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At the end of my address a gentleman came up to me and said, with a twinkle in his eye: "So that was you, was it? My name is Pettit, and I work the brick-yard now. I helped my father get that horse out of the pit, and I have cause to remember that knock on the head." He made me promise sometime to tell him what happened to me since, and if he will attend now he will have it all.
When they had found a table on the veranda, Dan turned his head slightly and saw Thatcher, Allen, and Pettit, the Fraserville editor, lounging in after-dinner ease at a table in a dim corner. "Why, there's Mr. Thatcher," exclaimed Marian. "And if that isn't Mr. Pettit! I didn't know he ever broke into a place like this." They all bowed to the trio. Thatcher waved his hand. "Mr.
Pettit turned from Lillian and me, and strode toward the bed where the sick girl lay, apparently raving in delirium, I called out to him in horror. "Oh, don't disturb that delirious, dying girl!" I made an impetuous step forward to try to stop him when Lillian caught my arm and whirled me into a recess of the alcove.
Touched to the heart, seeing the great need, and asking nothing better than to spend their lives in such a service, Miss Stone and Miss Pettit went "out into the world" that winter and gave talks in various cities, by spring raising enough money to start the desired Settlement School at Hindman.
At its seventy-eighth annual meeting Mrs. Payn Bigelow was elected president. It consisted at first of nine women. In those early days the country was a wilderness. Other members were added later. It has had in all, over nine hundred members. Mrs. Elizabeth Pettit was its presiding officer from 1840 until 1881 forty-one years.
John Pettit, late United States Senator from Indiana, has made the broadest assertion of Congressional sovereignty, for he has said and endeavored to prove that it is "absolute, unconditional, unlimited authority"; such, in fact, as would enable the Federal government to sell the citizens of the territories into slavery. Power to do an act is one thing a constitutional right to do it is another.
I stared uncomprehendingly. The sweet smile became sweeter. "Lor a bun, ma pettit fille, eh?" At last I understood. "Oh, yes, the water is excellent here," I replied, "and freezingly cold if you put your fingers in it." He departed in unceremonious haste. For some years I have watched the procession of nations on my path.
While the chairman of the state central committee was endeavoring to present as the temporary chairman of the convention a patriot known as the "War Eagle of the Wabash," the gentleman from Fraser insisted upon recognition. "Who is that preposterous fat man?" demanded Mrs. Owen, plying her palm-leaf fan vigorously. "That's Mr. Pettit, from our town," said Mrs. Bassett.
"Between campaigns we're all reformers," said Harwood guardedly. "I feel it working in my own system." "Between campaigns," replied the Honorable Isaac Pettit impressively, "we're all a contemptible lot of cowards, that's what's the matter with us. Was Thomas Jefferson engaged in manipulating legislatures? Did he obstruct the will of the people? Not by a long shot he did not!
"Dicky darling," the voice from the bed rose pleadingly, "don't you remember how you promised me to take me away from all this, how we planned to go far, far away, where no one would ever find us again?" Dr. Pettit turned almost savagely on me. "Promise or no promise," he said, "I will not allow this any longer. You must go out of this room and stay out." I stood up and faced him unflinchingly.
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