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It may be questioned, however, whether the invaders did well to keep so large a force in the Dobrudscha, seeing that a smaller body of light troops patrolling the left bank of the lower Danube or at the tête de pont at Matchin would have answered the same purpose.
Zoukoff has beaten the enemy everywhere, and Zimmermann is reported to have driven them out of Matchin in fact we have fairly broken the ice, and all that we have now to do is to go in and win." I saw by the flush on his handsome countenance that the martial ardour of Nicholas was stirred to its depths.
"We are slaves; we are Roosian scurfs. We work as many hours as our owners like; we take what pay they choose to give us; we ask their permission to live and breathe." "Oh, that's a lie!" Sleeny interrupted, with unbroken calmness. "Old Saul Matchin and me come to an agreement about time and pay, and both of us was suited. Ef he's got his heel onto me, I don't feel it"
But you know what girls is. She jest wouldn't." "So it's all done, is it? No chance for Sam?" Offitt asked eagerly. "Not as much as you could hold sawdust in your eye," the carpenter answered. "Well, now, Mr. Matchin, I have got something to say." With your permission, sir, I will." "Now look ye here, Mr. Offitt. I don't know as I have got anything against you, but I don't know nothing fur you.
The dim light, the unhealthy commerce of fictitious ghosts, the unreality of act and sentiment, the unwonted abandon, form an atmosphere in which these second-hand mystics float away into a sphere where the morals and the manners are altogether different from those of their working days. Miss Matchin had not usually joined in these morbid discussions.
Sence we've jined the Upper Ten, we mustn't go back on Society." But this brute thunder had little effect on Mrs. Matchin. She knew the storm was over when her good-natured lord tried to be sarcastic. It need hardly be said that Maud Matchin did not find the high school all her heart desired. Her pale goddess had not enough substantial character to hold her worshipper long.
Matchin, you know young ladies and the ways of the world. I ask you, as a gentleman, not to say nothing about this, for the present, to nobody." Saul, proud of his secret, readily promised. Farnham lost no time in calling upon the Mayor to fulfil his engagement. He found his Honor a little subdued by the news of the morning.
His mind had been full of Alice and her prospects during his long walk in the moonlight; and now as he sat there, the image of Maud Matchin suddenly obtruded itself upon him, and he began to compare and contrast the two girls, both so beautiful and so utterly unlike; and then his thoughts shifted all at once back to his own early life.
She felt her heart beat with something like terror, and regretted asking him to stay. He had been very agreeable, but she was sure he was going to be disagreeable now. She was afraid that if he grew disagreeable she could not manage him as she could the others. Her worst fears were realized with his first words. "Miss Matchin, if you ask me to stay longer, you must take the consequences.
They talked in a stiff and embarrassed way for some time about the weather, the prospect of a rise in wages, and other such matters, neither obviously taking any interest in what was being said. Suddenly Bott drew nearer and lowered his voice, though the two were alone in the shop. "Mr. Matchin," he said, with an uneasy grin, "I have come to see you about your daughter."
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