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Good old Bantam! We must give her congrats! She'll soon get things into order there! I believe she adores little Kenneth. I've often seen her taking him about the town. She shall have my blessing, by all means!" "We might give her something more substantial than congrats and blessings!" suggested Verity. "I vote we get up a subscription in the form for a decent wedding present!" "Oh yes!
It will take us a day and night to cross the desert and over several mountain peaks to reach you." Eleanor listened delightedly to this innocent youth, and as he concluded she squealed with amusement: "Oh, don't you love it!" "Love what?" asked Kenneth, never having heard this extravagant expression so favored by city misses. "Love you, of course!" retorted Eleanor, laughing.
Yes there he stood on the hearthrug as she had last seen him in that room. But he did not seem to hear her come in, for he made no movement towards her; he did not even turn his head in her direction. More and more startled and perturbed, Anne hastily went up to him. "Kenneth," she cried, "what is it? What is the matter?"
It was Adair who took the bull by the horns when the president's caution was about to turn victory into defeat. What was said or done after the young man drew Mr. Colbrith into the private committee-room at the bank and shut the door, Ford and Kenneth, who were excluded, could only surmise. But whatever was done was well done.
"Ou, aye, me leddy, she's weel eneugh to look upon, if that was a'," replied the housekeeper dryly. "Has she been here long?" "Ever sin' Mr. Kenneth died, me leddy." "Mr.
Kenneth had been their guide and companion in these various explorations, but when the girls went to their rooms he wandered into the library where Uncle John and Mr. Watson had been having a quiet talk over their pipes of tobacco. They welcomed the young man, but adroitly turned the topic of conversation, and again the subject of was rejoined.
I have here the report of the Department of Agriculture showing that the total amount paid to farmers of the eighth district in the last five years, for produce of all kinds, is eleven millions, five-hundred thousand dollars." A murmur of amazement rose from the audience. Kenneth waited until it had subsided.
PERHAPS some of you may have read a book called 'Kenneth; or the Rear-Guard of the Grand Army of Napoleon. If so, you will remember how the two Scotch children found in Russia were taken care of by the French soldiers and prevented as far as possible from suffering from the horrors of the terrible Retreat.
To-night, as Crispin eyed the youth, and remembered that at dawn he was to die in his company, he realized that he had used him ill, that his behaviour towards him had been that of the dissolute ruffler he was become, rather than of the gentleman he had once accounted himself. "Kenneth," he said at length, and his voice bore so unusually mild a ring that the lad looked up in surprise.
There was a spell of silence as the two men sat, both breathing heavily in the gloom that enveloped them. At length: "You have heard my story, Kenneth," said Crispin. "I have heard, Sir Crispin, and God knows I pity you." That was all, and Galliard felt that it was not enough. He had lacerated his soul with those grim memories to earn a yet kinder word.
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