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Thought he was competent to manage his affair without my help, I reckon." His face lit up with pride and pleasure at that thought, and he said with a cheery complacency, "I like that it's the true old blood hey, Pembroke?" Howard smiled an iron smile, and nodded his head approvingly. Then the news-bringer spoke again. "But Tom beat the twin on the trial."
He let that go, and for the time the talk was of the doings at Wartrace Hall: of the professor's enthusiastic digging for fossils, of Patricia's keen enjoyment of the life in the open, and this put with gentle hesitation on the part of the news-bringer of Mrs. Honoria's growing affection for the young woman whose ambitions reached out toward a sociological career.
"'Twas kind o' sudden," said the news-bringer, who was Joe Bartlett; "he was took all to once and jes' dropped like a ripe chestnut." "Why, like a ripe chestnut?" said Mrs. Starling sharply. "Wall, I had to say suthin', and that come first. The Scripter doos speak of a shock o' corn in his season, don't it, Mis' Starling?" "What's the likeness between a shock o' corn and a chestnut, Joe?
The women folks, having nobody to ask questions of, had nothing for it but to be quiet and use their ears. "Can't get on!" said another man, coming in "there's nothing but snow out o' doors track's all foul." A number of people instantly rushed out to see. "Can't get on any further to-night?" asked a quiet old gentleman of the news-bringer.
Their wives and daughters at home, meanwhile, were equally in a state of expectation, and whatever they might be doing kept ears and eyes on the alert for the step on the gravel and the click of the latch which betokened the arrival of the family news-bringer. Doctors cannot command their time like other people, and Dr.
The women folks, having nobody to ask questions of, had nothing for it but to be quiet and use their ears. "Can't get on!" said another man coming in, "there's nothing but snow out o' doors track's all foul." A number of people instantly rushed out to see. "Can't get on any further to-night?" asked a quiet old gentleman of the news-bringer.
"I have come from the house of mourning," said Sarah Ellen Dow at last, unexpectedly. "You don't tell me that Sister Barsett" "She's left us this time, she's really gone," and the excited news-bringer burst into tears. The poor soul was completely overwrought; she looked tired and wan, as if she had spent her forces in sympathy as well as hard work.
None of these had as yet so much as imagined what a telegraphic news-bringer might be, and so they could not even wish that they had one, or they would surely have done so. The uncertainties of that morning, therefore, hampered all the councils of the nation. Almost everybody believed that there would soon be a war, although a great many men were strongly opposed to the idea of having one.
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