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It will not be necessary for you to say more, except that I strongly urge the Merrills to comply with my suggestion and come nightly to the fort." Peleg, at the request of the scout, mounted a horse and rode in the direction of the little log cabin which the Merrills had erected on the extreme border beyond the settlement.
"Easy enough for you to say what I ought to do. Look at who my friends are the Fromes and the Merrills and the Gilmans. Best set in town. I strained a point when I broke loose from them to take up this progressive fight. They'd cut me dead if a story like this came out." "I daresay. Communities are loaded to the guards with respectable cowards.
He and Henry, accompanied by young Israel Boone, who now had become almost a man in size, had been frequent visitors at the friendly home of the Merrills. It was therefore with a feeling of personal interest as well as anxiety that the young hunter hastened to carry out the suggestion of the great scout.
A faint smile doubtful of its right touched the weak face of the little old man. "So you don't know your own father boy!" A sudden sickness ran through the lawyer and sapped his strength. He leaned against the desk uncertainly. It had come at last. The whole world would learn the truth about him. The Merrills, the Fromes, Valencia Van Tyle all of them would know it and scorn him.
Although the Duncans dined in the evening, the Merrills had dinner at half-past one in the afternoon, when the girls returned from school. Mr. Merrill usually came home, but he had gone off somewhere for this particular day, and Mrs. Merrill had a sewing circle. The girls sat down to dinner alone.
He saw that ultimately most of the shame for the bad government of American cities rests upon the Fromes and the Merrills. As for the newspapers, he was learning that between the people and an independent press stand the big advertisers. These make for conservatism, for an unfair point of view, for a slant in both news recording and news interpretation.
Of course you have an engagement for to-night?" "Yes; we are going to a reception at the Merrills'." "Merrill? Christians?" was the sharp reply. "The name speaks for itself." "What does possess your parents to mix so much with Christians?" "Fellow-feeling, I suppose. We all dance and talk alike; and as we do not hold services at receptions, wherein lies the difference?"
"Miss Sadler would willingly change me if she could," said Cynthia, a little bitterly. "How did you find out I was at Miss Sadler's?" "Morton Browne told me yesterday," said Bob. "I felt like punching his head." "What did he tell you?" she asked with some concern. "He said that you were here, visiting the Merrills, among other things, and said that you knew me." The "other things" Mr.
Although the Duncans dined in the evening, the Merrills had dinner at half-past one in the afternoon, when the girls returned from school. Mr. Merrill usually came home, but he had gone off somewhere for this particular day, and Mrs. Merrill had a sewing circle. The girls sat down to dinner alone.
Markham's under jaw dropped, in the way peculiar to her when at all irritated, but she did not answer at once; she waited a moment, while she held the rod poised over the iron kettle, and with her forefinger deliberately separated any of the eight candles which showed a disposition to stick together; then depositing them upon the frame and taking up another rod, she said: "Miss Plympton was down to Camden three or four days ago, and she said Ann Merrills, the chambermaid at the Stafford House, told her Ethelyn had come to Olney to stay with us while you was away; but she must have gone somewhere else, as we have not seen her here.
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