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Bush, "that was a strong case. I was hoping to hear that there was a mistake about it." Maj. Clymer said: "Well, I hope he was acquitted. I have slept many a time on my horse during a hard march, when if I had been placed on guard-duty I would have gone to sleep in five minutes." "So have I," said Capt. Zeke Inglesby. "Yes, yes.
"When I got my reason on straight, I went back to the starting point the letters, parson, the letter in the safe in Hunter's office. Given the letters she'd be free the one thing Inglesby doesn't want to happen. We've got to have those letters." My mouth was parched as with fever and I saw him through a blur.
Catharines, in Canada, at the meeting about which I have heretofore spoken. Many of our best men had to return home from the army for a brief period and canvass as stump orators before the people, in order to quiet their apprehensions and fears as to the chances of our ultimate success." "Yes," said Capt. Inglesby, "I well remember the very great anxiety then amongst our people.
Go up against him yourself? You're not strong enough, either, young man, whatever you may be later on. You can prod him into firing some poor kids from his mills but you can't make him feed 'em after he's fired 'em, can you? And you can't keep him from becoming Senator Inglesby either, unless," he paused impressively, "you can match him even with a man his money and pull can't beat. Now think."
He had not changed, and she perceived his effect upon others older and wiser than herself. And her pride chose neither to slight nor to ignore him now, but rather to meet him casually, with indifference, as a stranger in whom she was not at all interested. Mr. Inglesby she did not take seriously.
Also, even more vehemently, Mr. Inglesby desires to lead to the altar Miss Mary Virginia Eustis: yourself, dear lady, your charming self: again, why not? Who can blame him for so natural and laudable an ambition? "As to his ever persuading you to become Mrs. Inglesby, without some ah moral suasion, why, you know what his chance would be better than I do.
He is a disease with you. Good heaven, what could Inglesby possibly have to do with Mary Virginia's affairs?" "That's what I'm wondering. Well, then, who is it?" "Perhaps," said I, unwillingly, "it is Mary Virginia herself." "Forget it! She's not that sort." "She is a woman." "Ain't it the truth, though?" he jeered.
But if she were to ask the Parish House people for any help within their power, she could be sure of receiving it without stint. If she could get to the Parish House without anybody knowing where she was, Inglesby and Hunter would be balked of that interview to-morrow night.
That agent will be everywhere pretty soon. The town will fall for him. Say, how many of you folks know what Inglesby really wants, anyhow?" "Everything in sight," said Laurence promptly. "And something around the corner, too. He wants to come out in the open and be IT. He intends to be a big noise in Washington. Gentlemen, Senator Inglesby! Well, why not?" "He hasn't said so, has he?"
Major Cartwright had kept George Inglesby out of two coveted clubs, for all his wealth; he was stiff as the proverbial poker to Howard Hunter, for all that gentleman's impeccable connections; he met John Flint, not as through a glass darkly, but face to face.
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