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Like most lawyers, he had a vein of romance, and this now opened in pleasing conjectures concerning the girl. He knew just where Lower Merritt was, and so well what it was like that a vision of its white paint against the dark green curtain of the wooded heights around it filled his sense as agreeably as so much white marble.
Merritt, Old Roses is a gentleman; and a gentleman is a gentleman till he " "Till he humps his bluey into the Never Never Land, Vic? But what do you know about gentlemen, anyway? You were born only five miles from the jumping-off place, my dear." "Oh," was the quiet reply, "a woman the commonest woman knows a gentleman by instinct.
All the youth of Clayton was there, loitering about the grounds in gay little groups, or lingering in couples under the shadow of the big porches. In the library Judge and Mrs. Hollis did the honors, and presented the guests to little Miss Merritt, whose cordial, homely greetings counteracted the haughty disapproval of the portraits overhead. Mr.
"Seeing as Van Sneck was found half dead in Mr. Steel's house, and seeing as he claimed the cigar-case, what could be proved to be Van Sneck's, I'm not surprised," Merritt grinned. "Then you know all about it?" "Don't know anything about it," Merritt growled, doggedly. "I guessed that.
"I don't know what we are to do," spoke up Merritt. "We can't compel them to go in, and, after all, the captain may be mistaken." "No, I'm not, my son," rejoined the veteran. "I can smell wind and see them 'mare's tails' in the sky over yonder. They're as fall uv wind as a preacher is uv texts." "Well, we've done our best to warn them," concluded Rob.
In the mean time Merritt, after his handsome engagement with Kershaw near Front Royal, had been ordered back to the neighborhood of White Post, so that my cavalry outposts now extended from this last point around to the west of Winchester.
Where's Dr. Merritt? I think we ought to hear from him on that point." Murmurs of assent were heard about the room. Dr. Surtaine rose to his feet. "If I may be pardoned for speaking to a motion of which I am a part," he said in his profound and mellow voice. "I think I can throw light upon the situation. Quite a number of us have observed with uneasiness the increase of sickness in Worthington.
"'It's a shame to take the money, says he, as he eyed the gambler, 'but there's an old saying about the mental capacity of a man that is speedily separated from his bank roll, and I reckon you were away from home the last time the fool killer called. The gam just smiled and kept his eye on the stakes, and Merritt gives the chains a rattle to wake up 'Old Glory' and throws back the lid of the chest.
"We will break the news to the rest of the Patrol after breakfast. It's no use alarming them yet." "It isn't possible that he went off on an early fishing expedition?" For answer, Rob waved his hand toward the water, where the Flying Fish lay rocking gently at her anchor. Ashore the dingy lay as Merritt and his companions had left it the night before.
Among those under forty our army has far more total abstainers than all the others in the world, and such soldiers as Grant, Crook, Merritt, and Upton, of our service, and Kitchener of Khartoum, are on record as saying that the staying powers of the teetotaller exceed those even of the temperate man, and staying power is a thing to cultivate.
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