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Burton, who is rather a long-strung, easy-going, good-looking, middle-aged lady, with a daughter about fifteen years old, extremely pretty and rather peppery, who draws?" Mrs. Burton at once came out, and sat sidewise in the hammock, facing the two men. "How were they dressed?" Ludlow told as well as he could; he reserved his fancy of the girl's being like a hollyhock. "Was the daughter pretty?"
So far he seemed to have sensed nothing in the room but his wife. Without turning, he reached behind him and slammed the door in the faces of those who had brought him, then advanced weavingly on the woman, with, "Get up from there. Get your hat. I'll show you. You come 'long home with me! Ain't I your husband?" "Doctor Bowman," peppery little old Dykeman spoke up from the depths of his chair.
General Scott was sent out by President Buchanan to negotiate, which resulted in a joint occupancy of the island. Small quarrels, however, continued to arise until the year 1874, when the peppery question was submitted to the Emperor of Germany for arbitration. Then the whole island was given to the United States.
"Then tell me how you like this," she said. And she began to sing the most terrible song that Freddie Firefly had ever heard in all his life. It was no wonder that Freddie Firefly grew uneasy again as he listened to the song of Peppery Polly Bumblebee, while they flew towards the clover field through the darkness. The chorus, especially, filled him with alarm.
The lofty tower facing the east, she designated "the variegated and flowery Hall;" bestowing on the line of buildings, facing the west, the appellation of "the Hall of Occult Fragrance;" and besides these figured such further names as: "the Hall of peppery wind," "the Arbour of lotus fragrance," "the Islet of purple caltrop," "the Bank of golden lotus," and the like.
The odds were too great; there was nothing to do but to grumble a little and then acquiesce in the new leadership. As for the Dioscuri, they had the wisdom to see that one sharp campaign was enough; that for the rest they could further the good cause much more effectively by admirable creation than by peppery epigrams.
He filled his pipe and smoked a little while. Then: "How many sheep do they run?" he asked. "Nine or ten thousand, I guess." Silence again. Dad was smoking a little Mexican cigarette with corn-husk wrapper, a peppery tobacco filling that smarted the eyes when it burned, of which he must have carried thousands when he left the border in the spring. "Tim was over today," said Mackenzie.
This proclamation, says a peppery old chronicler, may well rank with the one excepting those arch traitors and rebels, Samuel Adams and John Hancock, from the mercy of the British monarch.
"Them Purcels allers was pretty peppery, and I guess they're more'n ever so now," said Rhoda. "Why?" asked Marge. "Why? Because they used to be the richest farmers about here. They owned pretty nigh all Lime Ridge once. Now they hain't got nothin' but that little Ridge farm. It's a stony little place, and how they manage to get a livin' off of it beats me." "How'd they happen to lose so much?"
"What's the matter, Terpy?" asked one of them. "What are you so peppery about? Bank busted?" The young woman explained the matter with more fairness than Keith would have supposed. "Oh, he is just a fool. Let him alone," said the man; whilst another added: "He'll come around, darlin'; don't you bother; and if he don't, I will." " him! He's got to go. I won't let him now.
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