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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Some stranger," Dad muttered, turning to re-seat himself. "Why, it's it's the minister!" Sal cried "the minister that married Kate!" Dad nearly fell over. "Good God!" was all he said, and stared hopelessly at Mother. The minister for sure enough it was the Rev. Daniel Macpherson was coming in. There was commotion. Dave finished his tea at a gulp, put on his hat, and left by the back-door.
Under his square cap, on the edge of his glazed niche, he soliloquizes, while he smokes the short and juicy pipe which joins him in talking and spitting indeed, he seems to be answering it. A lonely toiler, his lot is increasingly hard, and almost worthless. He often comes in to us to do little jobs mend a table leg, re-seat a chair, replace a tile. Then he says, "There's summat I must tell you "
On alighting, however, he found that his greatcoat had been forgotten. He had to re-seat himself in the buggy and gallop back to the house, arriving at the station only just in time to leap into the train. "A close shave that!" he ejaculated as he sank on the cushions and wiped his face. "And in more senses than one, my dear. In tearing round a corner we nearly had a nasty spill.
At this, Lady Betty bounced off again offendedly. "You are an ungrateful pair," she flashed. "Before I brave meeting Jimmy Danvers in the passage again, in my dressing-gown, to come and tell you delicious things, I'll be hanged!" And it was with difficulty that Emily and Mary mollified her, and got her to re-seat herself on the bed and have a bit of their bread-and-butter.
Yet, though I kept very quiet, there came no further sound, and I was about to re-seat myself, when, afar off in that strange wilderness, there flashed out a sudden flame of fire. Now upon seeing fire in the midst of so much lonesomeness, I was as one amazed, and could do naught but stare.
Will you fill your glass again, sergeant?" The sergeant declined. "Not if my watch is to be effective to-night," he smiled, and rose to depart. The judge, grown suddenly thoughtful, rapped with his finger-tips on the table-edge. He had not yet risen to show his visitor out. "I should like to ask a question," he finally observed, motioning the other to re-seat himself.
'And if great words would re-seat us in Olympus, doubtless, with your potent aid, we might succeed. It never should be forgotten, however, that had we combined at first, in the spirit now recommended, the Olympians would never have triumphed; and least of all our party should Briareus and his friends forget the reasons of our disunion.
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