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Rennie had known his secret feelings towards the country families, she might have set her mind at rest as to their rivalry; but Francis was very reserved, and his training had not led him to place confidence in any one, till his heart had recently opened to his cousin Jane.
George's, to hear Mr. C , with Eleanor Watson and her brother. You had better come with me; it is the last Sunday he is to preach in Edinburgh," said Miss Rennie. "You must excuse me this once," said Mr. Hogarth; "I have a great wish that Miss Melville should hear my minister. At any other time I will be at your command."
"You ride in from nowhere with two fine horses wearing a brand you say is your own. You have more money than any drifter ever carries. You claim to be a Texan, and yet now you say all the proof of your identity is in Kentucky. And—you are not Anson Kirby’s cousin, are you?" That last question was shot out so suddenly that Drew answered before he thought. "No." "I thought so." Hunt Rennie nodded.
I had nearly exhausted all my stock of real perceptions, and was beginning to be forced to recombine my old thoughts, so as to produce new associations of the strange and wonderful, when I accidentally met with Mr W , a gentleman well known in the world of experimental science by the improvements he made on the diving-bell, in addition to the contributions of Rennie and Spalding.
Back-in-Kentucky proof would not help him here and now in Arizona. "Kentucky?" Rennie’s withdrawal appeared to increase by a score of miles. "I understood you were from Texas." "Told you, Rennie," the lieutenant said, "his story doesn’t hold together at all. A couple of really good questions and it falls right apart." "I came here from Texas." Drew took stiff hold of himself.
When, after those few days that followed days for me of heart-breaking conflict of feeling, and for my two children of tears, silent misery and struggling passion, culminating at last, when the storm burst, in complete mutual understanding, and a joint determination that carried all before it when, I say, Aunt Rennie, defeated, prepared to take her leave, she said a word to me which I often thought of afterwards.
Rennie was called upon, in 1797, to examine and report upon the best means of improving the harbour, when he recommended the construction of floating docks upon the sandy flats called Foot Dee. Nothing was done at the time, as the scheme was very costly and considered beyond the available means of the locality. But the magistrates kept the subject in mind; and when Mr.
And should you let this stud of yours run with a picked manada of mares, I could promise good fees." "Suppose I said yes if the fees were some of the foals—of my own choosing, suh?" Drew asked. Rennie ran a finger across the brand which scarred the gray’s hide. "Spur R—that’s a new one to me." "My own.
But to refuse, after Topham had spoken for him ... he was caught in a pinch with cause for suspicion closing in on either side. "I was in Kentucky for about a year after the war. I went to stay with a friend—" "But you are from Texas?" Was Rennie watching him too intently? No, he must ride a tighter rein on his imagination.
"You know " Drew regarded a circling bird in the section of sky above her head "some day I hope I'll discover just what kind of a no-account Hunt Rennie was, to make his son so unacceptable. Most of the Texans I've ridden with in the army haven't been so bad; some of them are downright respectable." "I don't know." Again she flushed. "It was a long time ago when it all happened.
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