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Updated: May 16, 2025
Never a turnip fell from a bumping, laden cart, and the driver more unconscious of it, than I that I had dropped that word. I re-entered the house, but had not reached my chair when McKenzie's hand fell roughly on me, and I was swung round. "Mr. Ogilvy," he said, the more savagely I doubt not because his passions had been chained so long, "you know more than you would have us think.
Neither life nor death nor flood nor fire should keep him from presenting himself at four o'clock at Jean McKenzie's door, in response to the precious note which in a moment had changed the world for him. Jean found the day stretching out ahead of her in a series of exciting events.
None of the Indians who frequent the posts on McKenzie's River have hereditary chiefs; the dignity is conferred by the gentlemen in charge of posts on the best hunters.
The girl's exquisite beauty and grace her high-bred self-possession and polished manner impressed him as he had never been impressed before, even by the society girls whom he was in the habit of meeting, and Kitty McKenzie's charms grew pale and dim beside the brighter and more perfect loveliness of this dainty sewing-girl.
Having learned on my way coming up, that one of the gentlemen in McKenzie's River district had resigned, and would quit the country this year, I felt convinced I should be appointed his successor; that being one of the most wretched parts of the Indian country, it was quite a matter of course that I should be sent thither.
The men in the trenches had no peaches, no squabs, no mushrooms, no avacados for them bully beef and soup cubes, a handful of dates, or by good luck a bit of chocolate. He left the peach untasted he had a feeling that he might thus, vicariously, atone for the hardships of those others who fought. After dinner he walked downtown. Passing Dr. McKenzie's house he was constrained to loiter.
This determination was coupled with a desire to travel across the northern peninsula and around the coast in winter and learn more of the people and their life than could be observed at the Post; and I therefore declined Mr. McKenzie's invitation. Captain James Blanford, from St.
A bitter skirmish of winds, carrying powdered snow dust, nipped round the gateways of the dormitories and Tait McKenzie's fine statue of Whitefield stood sharply outlined against a cold blue sky.
"Did you like your dinner?" "Yes. Bronson said you made the broth. It was delicious." "I like to cook -when I like the people I cook for." He basked in that. "There are some patients oh, I have wanted to salt their coffee and pepper their cereal. You have no idea of the temptations which come to a nurse." "Are you fond of it nursing?" "Yes. It is nice in a place like this and at Dr. McKenzie's.
On another day, when life seems soberer, spend all your time in study of the more serious works, such as Saint Gaudens' "Seated Lincoln," and McKenzie's "The Young Franklin," noting how the dignity, sureness of touch, and sound purpose of these make them more appealing with longer acquaintance.
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