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'Captain Topsawyer was bad enough, and always pressed far too close on the hounds, but he would pull up at a check; but this rusty-booted 'bomination seems to think the hounds are kept for him to ride over. He must be got rid of somehow, repeated his lordship; 'for we shall have no peace while he's here. 'If he's after either of the Jawley girls, he'll be bad to shake off, observed Jack.
I have the honor and pleasure to propose, with three times three, the Honorable B. Jawley Ele."
And the General bowed out the representative so imperatively that the Honorable B. Jawley Ele felt very much as if he had been kicked down stairs. There was an unnatural silence and order in the store of Boniface Newt, Son, & Co. The long linen covers were left upon the goods. The cases were closed. The boys sat listlessly and wonderingly about. The porter lay upon a bale reading a newspaper.
While he was busily looking at the portrait of General Jackson, General Belch stepped up to him and put out his hand. "Good-night, my dear Ele! Thank you! thank you! These things will not be forgotten. Good-night! good-night!" And he backed the Honorable B. Jawley Ele out of the room into the hall. "This is your coat, I think," said he, taking up a garment and helping Mr. Ele to get it on.
On the same day the Honorable B. Jawley Ele rose in his place in Congress to announce the calamity in which the whole country shared, and to move an adjournment in respect for the memory of his late colleague "a man endeared to us all by the urbanity of his deportment and his social graces; but to me especially, by the kindness of his heart and the readiness of his sympathy."
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