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I would not be spewed with the lukewarm out of the mouth of that Spirit from which proceeds all that is bright and pure and true. The vehemence with which I had rejected its divine bidding should at least be correspondent with my adoration of it. The snivelling claims of the Schofields I spurned. If, as they urged, "an artist must live," he must live royally or starve with a tight mouth.
As he crossed the court-house yard to the Palace Hotel, he stopped to exchange a word with the bell-ringer, who, seated on the steps, was mopping his brow with an air of hard-earned satisfaction. "Good-evening, Schofields'," he said. "You came in strong on the last stroke, to-night." "What we need here," responded the bell-ringer, "is more public-spirited men. I ain't kickin' on you, Mr.
They say every Sunday night he'll go up to Bardlocks' and call on Anna Belle from half-past six till nine, and when he's got into his chair he sets and looks at the floor and the crayon portraits till about seven; then he opens his tremblin' lips and says, 'Reckon Schofields' must be on his way to the court-house by this time. And about an hour later, when Schofields' hits four or five, he'll speak up again, 'Say, I reckon he means eight. 'Long towards nine o'clock, they say he skews around in his chair and says, 'Wonder if he'll strike before time or after, and Anna Belle answers out loud, 'I hope after, for politeness; but in her soul she says, 'I pray before'; and then Schofields' hits her up for eighteen or twenty, and Anna Belle's company reaches for his hat.
Likewise, the partners were disheartened by their failure to dispose of a crop of "greens," although they had uprooted specimens of that decorative and unappreciated flower, the dandelion, with such persistence and energy that the Schofields' and Williams' lawns looked curiously haggard for the rest of that summer. The fit passed: business languished; became extinct. The dog-days had set in.
"Many a good word I've had from him when nobody in town done nothin' but laugh an' rile an' badger me about my my bell." And Schofields' Henry began to cry openly. "He was a great hand with the chuldern," said one man. "Always have something to say to 'em to make 'em laugh when he went by. 'Talk more to them 'n he would to grown folks. Yes, sir." "They knowed him all right," added another.
It seemed evident that the first aim in Nat's mind was the hounding of the man who had been the cause of his father's death; for that death had occurred at a most opportune time for the Schofields. The heavy insurance on the fifty-year-old May was about to run out, and it was almost a certainty that Burns would not recommend its renewal except at a vastly increased premium.
Then all was silence. . . . Sunset, striking through a western window, rouged the walls of the Schofields' library, where gathered a joint family council and court martial of four Mrs. Schofield, Mr. Schofield, and Mr. and Mrs. Williams, parents of Samuel of that ilk. Mr.
Their loss was very severe, especially in general officers; among them Generals Cleburn and Adams, division commanders. General Schofields lose, reported officially, was one hundred and eighty-nine killed, one thousand and thirty-three wounded, and eleven hundred and four prisoners or missing: aggregate, twenty-three hundred and twenty-six.
"Do you know the Schofields?" he demanded of Thomas. "Guess I ought to. I've been dorymate with Code when the old man was skipper. A finer young feller ain't on this island." "Do you happen to know where he is?" asked Templeton. "I came to Grande Mignon on several important matters, and one of them was to see him. I've tried to locate the fellow, but he seems to have disappeared."
"By God, judge," said the man on horseback, "I'm afraid they have!" The court-house bell ringing in the night! No hesitating stroke of Schofields' Henry, no uncertain touch, was on the rope. A loud, wild, hurried clamor pealing out to wake the country-side, a rapid clang! clang! clang! that struck clear in to the spine.
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