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If her father went out of her life too, it seemed to Janice as though she would be an orphan indeed. So, without knowing anything personally about her Aunt Almira or Uncle Jason or Marty, her cousin, the girl felt that their association could in no way replace that of daddy. "I just wish something would happen so that I couldn't go to Poketown," was repeated over and over in her thought.
They wouldn't be anywhere without him. The yaps that listen to him don't understand him, but somehow he gets under their skins. Have you seen him lately?" "Never saw him," replied Tallant. "Well, if you had, you'd know he was a sick man." "Sick!" I exclaimed. "How do you know?" "It's my business to know things," said Judd Jason, and added to Tallant, "that your reporters don't find out."
Whether the light of her beautiful brown eyes threw a glory round about her, or whatever the cause might be, Jason fancied that there was something very noble and majestic in her figure after all, and that, though her gait seemed to be a rheumatic hobble, yet she moved with as much grace and dignity as any queen on earth.
But that night Medea came down to Jason, and bade him make haste and follow her, for that her father proposed the next morning to attack the Argonauts and to destroy their ship. They went together to the grove of Mars, where the golden fleece hung guarded by the dreadful dragon, who glared at the hero and his conductor with his great round eyes that never slept.
"Thank you, little man," and Jason grinned again, but his head was dizzy and he did not ride after the crowd. "I'm afeerd fer this ole nag," he lied to Colonel Pendleton, for he was faint at the stomach and the world had begun to turn around. Then he made one clutch for the old nag's mane, missed it, and rolled senseless to the ground.
Equally inevitable was it, too, that the two clans should take the quarrel up, and for half a century the two families had, with intermittent times of truce, been traditional enemies. The boy's father, Jason Hawn, had married a Honeycutt in a time of peace, and, when the war opened again, was regarded as a deserter, and had been forced to move over the spur to the Honeycutt side.
“In this way,” continued Jason Philip, without detecting the scorn in Theresa’s words, “the account between the culprit and myself will be settled. He will become a decent member of society, the money will remain in the family, and Philippina will be cared for.” “And suppose he does not come; suppose he does not fall on his knees; suppose you have made a miscalculation.
He could only be himself here and there, as in that earliest picture of romantic love, as some have called the story of "Dido," not remembering, perhaps, that even here Virgil had before his mind a Greek model, that he was thinking of Apollonius Rhodius, and of Jason and Medea.
Never had a Jason sailed forth with greater determination to find the Golden Fleece of Happiness, but with every passing week he seemed to be further than ever from the winning of his prize. Mary turned it over in her mind for a long time before she found a clue to the answer.
"Go quickly and see if Mr Roe has sent away his trap, and, if not, keep it. If it has gone, go to Jason's and get one directly, Oakshott." In five minutes the baronet returned. "I can't get a trap anywhere," said he dismally, "but I've got Jason to send a horse." "That will do," said Railsford, hurrying down. "Will it do?" groaned Dig. "I can't go too!
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