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"The city has surrendered," said that officer. They counted on a burst of anger. Colfax only groaned. "Then you can afford to be generous," he said, with a bitter laugh. "But you haven't whipped us yet, by a good deal. Jennison," he cried, "Jennison, why in hell did you give up?" "Colfax," said Stephen, coming forward, "you're too sick a man to talk. I'll look up the General.
Edwards, while Mr. Jennison drew out a watch that had served at many a cadet fight. "Ready, sir," replied Spurlock. "Ready, sir," added Prescott. "This fight," announced the referee, "is to be to a finish. The rounds will last two minutes each, with a minute's rest between. Queensbury rules will be followed as far as they can be made to apply.
Tell me," said he "when the redoubt over the Jackson road was blown up, they said a nigger came down in your lines alive. Is that so?" "Yes," said Stephen, smiling; "he struck near the place where my company was stationed. His head ached a mite. That seemed to be all." "I reckon he fell on it," said Colonel Catesby Jennison, as if it were a matter of no special note.
We've eaten all the mules and rats and sugar cane in town." Whereupon he drew from his hip a dented silver flask. The Colonel remarked that Stephen's eyes fell on the coat of arms. "Prope'ty of my grandfather, seh, of Washington's Army. My name is Jennison, Catesby Jennison, at your service, seh," he said. "You have the advantage of me, Captain." "My name is Brice," said Stephen.
The decisive case was the prosecution of Nathaniel Jennison of Worcester County for assault and imprisonment alleged to have been committed upon his absconded slave Quork Walker in the process of his recovery. On the trial in 1783 the jury responded to a strong anti-slavery charge from Chief Justice Cushing by returning a verdict against Jennison, and the court fined him £50 and costs.
He edged over close to the plainsman and, in a pause in the talk, whispered to him: "I want you to tell me more about the Indians." The other man turned quickly and said: "Boy, they're my friends. In a show-down I'm on their side; my father was a half-breed." The night passed quietly and nearly all the men went home, leaving the Pratts to meet the storm alone, but Jennison had a final word.
The whole tribe of informers they applauded and rewarded: Jennison, Turberville, Dugdale, Smith, La Faria, appeared before them; and their testimony, however frivolous or absurd, met with a favorable reception: the king was applied to in their behalf for pensions and pardons: their narratives were printed with that sanction which arose from the approbation of the house: Dr.
"As for the name," Jennie resumed, more seriously, "you say my middle one was given me for you; why not transpose it and call me Mildred Jennison Arnold? Then I can keep them all, and it will not seem out of place to still address me as 'Jennie." This was regarded as a happy thought, and, as soon as the necessary papers could be made out, she became Alfred Arnold's legally adopted daughter.
"This is too much, Jennison," came from the bed a voice that was pitifully weak; "why do you bring Yankees in here?" "Captain Brice is a friend of yours, Colfax," said the Colonel, tugging at his mustache. "Brice?" repeated Clarence, "Brice? Does he come from St. Louis?" "Do you come from St. Louis, sir?" "Yes. I have met Captain Colfax " "Colonel, sir." "Colonel Colfax, before the war!
But afterward he winced, "If that white worm had the nerve to try to drag me back to the Old Church Home, then the holy outfit must have been doing a lot of talking about me, too." He heard them whispering whispering Dr. John Jennison Drew, Cholmondeley Frink, even William Washington Eathorne.
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