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George?" St. George paused in his talk with Mr. Kennedy and Latrobe and raised his head: "Well, Richard?" "I was just saying to young Rutter here, that perhaps Mr. Poe has been called suddenly to Richmond and has sent you a note which has not reached you." "Or he might be ill," suggested Harry in his anxiety to leave no loophole through which the poet could escape.
I believe it turned out to be only measles after all, though. "Run, Israel!" screamed Aunt Pen then; "run instantly and bring home a couple of pounds of roll-brimstone, and tell the maids to riddle the furnace fire and make it as bright and hot as possible, and to light fires in the parlor grates, and in the old Latrobe, and in every room in the house, without losing a minute.
When a white man murdered a few blacks it was not likely that he would put his neck into the hangman's noose by making a formal report of his exploit to Mr. Latrobe. All the surviving blackfellow could say was: "Quamby dead long time white-fellow plenty shoot 'em." He related in eight words the decline and fall of his race more truly than the white man could do it in eight volumes.
Gresham broke the silence by asking Dr. Latrobe how he had enjoyed the evening. "Very pleasantly," he replied. "I was quite interested in that parson. Where was he educated?" "In Oxford, I believe. I was pleased to hear him say that he had no white blood in his veins." "I should think not," replied Dr. Latrobe, "from his looks. But one swallow does not make a summer.
His father's mother made overtures to receive him as her grandson and heir, but he has nobly refused to forsake his mother's people and has cast his lot with them." "And I," said Dr. Latimer, "would have despised myself if I had done otherwise." "Well, well," said Dr. Latrobe, rising, "I was never so deceived before. Good morning!" Dr.
"The negro," replied Dr. Latrobe, "always has been and always will be an element of discord in our country." "What, then, is your remedy?" asked Dr. Gresham. "I would eliminate him from the politics of the country." "As disfranchisement is a punishment for crime, is it just to punish a man before he transgresses the law?" asked Dr. Gresham. "If," said Dr.
Paynter's room, nominally heated by a flume from the Latrobe heater in the parlor, was noticeably coolish on a wintry night. Besides, there was no table in it, and everybody knows that algebra is hard enough under the most favorable conditions, let alone having to do it on your knee. It seemed absolutely safe; Fifi had yielded to the summons of the familiar comforts; and now
The corporal went rolling down the steps with Latrobe bounding over the tumbling form, and the next instant he had vaulted over the ledge of the open window on the lower floor, and vanished through the gateway to the beach. And now all along the Calle Real the bugles were sounding "To Arms!" That was a wild day in Manila.
Everybody had seated themselves now Malachi having passed around a course of palm-leaf fans Clayton, Latrobe, and Horn at one open window overlooking the tired trees it was in the dog days Seymour and the judge at the other, while St. Once more the talk dwelt on the guest of honor Mr. Kennedy, who, of all men of his time, could best appreciate Poe's genius, and who, with Mr.
At last came the end of the summer's encampment, the return of the corps to barracks and studies, one blissful week in which he was enabled to spend several uninterrupted hours each day at her side, and then a cataclysm. A letter intended only for Nita's hands fell into those of her sister. It was bulky. It was from Latrobe.
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