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The Major introduced him as the son of an old friend comrade-in-arms, he said, if I remember. He was there with a black-faced fellow, whose name I didn't catch either." "That was Letcher!" "What? The man Whitmore was talking with? What were they saying?" "They said something about a christening. And Letcher asked for money." "A christening? What in thunder has a christening to do with it?"
General Lee in order to set an example applied through General Grant for a pardon under the amnesty proclamation and soon afterwards he wrote to Governor Letcher: "All should unite in honest efforts to obliterate the effects of war, and to restore the blessings of peace.
He may be a bit of a fool, sir: but since she wasn't for him, he prayed she might find a better fellow. That's sound Christianity, hey? I can tell you it came tough enough. And now " He swung round upon Whitmore. "Did this man Letcher know?" he demanded. "He did, Mr. Rogers. Oh, if you only knew what agonies of mind " "Stow your agonies of mind. We'll begin with those you've caused.
"Leftenant Logan," replied a wounded trooper who had a sabre-cut on the side of his face which was bleeding profusely. "The fall of Captain Letcher leaves me in command," said this officer, approaching the young lieutenant.
Letcher insisted that they were important to the reputation of more than Mr. Clay: still Buchanan refused; and to this day the question of veracity remains unsettled between Jackson and Buchanan. The public have, however, long since declared that General Jackson was too brave a man to lie. Toward the close of Mr. Clay's life, one Carter Beverly, of Virginia, wrote Mr.
The President received Letcher with his usual courtesy; but that mild blue eye, which at times would fill with tears like that of a woman, was kindled up that night with unwonted fire.
It was a happy accident, for just across the river the people of northwestern Virginia were meditating resistance to the secession movement, which under the guidance of Governor Letcher threatened to sever them from the Union-loving population of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
She invokes the night and the moon, beneath whose rays these preparations are carried on, now, while the wild beasts lie asleep in the forests, and while the dogs alone bay the superanuated letcher, who relies singly on the rich scents with which he is perfumed for success, to speed her incantations, and signalise their power beneath the roof of him whose love she seeks.
Letcher, that I brought to see you, would have given you any amount of money if you had only treated him kindly but you frightened him away. Come up out o' that! Now, what do you mean to do? I can't let you stay here any longer unless you raise some money.
"Where's Plinlimmon?" he asked hoarsely. "Hurt?" "Here I am, old fellow," answered Archibald, reeling rather than stepping forward. "A crack on the skull, that's all. Hope you're none the worse?" His own face was bleeding from a nasty graze on the right temple. "H'm?" said Letcher. "Mean it? You'd better mean it by !" he snarled suddenly, his face twisted with pain or malice.
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