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"Yes, I was with the Colonel most of the time." "And how about Radnor? Didn't you see him at all?" "Oh, yes. I remember talking to him once about some queerly shaped stalagmites. He didn't hang around me, naturally, while I was with his father." "And when you talked to him about the stalagmites was there anyone else with him at the time?" "I believe Miss Mathers was there."
Elizabeth," he whined, "come and be mad, too. You haven't been kind to me. There's plenty more money plenty more. Come back for a little time and I'll show you." "How did you kill Mathers?" Pritchard asked. "I stabbed him when he was stooping down," Wenham Gardner explained. "You see, when I left college my father thought it would be good for me to do something.
Frank Mathers felt himself strong, rather too much so perhaps. It is one of the defects of the self-educated, that they generally imagine themselves much more learned than they really are. Not having anyone to compete with, or a master to show them their imperfections, they rather over-estimate their capacities. There is also another disadvantage in self-culture.
"I will have to mention the money matter to my step-mother, for she keeps the keys of my drawer," he said in a soliloquy. He went into the kitchen. Mr. and Mrs. Mathers were there. Frank flourished the letter in his hand and exclaimed: "My invention is likely to be a success." And, holding the letter in both his hands, he read it to his parents.
As it began, so it continued. All through the great struggle the Conservatives were hopelessly behind us. As the enthusiastic Mathers afterwards remarked, "We were right on the top of them the whole time." It was a stirring and Homeric contest.
He bought one "bound neatly in Kids Leather" for "3 shillings & sixpence" and gave it to a widow whom he was wooing. Rather a serious lover's gift, but characteristic of the giver, and not so gloomy as "Dr. Mathers Vials of Wrath," "Dr. Sibbs Bowels," "Dr. Preston's Church Carriage," and "Dr. Williard's Fountains opened," all of which he likewise presented to her.
"Do you think that if I built a greenhouse you could take care of it?" he questioned. "I think so," said his son. "Work is slack just now," went on Mr. Mathers, "I might as well put up one in the garden as do nothing." "I think I should very much like to grow tomatoes and grapes," Frank remarked. "You feel better now, then," said the father.
These humiliations the Shipwreck Clerk never forgot. There was a little pause here, and then Mr. Mathers remarked: "I should think you'd be awfully bored with the long stories of shipwrecks that the people come and tell you."
"I believe you are right, sir; for I heard one of the men as I passed observe, 'what will they say in Buffalo when it's over?." "Send Mathers here, corporal; and do you order four rank and file, with side-arms to be in readiness immediately." "Mathers, you have heard the news," said O'Flaherty, as the sergeant entered. "Can the Fort hold out against such a force as Jackson reports?
Although the only nobleman ever sent over as Governor of Massachusetts, more than all others, he conciliated the general good will. His short term of office and wise policy prevented any particular advantage to the Mathers from the dedication to him of the Life of Phips.
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