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Scofield was moved by the evident distress his words had caused in his nephew's mind, and relenting a very little, he said: "I will try you, then; instead of cutting you off at once, I give you a week to consider the matter over; if, in that time, you find you love me well enough to accede to my wishes, well and good; if not, I will surely do as I have said."
Price of Iowa asked: "Would any prudent and sensible business man who had given his note payable at his own option, without interest, be likely to give for it another note for the same amount payable at a certain time, with interest at six per cent semi-annually, in gold coin?" Mr. Scofield of Pennsylvania asked if the legal-tender notes were not, upon their face, payable on demand. Mr.
The material of the present, moulded, perhaps, into seemingly new forms, was always that of the past. This Polder was Essie Scofield and Jasper ... Byron. He, Howat Penny, was Penny and Jannan and Penny Daniel, James, Casimir, and Howat once more, the older Howat who had married the widow of Felix Winscombe. Black again.
One of them, turning, came towards him, his hat slouched over his face. It was Scofield.
W. C. Scofield was born near Wakefield, England, October 25, 1821, and spent the earlier years of his life in Leeds, where he was employed on machine work until his twenty-first year, when he determined to emigrate to the Western continent to seek his fortune. On reaching America he found his way westward until he arrived at Chagrin river in Cuyahoga county, where he found employment with a Mr.
That of Scofield probably stirred up "the adversary" more thoroughly than any other; that of Rollins was more calculated to conciliate and capture the votes of hesitating, or Border-State men; that of Garfield was perhaps the most scholarly and eloquent; while that of Stevens was remarkable for its sledge-hammer pungency and characteristic brevity. Mr.
Ef yer go ter de Yankee meetin', Coly kern't tote yer." "Well, well, Uncle Bone, that's enough," said old Scofield testily, looking through the stall-window at the horse, with a face anxious enough to show that the dangers of foundering for Coly and for the Union were of about equal importance in his mind.
"No," she breathed, her gloved fingers interlacing. Jasper Penny's lips were drawn in a hard line; Stephen gazed fixedly at the floor. The Mayor gesticulated affably toward the lawyer. "That'll do," he declared. "Pleasure, Mr. Penny, to have you so completely cleared. I shall have to demand your assistance further, though knowledge of Mrs. Scofield.
Scofield what had transpired between himself and Ida, he saw that his uncle was deeply disappointed and dissatisfied. "Boy!" he said, in more of a passion than Charles had ever seen him, "Boy, you've made a fool of the matter and of yourself, too!" "Why, uncle!" replied Charles, in utter astonishment. "Yes, you have!" continued the old gentleman, "and I am provoked at you.
His thoughts returned to Eunice, his daughter, the coming scene it would at least be that with Essie Scofield. It was but a short distance from the hotel to where Essie lived, over Fourth Street to Cherry; and almost immediately he turned by the three story brick dwelling at the corner and was at her door.
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