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Mayor Munroe of New Orleans did not more effectually magnify his office when he surrendered the city to General Butler. Underhill's style is always of the finest. His spelling was under the purest covenant of grace.
He leaned back in his chair and said: "I know another riddle. When is Mun Bun not Mun Bun?" "He's always Mun Bun, 'ceptin' when Mother calls him Munroe Ford Bunker, when he's got himself all dirt," said Vi. "I don't call that a riddle." "It is a riddle," insisted Laddie. "When is Mun Bun not Mun Bun?" "Is it when he's asleep?" asked Russ, taking a guess just to please his small brother. "Nope!
He wanted to run a road over the spot where the house was located, and had proposed to buy it and the land upon which it stood. He offered seven hundred and fifty dollars for it; but it was now worth nine hundred, and Mr. Munroe refused the offer. The 'Squire was angry at the refusal, and from that time used all the means in his power to persecute his poor neighbor.
At the clerk's desk before him, Adjutant Farr and Paymaster Plaisted were busy with their evening reports, while Major Watson, with Quartermaster Munroe were seeing that the companies were distributed in the various corridors and obtaining their rations.
Down came Jonas Parker to his knee, to be stabbed to death before he could reload; there fell old Munroe, the veteran of Louisburg; and Harrington, killed at his doorstep, and Muzzey, Hadley, and Brown. In all, before the stars had faded in the light of dawn, sixteen New Englanders lay dead or wounded on the village green.
At the end of your letter, at some little distance below your signature, and in the left corner of your paper, write the name of the person to whom your letter is addressed; as "Lady Dalhousie," or "Edward Munroe, Esquire." It is more polite to write Esquire at full length than to curtail it to Esq. In writing to persons much your superior or inferior, use as few words as possible.
See how they sarved old John Adams, see how they let Jefferson starve in his old age, see how good old Munroe like to have got right into jail, after his term of President was up.
It must be so, for he says poor papa is still hopeful of doing something yet." "And Mr. Munroe writes to you?" said Christie abstractedly. "Of course," said Jessie quickly. "He feels interested in us." "Nobody tells ME anything," said Christie. "Didn't " "No," said Christie bitterly. "What on earth DID you talk about? But people don't confide in you because they're afraid of you. You're so "
Gor A'mity, said he, 'oh massa, oh Miss Sally, oh! 'What on airth is the matter with you? said Sally; 'how you do frighten me; I vow I believe you'r mad. 'Oh my Gor, said he, 'oh! massa Jim Munroe he hang himself, on the ash saplin' under Miss Sally's window oh my Gor! That shot was a settler, it struck poor Sall right atwixt wind and water; she gave a lurch ahead, then healed over and sunk right down in another faintin' fit; and Juno, old Snow's wife, carried her off and laid her down on the bed.
In the florid disorder of a red velvet sitting-room cluttered with morning sunshine and unframed, unsigned photographs of stage favorites, empty bottles and dented-in cushions, Mae Munroe stirred on her high mound of red sateen sofa-pillows; placed her paper-bound book face down on the tabouret beside her; yawned; made a foray into an uncovered box of chocolate bonbons; sank her small teeth into a creamy oozing heart and dropped a particle of the sweet into the sniffling, upturned snout of a white wool dog cuddled in the curve of her arm; yawned again.
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