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It begins with the observation of the conspicuous facts. We have done that. The facts were supplied by Marchmont. The next stage is to propose to oneself one or more provisional explanations or hypotheses. We have done that, too or, at least I have, and I suppose you have." "I haven't," said I. "There is Jeffrey's will, but why he should have made the change I cannot form the foggiest idea.
Essays , i. 84-106. For Jeffrey's desire to avoid 'party politics, see Lockhart's Life of Scott, M. Napier's Correspondence, p. 435, and Homer's Memoirs , i. 464. April 1805; reprinted in Essays, ii. 38, etc., to show, as he says, how early he had taken up his view of the French revolution. Sydney Smith complains in his correspondence of this article as exaggerating the power of the aristocracy.
The major, after a long look at this suffering man, turned toward Miss Tuttle. "You must have loved your sister very much," he sententiously remarked. She flushed and for the first time her eyes fell from their resting-place on Mr. Jeffrey's face. "I loved her reputation," was her quiet answer, "and " The rest died in her throat.
This humiliation falls upon his proud spirit and shattered nerves with an overwhelming force, and his reason fails beneath it. He is for some time a raving maniac, and then falls into a state of gay and compassionable imbecility, which is described with inimitable beauty in the close of this story." Jeffrey's abstract is fairly accurate, save in one particular.
She raised her figure proudly. "Miss Tuttle, you have heard Chloe say that you were in the kitchen of Mr. Jeffrey's house when the grocer boy delivered the candles which had been left by your brother-in-law on the counter of the store where he bought them. Is this true?" "Yes, sir, it is true." "Did you see those candles?" "No, sir." "You did not see them?" "No, sir."
At this moment, and while his apartment was in flames, his large dog jumped on the bed, seized his shirt, and dragged him to the staircase, where the fresh air restored his powers of exertion and of escape. That of fire is as hostile to him as to mankind. November 25. Read Jeffrey's neat and well-intended address to the mechanics upon their combinations. Will it do good? Umph.
Accordingly, the next day he delegated his place to another and took his stand farther down the street. Alas! it was not the same woman's face he saw; but a far different and sadder one. She wore that look of courage and brave hope only in passing Mr. Jeffrey's house. Was it simply an expression of her secret devotion to him or the signal of some compact which had been entered into between them?
Jeffrey's closest friends as unnecessarily dramatic; but when the coroner, lifting out the ribbon, remarked tentatively, "You know this ribbon?" we were more struck by the involuntary cry of surprise which rose from some one in the crowd about the door, than by the look with which Mr. Jeffrey eyed it and made the necessary reply. That cry had something more than nervous excitement in it.
Nor did the floor where it had stood yield any better results to the inquiring eye. Nothing was to be seen there but the marks left by the removal of its base from the blackened boards. Disgusted with myself, if not with this object of my present disappointment, I left that portion of the room in which it stood and crossed to where I had found the little table on the night of Mrs. Jeffrey's death.
"We'll have a colony. There's an awfully nice crowd here already. Bring her out!" They were at the porch steps now and Roxanne made a brisk gesture toward a dilapidated structure on the right. "The garage," she announced. "It will also be Jeffrey's writing-room within the month. Meanwhile dinner is at seven. Meanwhile to that I will mix a cocktail."
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