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As soon as I can find out how the affair had best be managed, I will give them instructions as to the plans I propose. One will carry them to you, and the other to my father. Will Parton be a good place for you to join forces?" "As well as any other, Oswald. Your plan seems to me a good one. At any rate, I can think of nothing better. My brain is deadened by this terrible misfortune.
To-day it is colorless and dull, as though some animating quality that it had once possessed had forever passed from it. "You seem to have met with an accident," said Parton, when the injured man had recovered sufficiently to speak. "Yes," he said, wincing with pain, "I have.
Parton makes a summary of Burr's character, says that he was too good for a politician, and not great enough for a statesman, that Nature meant him for a schoolmaster, that he was a useful Senator, an ideal Vice-President, and would have been a good President, and that, if his Mexican expedition had succeeded, he would have run a career similar to that of Napoleon.
"It seems to me," he said, after a pause, "that it were best for you to send two men to Parton; which is, as I have heard, though I have never been there, ten miles south of the Bairds'. Let them give the name of Johnstone; and, at the tavern where they put up, say they expect a relative of the same name.
I would fain find out what has become of the Partons, to whom, and especially to Lady Parton, I owe much. I suppose, too, I shall have to go down to Norfolk, but that I shall put off as long as I can, for it will be strange and very unpleasant at first to go down as master to a place I have never seen. I shall have to get you to come down with me, Captain Dave, to keep me in countenance."
It was ever the old, hearty love of fun born of animal spirits, which never left him, and which would always break out on sufficient provocation. Mr. Parton would have us believe that this was all, and that the common-place hero whom he describes never rose above the level of the humor conveyed by grinning through a horse-collar.
He kissed, and left her to her usual occupations, of which she had many, for she had taken great pains to learn all the details of the work in the Errington Establishment, in fact, she went every morning to the little room where Mistress Parton, the housekeeper, received her with much respect and affection, and duly instructed her on every point of the domestic management and daily expenditure, so that she was thoroughly acquainted with everything that went on.
We can get what we want from the house and, tomorrow evening, one of us will go down into Parton again." "Or better still," Oswald said, "give the money to the hind here. I suppose there is one." "Yes; he sleeps in the house." "Give him money, then, and a present for himself, and get him to fetch it for you.
We take great pleasure in copying this passage, both because it seems to illustrate the spirit which Mr. Parton brought to his task, and because the value of Mr. Sparks's labors have not always been so freely acknowledged by those who have been freest in their use of them. To a careful study of those volumes Mr.
If here and there a little Carlylish, his style has the merit of great liveliness, and his pictures of frontier-life are full of interest and vivacity. Mr. Parton begins his book with a new kind of genealogy, and one suited to our Western hemisphere, where men are valued more for what they themselves are than for what their grandfathers were, for making than for wearing an illustrious name.
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