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Updated: September 7, 2025
Such a militia had won glorious triumphs at Lexington and Bennington; and at King's Mountain, had not an army of militia surrounded and captured an army of regulars led by one of England's most skilful officers? What more could you ask? Clearly this plan for a standing army foreboded tyranny. Upon this point Mr. Nason, from the Maine district, had his say, in tones of inimitable bombast.
When she opened her package she found two sketches of herself, one leaning against a rock with her face resting on her hand, and the other sitting beside a flower-decked boat with a broad sun-hat in her lap. Life should not be all work, neither can it be all play and be enjoyable, as Frank Nason found to his sorrow.
What I want is for you to find out, through your acquaintance with the Nasons, just what bond there is between the elder Nason and this Miss Vernon, and report to me. I do not intend to use the knowledge for any illegal purpose, but merely as a leverage to retain Nason's business.
"Well," she replied, smiling, "what shall it be? a few gems from Moody and Sankey, or from 'Laurel Leaves'?" And then turning to Frank she added: "My brother just dotes on church music!" "Alice," said her brother with mock sternness, "if you fib like that you know the penalty!" "Do you play or sing, Mr. Nason?" she inquired, not heeding her brother.
Granny said it was the greatest day in their lives and paid up for all the unhappy days when Old Aaron was cross and said mean things about Nason. Nason had just a day to stay, but they made a day of it. Granny said, 'I-to-goodness, but we had a time!
When the concert was ended he observed, "If there's one song in the house that you have not sung, Alice, I wish you would sing it. I hate to have you omit any." "I have only sung what I was asked to," she replied; "is not that so, Mr. Nason?" "That is true," replied he boldly, "and you have not sung one that I wouldn't enjoy hearing again to-night."
You know Old Aaron and their boy Nason fell out years ago about something the boy said about the flag and was too stubborn to take back." "Yes, I know." "It was foolishness on the part of the father, of course, for he should have known boys say things they don't mean. Well, the two kept on acting all these years like strangers. The old man grew bitter.
"I like to pull out the little slippers from the middle of the flowers and fit 'em into each other and make circles with 'em. I made a lot last summer and pressed 'em in a book, but Aunt Maria made me stop." "That's just what Nason used to do. I have some pressed in the big Bible yet that he made when he was a little boy."
In an incredibly short time the whole was done, and the impressive quiet was broken only by the excited voice of the first lieutenant, Nason a young officer, and this his first serious battle reporting to the gloomy captain that the ship was clear and ready for action. Seymour had of course taken personal charge of the deck himself.
If you find time to write a line to one who is now a worker in the hive instead of a drone, it will be gratefully received by me. In this respect Frank Nason had read her better than she had read him, or else some fortunate intuition had led him aright. She answered the letter at once, thanking him for his flattering words, but forbidding him to use any more of them.
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