon attracted settlers.
Tea at John M. Hurd's was something, comparatively a more vital factor to Wilkinson, who lived in a cheap boarding house, than to its other partakers, and Isabel Hurd was something more. He felt a sincere admiration for Isabel, and his admiration had the substantial foundation of real respect.
Hurd's response to this greeting could only be denominated a grunt, but his visitor had no desire to force an issue of cordiality, so, waiving the doubtful courtesy of this reply, he continued: "Mrs. Hurd is well, I trust?" "Mrs. Hurd is quite well, thank you.
It seemed that the editor was an old acquaintance of Hurd's and had been extricated by him from some trouble connected with cards. The editor, to show his gratitude, and because that Hurd's experiences, thrown into the form of a story, could not fail to interest the public, was only too willing to make a liberal arrangement.
Isabel's of age, and if she chooses to marry Charlie she can do so, but without approval or assistance from her father." "Meaning," said Smith, "an unpleasant codicil in the paternal last will and testament, providing that instead of a previous bequest, his beloved daughter be paid two hundred dollars a month as long as she lives. What does Wilkinson say to Mr. Hurd's attitude?
"And if he is miserable here, my father will have no energy to do anything. He will not care what happens. He will defy everybody, and just spend what he has on himself. And it will make me wretched wretched. Look at that cottage to the right, Mr. Raeburn. It is Jim Hurd's a man who works mainly on the Church Farm, when he is in work. But he is deformed, and not so strong as others.
The sentence ended so incisively that South Framingham blinked. Any display of emotion more significant was not, perhaps, to be expected. The messenger and his message started vaguely toward the door of Mr. Hurd's private office, and for an awkward moment no sound came forth. "He says to come in," said South Framingham, reappearing.
For an instant after Hurd's death sentence had been spoken Marcella's nerves ceased to throb the long exhaustion of feeling stopped.
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