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"Yes ma'am she is to be the queen of the Persian king here what is his name? Ahasuerus! She is Esther." Daisy opened her lips to say no, but Preston got her into his arms, and softly put his hand upon her mouth before she could speak the word. The action was so coaxing and affectionate, that Daisy stood still, silent, with his arms round her. "Queen Esther!" said Mrs. Sandford.
You know I threatened to bore you every day; but I sha'n't continue the terebrations long at a time. You told me about the way your notes were disposed of. Now they are yours, beyond question, and you can recover them from the holder; he has no lien upon them whatever, for Sandford was not authorized to pledge them. It's only a spoiling of the Egyptians to fleece a broker."
My mother uttered an exclamation of impatience. "Does that man come to see you or me, Daisy?" she asked. "Mamma, I think he is a kind friend to both of us," I said. "I suppose every woman has a tenderness for a man that is enamoured of her, if he is ever so great a fool," she remarked. "Mamma! nobody ever accused Dr. Sandford before of being a fool." "He is a fool to look at you.
The owner of Sandford Abbey stood meanwhile with his hand on his hip watching the receding figures. There was a smile on his handsome mouth, but it was an angry one; and his muttered remark as he turned away belied the unconcern he had affected. "That comes, you see, of not letting me be engaged to Stephen!" said Hester in a white heat, as the three walked on together.
I left them after we had arrived at the tacit understanding that if President Cleveland should make the appointment, Mr. Sandford would accept it with the end in view that I had proposed. I went to report my progress, in a cipher telegram, to Salt Lake City, and I recall the peculiarly mixed satisfaction with which I regarded my work, as I walked the streets of New York after this interview.
"I've nothing especial to say, doxy, only that I will wind up with Sandford as soon as we finish the business in hand." "The business in hand? Has he anything to do with Foggarty, Danforth, and Dot?" Fletcher was not skilful under cross-examination. So he simply answered, "No," and then stopping her mouth with kisses, promised to explain the matter another day.
I summoned my forces and plunged him into a depth of political and philosophical discussion which he could not get out of till he left me again at my own door. I reassured Mrs. Sandford then; and sat down to my worsted embroidery with a profound sense of how little my strength was. A few minutes afterwards Dr. Sandford came in.
Sandford did not show remarkable care in that." "He thought so, mamma, for he found me not well, and took me away immediately from school, without waiting for the term to close. Mrs. Sandford and he, were going to West Point and so " "West Point did you good?" "I grew well there." "Your aunt tells me, your voice is very uncommon, Daisy. Is she right in that?"
As he looked at the exterior of the letters, which were stamped and postmarked, he observed that they must have been taken out of the post-office at Sandford Cross-Roads, to expedite their delivery; the postmaster doubtless consenting to this request on the part of so reputable-looking a person or a possible acquaintance. "Were you expecting a visitor?" asked the coroner.
Uncle Remus was in an ecstasy, and the Little Boy shouted for joy. Every one praised it except Sandford and Merton, who said that it didn't give any useful information except that monkeys had tails, a fact which was already well known, being mentioned in all the Natural History books. For their part, when it came to poetry they preferred some fine passages in Dr. Young's "Night Thoughts."
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