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And he jumped from his saddle, slipping his arm through the bridle. "I am a runaway. What do you think of the Fugitive Slave Bill?" "I approve of returning property to its owners." "The sea must have been God's temple first, instead of the groves." "I believe the Saurians were an Orthodox tribe." "Did you stop yonder to ponder the sea?" "I was pondering 'Lemorne vs. Huell."
The winter passed in waiting for him to come to Waterbury every Saturday; and in the enjoyment of the two days he passed with me. In March Aunt Eliza wrote me that Lemorne was beaten! Van Horn had taken up the whole contents of his snuff-box in her house the evening before in amazement at the turn things had taken. That night I dreamed of the scene in the hotel at Newport.
"What! have you changed your mind respecting the orphans, aunt?" "She has, and is nothing," she went on, not heeding my remark. "Her father married below his station; when he died his wife fell back to her place for he spent his fortune and there she and Margaret must remain, unless Lemorne is defeated." "Aunt, for your succinct biography of my position many thanks."
"He did not wear his legal beaver up, I think; but he rode a fine horse and sat it well." "A lawyer on horseback should, like the beggar of the adage, ride to the devil." "Your business now is the 'Lemorne?" "You know it is." "I did not know but that you had found something besides to litigate." "It must have been Edward Uxbridge that you saw. He is the brain of the firm." "You expect Mr.
As he turned to go out he saw me and stopped. "I have been in New York since I saw you," he said. "Mr. Lemorne sent for me." "There is my aunt," I said. He shrugged his shoulders. "I shall not go away soon again," he remarked. "I missed Newport greatly." I made some foolish reply, and kept my eyes on Aunt Eliza, who dawdled unaccountably. He appeared amused, and after a little talk went away.
So the sight of the Uxbridge family did not agitate me as it did Aunt Eliza. "The sly, methodical dogs! but I shall beat Lemorne yet!" "How will you amuse yourself then, aunt?" "I'll adopt some boys to inherit what I shall save from his clutches." The bath fatigued her so she remained in her room for the rest of the day; but she kept me busy with a hundred trifles.
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