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"Was I ever at Torquay?" I asked once more, as firmly as I could. "And when I was there, did I go over one day to Berry Pomeroy?" Aunt Emma grew all at once as white as death. "This is wonderful!" she cried in an agitated voice. "This is wonderful wonderful! If you can remember that, my child, you can remember anything." "I DON'T remember it auntie," I answered, not liking to deceive her.
'No, you'll not go, he said in a low voice; and drinking off half his wine, set down the glass and regarded the other over it. 'Five and five are ten, Tommy. You are no fool, and I am no fool. 'I am not such a fool as to put my neck in a noose, the tutor retorted. 'And there is no other way of coming at what you want, Mr. Pomeroy. 'There are twenty, Pomeroy returned coolly.
Zenobia's husband declared to himself that he never dined so well, though he gave his chef 500 pounds a year, and old Lord Pomeroy, who had not yet admitted French wines to his own table, seemed quite abashed with the number of his wine-glasses and their various colours, and, as he tasted one succulent dish after another, felt a proud satisfaction in having introduced to public life so distinguished a man as William Ferrars.
Nays Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Ferry, Fessenden, Fowler, Frelinghuysen, Grimes, Harlan, Howard, Howe, Johnson, Morgan, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont, Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsay, Ross, Sherman, Sprague, Stewart, Thayer, Tipton, Trumbull, Van Winkle, Willey, Williams, Wilson, and Yates -37 36 Republicans and 1 Democrat.
And now poor little Charlie himself was gone, and the great desire of his father's heart was to regain possession of the image. With that view, as soon as the sale should be over he would start for Springfield, tell his story to Pomeroy, and offer him his money back again.
'Sho! man, where is the sport in that? Pomeroy cried, receiving the suggestion with disgust. 'It is what Lord Almeric proposed, Mr. Thomasson answered. The two glasses of wine he had taken had given him courage. 'I am no player, and at games of skill I am no match for you. A shadow crossed Mr. Pomeroy's face; but he recovered himself immediately.
Immediately upon the assembling of Congress, in December, 1868, Senator S. C. Pomeroy, of Kansas, presented a resolution as an amendment to the Federal Constitution providing that "the basis of suffrage in the United States shall be that of citizenship; and all native or naturalized citizens shall enjoy the same rights and privileges of the elective franchise; but each State shall determine by law the age," etc.
Nays Cameron, Cattell, Chandler, Conkling, Conness, Corbett, Cragin, Drake, Edmunds, Ferry, Frelinghuysen, Harlan, Henderson, Howard, Morrill of Maine, Morrill of Vermont. Morton, Nye, Patterson of New Hampshire, Pomeroy, Ramsay, Sherman, Stewart, Thayer, Tipton, Williams, Wilson and Yates 28 all Republicans. So the proffered testimony was refused. No. 9.
He was doin' a job of whitewashin' one day, and he had an old whitewash brush with most of the hair gone out of it. I says to him, 'Pomeroy, why don't you get you a new brush? you could do twice as much work. And Pomeroy says, 'That's right, Mr. Bines, but the trouble is I ain't got twice as much work to do. So don't you folks get out on my account," he concluded, politely.
"Forgive me for not thinking of your being tired, mother," and he bent over and pressed his lips upon the cheek of the sick woman. "But don't talk any more. Wait till to-morrow." In the afternoon Frank had a call from Sam Pomeroy. "The club is to play to-morrow afternoon against a picked nine, Frank," he said. "Will you be there?" "I can't, Sam," he answered.
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