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"You are certainly not," the young man rejoined, "except in so far as you are willing to consider me as the messenger of your wife and daughter." "Oh, I accept your credentials," said the other with his dry smile; "what I don't recognize is their right to send a message." This reduced Garnett to silence, and after a moment's pause Mr. Newell drew his watch from his pocket.
He picked up his hat and stick, nodded knowingly to Garnett, and walked toward the door with an air of creaking jauntiness. But on the threshold Mrs. Newell waylaid him. "Don't go I must speak to you," she said, following him into the antechamber; and Garnett remembered the dress-maker who was not to be dislodged from her bedroom. In a moment Mrs.
In order that definite information may be available for the use of the Congress, I have appointed a commission composed of W. A. Richards, Commissioner of the General Land Office; Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the Bureau of Forestry of the Department of Agriculture, and F. H. Newell, Chief Hydrographer of the Geological Survey, to report at the earliest practicable moment upon the condition, operation, and effect of the present land laws and on the use, condition, disposal, and settlement of the public lands.
Looking down with burning cheeks, she told him what Halsey's story about Newell Knight's levitation had been. She remembered it quite clearly and told it baldly. Before she finished it she heard him mutter below his breath that it was very strange. She was surprised at his tone of perplexity.
Samson Newell was evidently a man of few words in a case of emergency. He paused for only an instant to assure himself that the man was in earnest, then he slid open one of the side-doors of the express-car, and stretched forth a hand whose clutch was like the closing of a claw of steel.
At that time Newell, under the first cloud of disappointed love, had launched into market-gardening, and he gave Dorcas little tasks, here and there, picking fruit and vegetables, even weeding and hoeing, because that would leave her within call of home, where a little girl sat daily on guard.
To this decision he adhered immovably, and when Garnett conveyed it to Hermione she accepted it with a deep look of understanding. As for Mrs. Newell she was too much engrossed in the nuptial preparations to give her husband another thought. She had gained her point, she had disarmed her foes, and in the first flush of success she had no time to remember by what means her victory had been won.
She longed for the rains to begin, that in their violence and the sound of the wind she might gain a sense of life in action by which to eke out her dull and expressionless days. She was, as Nicky Dyer had said, "a good un to 'old 'er tongue," and therein lay her greatest strength as well as her greatest danger. Miss Newell boarded at Captain Dyer's.
The Baron, at this, turned abruptly from his study of the Place Vendome. "My dear creature, for heaven's sake don't spoil everything!" he exclaimed. Mrs. Newell coloured furiously. "What's the meaning of that brilliant speech?" "I was merely putting myself in the place of a man on whom you have ceased to smile."
"While her silent steps were straying Lonely through night's deepening shade, Glory's brightest beams were playing Bound the happy Christian's head." In October, 1810, an event occurred which gave direction to the whole life of Harriet Atwood. She became acquainted with Samuel Newell, one of the enthusiastic apostles of missions.
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