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Updated: September 26, 2025
Park House, which was the name of the mansion belonging to the Riverton estate, was a fine, old, substantial structure, which stood upon a rising ground, and looked out upon a richly undulating country, a considerable portion of which belonged to the property.
If it weren't for your matrimonial bonds, I should quite envy you." "I don't think you ought to go down to Riverton without someone responsible to look after you," objected Mrs. St. Orme dubiously. "My dear little mother, what a notion!" cried her step-daughter with a merry laugh. "Who ever dreamt of the proprieties on the river?
And after he'd seen Vandervelde, he'd go down south and visit that tiny brown house on the cove, and the River Swamp, and Neptune's old cabin, and the cemetery alongside the Riverton Road. It seemed to him that he smelled the warm, salt-water odors of the coast country again, saw the gray moss swaying in the river breeze, heard a mocking-bird break into sudden song.
And now he was come home again, and intended to pass the rest of his days at Riverton. This was all that report could confidently affirm at present. Was he an old bachelor or married? And if the latter, was his wife still living, and was there any family? Very conflicting rumours got abroad on this subject, but very little satisfaction came of them.
He felt that he was an evil man, a downright ungodly man, and he asked his wife what the devil she was sniffling about. In the middle of July a new settler put up a log cabin on a grassy plot in the swamps along Icelandic River, a short distance from what is now called Riverton in New Iceland.
He discharged himself out of hand, and went back to Riverton and Emma Campbell with forty dollars and a bundle of sketches. The doctor in Riverton got most of the forty dollars. However, as he needed a boy in his drug store just then, he gave the place to Peter, who took it willingly enough, as he was still feeling the effects of bad food and heavy farm work.
"If we do that now the fellow who engineered this business will be the first to get a copy of the paper and to make it public. Did any one see you leave this afternoon or did any one know why you went to Riverton?" "No, there was no one around when I left except yourself and only Hal and Art saw me return." "Then no one suspects that you have discovered this article and suppressed it.
She and Ned were as good friends as ever, but he was getting acquainted in Riverton now and wasn't so dependent on her society, etc. Katherine sighed and went on a fern hunt with Professor Keith. It was getting near the end of her vacation and she had only two weeks more. They were sitting down to rest on the side of the road when she mentioned this fact inconsequently.
But there was nothing to write, and I've felt too miserable to write if there had been. I don't know what is the matter with me. I'm just cross and horrid to everyone, even to poor Sidney. Mrs. Rennie has been queening it in Riverton society for the past month. People rave over her and I admire her horribly, although I don't like her. Mrs.
"So, they robbed the Riverton station and post-office as well, did they?" asked Harry. "Have they any notion as to who did it?" "Wall, Ah reckon ef dey did dey would have apprehended dem by dis, Master Harry. All dey know is dat de malcomfactors done come in a auto an' went away in a hurry." "Did the same fellows rob both places?" "Ah reckon dey did and done went to de bigges' place fust.
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