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Pierce's, where she was making herself mighty fine to go to a great ball to-night at Court, being the Queene's birth-day; so the ladies for this one day wear laces, but are to put them off again to-morrow, To Mrs. Williams's, where we met Knipp. I was glad to see the jade. Made her sing; and she told us they begin at both houses to act on Monday next.
Jonathan Cilley, of my own class, whose untimely fate is still mournfully remembered, a person of very marked ability and great social influence, was another of Pierce's friends. All these have long been dead.
Pierce, who tells me the King do still sup every night with my Lady Castlemayne, who he believes has lately slunk a great belly away, for from very big she is come to be down again. Thence to Mrs. Pierce's, and with her and my wife to see Mrs.
Franklin Pierce's earliest effort at the bar, as we have already observed, was an unsuccessful one; but instead of discouraging him, the failure had only served to awaken the consciousness of latent power, and the resolution to bring it out. Since those days, he had indeed gained reputation as a lawyer.
"The fellow, seeing I was not to be outdone, gave it up for a bad job, and contented himself with following me here and there, keeping a fixed eye on my motions, as if he feared I was going to become enamoured of some of Mr. Pierce's chambermaids, which said commodity was acknowledged to be very pretty, and much admired by Jones, who did the fashionable at Willard's.
Here we sat talking till past one in the morning, and then home, where my people sat up for me, my wife and all, and so to bed. 15th. He being gone, I took coach and to Mrs. Pierce's, where I find her as fine as possible, and himself going to the ball at night at Court, it being the Queen's birth-day, and so I carried them in my coach, and having set them into the house, and gotten Mr.
Pierce's political policy. It was impossible! not all the trigonometry of which they were masters sufficed to aid them in the task. It seemed like attempting to solve the principle of that which never had one. He stood on a platform of sections, each of which turned at a touch, and seemed giving way for want of strength.
The Countess stepped to Pierce's side, inquiring, quickly, "What is this, a joke?" "I thought so at first, but it looks as if I'll be cutting figure eights on the end of a tent-rope." "What makes them think you did the stealing?" "The McCaskeys swear I did. You see, I had no outfit of my own " "Are you broke?" "N no! I wasn't yesterday. I am now."
"She ain't got no room," said the child shrilly; "she's in old Mis' Pierce's room, down thar," pointing to a closed door; "that's whar they took her when they brung her in. There wan't no room anywheres else." "Oh! Was she taken ill on the street?" The child nodded. "Got a sunstroke, I guess," and Sara hurried on to the designated door. She knocked lightly, then opened it and entered.
I'm going to play a man's part right along after this." He urged her eagerly. "We've a hard trip ahead of us before we reach Dawson; winter may overtake us and delay us. We can't continue in this way. Why wait any longer?" "You mean ?" the woman inquired, faintly. "I mean this marry me here, to-morrow." "No, no! Please " The Countess freed herself from Pierce's embrace. "Why not?
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