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Pratt's more serious works that is attracting the deserved attention of Exposition visitors is "The Whaleman," a detail of his noble Whaleman's Memorial. This sculptor has done much to encourage individuality and earnestness among the younger men, not only by example but also in his capacity of instructor in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Young Diana Garden Exhibit, Colonnade
He found himself holding his breath in order to be sure that the clamor of a coyote was not a cowboy signal of attack. There was something vastly convincing in Jake Pratt's quiet drawl as he set forth the cause for war. Early the next morning, Jennison, the leader of the settlers, came riding into the yard. He was tall, grim lipped and curt spoken.
Now s'pose you kinder saunter round careless like to " "Mis' Mayberry," came in a doleful voice over the wall near the porch, and Mrs. Peavey's mournful face appeared, framed in the lilac bushes. "I've just been reading the Tuesday Bolivar Herald, and Bettie Pratt's own first husband's sister-in-law's child died last week out in Californy, where she moved when she married the second time.
"How'd it happen ter be stickin' ter them blackberry-bushes on the ledge?" Nick recognized it in an instant. It was Barney Pratt's button, and a bit of Barney Pratt's coat. But he knew well enough that he himself must have torn it when he wore it down to the Conscripts' Hollow. He realized that he should have at once told the whole truth of what he knew about the stolen goods.
Lady Newhaven had returned to Westhope ill with suspense and anxiety. They had met, and the clouds had not rolled away. She vainly endeavored to attribute Hugh's evident anger at the sight of her to her want of prudence, to the accident of Captain Pratt's presence. She would not admit the thought that Hugh had ceased to care for her, but it needed a good deal of forcible thrusting away.
I am staying with my mother, and I came across to ask him to take my boys to the pantomime, as I cannot take them myself so soon," with a glance at her crape. "Don't come down, Mr. Scarlett. I have given you enough trouble already." Captain Pratt's arm was crooked. He conducted her in his best manner to the foot of the staircase and helped her into his hansom.
They clung together almost as they had done when they were the riotous elements of the household, while Lance opened the front door, and Robina, mindful of appearances, impelled them into the hall, Bernard exclaiming, "Pratt's room! Whose teeth is it?" "Don't you want Wilmet to hold your hands and make you open your mouth?" said Lance, laughing.
Eldrick and Collingwood, returning to the hall from the room in which they and the detectives had found Pratt's dead body, stood a little later in earnest conversation with Prydale, who had just come there from an interview with Esther Mawson. Nesta Mallathorpe suddenly called to them from the stairs, at the same time beckoning them to go up to her.
John dropped the glass he had in his hand. 'Who is that? said Mr. Pratt's brother, an officer of the artillery. 'That is Teigue, said Mr. Pratt, laughing, 'whom you must often have heard me mention. 'And pray, Mr. Pratt, inquired another gentleman, 'who is Teigue? 'That, he replied, 'is more than I can tell. No one has ever been able to catch even a glimpse of him.
She had had a great shock, but the worst of it was over. Already she knew, from Pratt's manner, insidious and suggesting, that the will was of a nature that would dispossess her and hers of this recently acquired wealth the clerk had made that evident by look and tone. So there was nothing but to face things. "What what does it say?" she asked, with an effort.
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