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And now she is anxious to go back to the store again. Of course she is worried about her mother, but the prize money ought to help Mrs. McLaughlin so that Nellie would not need to cut her vacation short." "What kind of treasure was it that these men went to sea after?" Aunt Emily asked Uncle William. "A cargo of mahogany," Mr. Minturn replied.
"I don't care about the bond of union; I want to know what happened to the ship." "It is likely," said the marine, "if I could have cut the bond of union that I spoke of, that is to say, the Water-devil's arm, that I would have done it, hoping that I might safely float off somewhere with Miss Minturn; but I couldn't cut it then, and I can't cut it now.
"Pretty soon Miss Minturn came on deck, and bade me good morning, and then she went and looked over the stern. 'We are still moving on, she said, with a smile, 'and the fog doesn't seem to make any difference.
The chairman arose and said, while an ominous silence fell upon the room: "Miss Minturn has been appointed to give us a paper for our next gathering, and the subject chosen is, 'Christian Science and Its Transcendental Tendency."
Seabrook and the teachers were ignorant of the names of the guilty ones, Miss Minturn had recognized the ringleaders, and so their supposed secret was out. A private meeting of all concerned was immediately called, and the matter thoroughly discussed.
I hear they are camping 'way up the river up near the lakes, beyond Minturn's Dam. You know that's a wild country up there." Ruth remembered. She had been a little way in that direction with her friends, Tom and Helen Cameron, in their auto. Minturn Dam had burst two years before, and done much damage, but was now repaired. "That is a long way from here," she suggested to the clerk. "Yes'm.
"I know nothing about that," said Tom, half surlily. "I am only giving what others say." "Well, don't you even do that." He rose to his feet, and stood very straight. "Do me the favor to say to any one you may hear intimate such a lie that I will hold any man responsible who says it." "Jove!" said Mr. Trimmer, afterwards, to his friend Minturn, "must be some fire there.
When Miss Minturn came to ask me how we were getting along, I told her that I thought we were doing very well indeed. I did not mention that we had ceased to move, for she thought that a favorable symptom. She went back to her quarters greatly cheered up. Not so much, I think, from my words, as from my joyful aspect; for I did feel jolly, there was no doubt about it.
That he felt himself rising, was clearly apparent to all who observed him attentively. His good lady, Mrs. Minturn, was also conscious of the upward movement, and experienced a consequent sense of elevation.
"My! but wasn't that a nobby traveling suit, and such a fit!" "Katherine Minturn pretty name, isn't it?" "Does anybody know anything more about her?" were some of the comments and queries that slipped from those supple instruments with a tendency towards perpetual motion, which, sometimes, are described as organs that are hung in the middle and wag at both ends school-girls' tongues.
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