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This thought came to Ralph like an inspiration. It pleased the old man's whim, and he sat down on the door-step. "Now, I suppose," said Ralph, "that General Winfield Scott always looked into things a little before he went into a fight. Didn't he?" "To be sure," assented the old man. "Well," said Ralph. "What is the condition of the enemy? I suppose the whole neighborhood's against us."
Elliot's house she met many of the neighborhood's more conventional women, and began to have a great liking for these gently bred but broad-minded and democratic Americans. She also met a mixed collection of artists, actresses, writers, reformers and followers of various "isms"; for as president of a suffrage club it was Mrs.
Then we have bought new machinery for breaking palm nuts and extracting the kernels and have fixed a site for the building at a dry, sandy spot. I don't claim the neighborhood's healthy, but it's healthier than this, and we have inquired about an engineer. Would you like the post?" "I think not. I'm Cartwright's man. I've taken his pay." Montgomery smiled ironically. "Let's be frank!
"It's the neighborhood's annual debauch. The women are busy keeping the babies from getting drowned in the cellars, or they'd get full, too. I hope, since it's come this far, it will come farther, so the landlord will have to paper the parlor." That was at three o'clock. At four Mr. Ladley went down the stairs, and I heard him getting into a skiff in the lower hall.
They're leaving almost at once." The old gentleman chuckled. "You've won the neighborhood's everlasting gratitude, sir! And did he promise to brace up in the country of his adoption?" "By proxy," Brent mumbled, at the moment carefully drawing a line. "But promises don't amount to a fiddle-de-dee. Men brace up when they want to. Have you seen Jane lately?" "Not for some days.
The only man there who ever had it fit in the battle under Gen. Harrison. He had it when he was a child, and was so old that the pockmarks on him wuz wore so smooth you could scarcely see 'em. Our neighborhood's so healthy you can't even have a square case o' measles. Gosh darn it," Si exploded, "what glandered fool was it that couldn't tell 'backer-sick from smallpox?
"Oh, by the way," he added, "your neighborhood's honored just now, ain't it? The King of New York's arrived, they tell me." "King of New York? Oh! I see; you mean the Coltons." "Sartin. Who else? Met his Majesty yet?" "No. Have you?" "I met him when he was down a month ago. Sim Eldredge introduced me right here in the store. 'Mr.
"Some mistake, sport. I never butt in." "You're goin' to get your head beaten off if you don't make yourself scarce pretty lively." "I wouldn't want that to happen for the world," Billy drawled. "Come on, Saxon. This neighborhood's unhealthy for us." He started to go on with her, but Long thrust in front again. "You're too fresh to keep, young fellow," he snarled. "You need saltin' down.
"Where shall I begin to rove within confines?" he asked, feeling the vacant spaces in his nature: the want of all those birds, forest trees, household habits, weeds, instincts of the brooks, and tints and tones of the local species which lie in some neighborhood's compass, and complete the pastoral mind.
Rude sports constituted the amusements of the young wrestling, leaping, and hunting; and he who was most expert at these was the neighborhood's pride: he rode from church with the prettiest girl, and was sure to be welcomed by her parents when he came; and to be selected by such an one was to become the neighborhood's belle.
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