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"It is strange to think of Horace Richmond struggling with that parrot, and putting up his elaborate schemes, while the document which would have given him all he wanted was hidden in his own room." Horace Richmond's face at that moment was an amusing spectacle. So was Mrs. Pond's. "Never mind, daughter," said the colonel. "It is better so. I will make good the loss to you."
He had pulled out his watch, and at that moment Richmond's voice sounded clearer, as the two out there in the garden came to summon him. "By George!" said Greenleaf Gilman, "I've got to go." He rose, and took her hand. He stood there for a moment, holding it, and they looked at each other in a faithful trust.
"His daughter's needle is now his only support, as Mr. Richmond's failing sight keeps him unemployed. The other members of the family are too young to earn anything." George had been deeply touched by these revelations. He picked a flower from the bush, and put it into his button-hole.
Here I feel all the time as if I were walking among traps blindfolded." The ball of the Jardin d'Hiver in the Champs Élysées was a superb success. The immense glass-house was fitted up for dancing, and all went merry as a marriage-bell, with a crater about to open under our feet, as at the duchess of Richmond's ball at Brussels. Miss Leare was there, but quiet and dignified.
I will explain: Don't you see Richmond's first speech, 'Thus far into the bowels of the land, is typical of the miner. He makes his living by driving into the bowels of the land, don't he?" "You bet he does, and good money, too," answered Smith enthusiastically. "Into the bowels of the land, or earth, as the case may be, have we marched on without impediment."
"You must watch for the system by which she communicates with her confederate in Richmond's house. They work the mails, but there must be some quicker means to use in emergencies. "Try to snare a letter, or get a sight of the other party. "And be sure not to jump at conclusions, Patsy. I've told you how the case looks, but it may be any other way. I haven't begun to work down to it yet."
"Of course, it was possible," exclaimed Miss Stevens. "She could have run up the back stairs at any time." She proceeded to explain this theory, until it seemed quite plausible. And yet all the time she was filling the detective's mind with the blackest suspicions against herself. Here was the case: The plotters were trying to work on Colonel Richmond's superstitions.
Lee, with inferior numbers, alert, resourceful, vigilant, had checked and baffled him at every turn, and Richmond's fall was no nearer to human eye than in 1862. The miles and miles of hospital barracks in Washington, crowded to their doors with wounded, dying men, were the living witnesses of the Nation's mortal agony. Every city, town, village, hamlet and county in the North was in mourning.
She told her majesty that a constant and sincere repentance had induced her to contrive all possible means for retiring from court: that this reason had inclined her to receive the Duke of Richmond's addresses, who had courted her a long time; but since this courtship had caused his disgrace, and had likewise raised a vast noise and disturbance, which perhaps might be turned to the prejudice of her reputation, she conjured her Majesty to take her under her protection, and endeavour to obtain the king's permission for her to retire into a convent, to remove at once all those vexations and troubles her presence had innocently occasioned at court.
Richmond at his office, I was told by one who was present that Richmond's picturesque vocabulary of indignation and denunciation was enriched to such a degree as to astonish and shock even the hardened Democrats who listened to the outburst. A committee was appointed to wait on the governor and request him to appear before the convention.
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