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Updated: June 17, 2025
To recur to my own study again, should we produce a historian or historical writer the equal of Gibbon, Mommsen, Carlyle, or Macaulay there would be a feeling of pride in our historical genius which would make itself felt at every academical and historical gathering. We have something of that sentiment in regard to Francis Parkman, our most original historian.
He had meant to conjure up for Isabel's sake some reflex, however faint, of that beautiful picture Mr. Parkman has painted of Maisonneuve founding and consecrating Montreal.
"Well, anyhow, they done me lots of good, them verses did, an' I hope they will you." In June Dorothy Parkman was graduated from the Hinsdale Academy. Both Mr. Burton and Susan attended the exercises, though not together. Then Susan sat down and wrote a glowing account of the affair to Keith, dilating upon the fine showing that "your Miss Stewart" made.
One particular in Webster's statement was unquestionably strange, if not incredible. He had, he said, paid Parkman a sum of L90, which he had given him personally, and represented the Doctor as having at their interview promised to cancel the mortgage on the collection of minerals which Webster had given as security for the loan of L490 that had been subscribed by Parkman and four of his friends.
"Then why did not they leave at such an hour as to make it right for landing here?" "There are boats every day," said Mr. Parkman, "which leave at the right time for that, and most passengers take them.
So he made Georgia keep at it, Georgia was the one could play that sort of game. As he talked, new arguments came to him. The oculist! At first he had thought it a bad thing that the oculist could not tell what was the matter. Now he seized upon that as proving there was nothing the matter at all. And Dr. Parkman had said, at the last, that it did not amount to anything.
"Oh, 'course they're nothin' but babies now, but by an' by ! Still, if he ever found out she was Dorothy Parkman, an' of course he'd have to find it out if he married Oh, lan' sakes, what fools some folks be!" With which somewhat cryptic statement Susan turned and marched irritably into the house. Dr. Stewart's second operation on Keith's eyes took place late in November. It was not a success.
No Parkman has yet risen to tell the story of the martyrdom of the Franciscans in New Mexico. In one fell day, before the captain-general knew anything about it, 400 colonists and twenty-one missionaries had been slain butchered, shot, thrown over the rocks, suffocated in their burning chapels.
It was with her too almost an intoxication the throwing off of gloom, the taking on of joy. On such a morning nature calls unto her chosen, and they hear her call, and are glad. As she stood there on her hill-top her spirit lifted itself up in lyric utterance; her whole being responded to the songs of the returning birds. How well Dr. Parkman had planned it!
Parkman, who made it his boast that he would live for that sum, but you did not enquire how he lived. I can tell you. He never refused an invitation to dine, breakfast, or tea, which he used to obtain often by pushing himself into everybody's company. When he did not succeed in getting invitations, he invited himself to breakfast, dine, or sup with some of his friends.
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