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"The demagogues of this province have raised the devil, and cannot lay him again. We will exorcise him in God's name and the king's." "If you meddle with the devil, take care of his claws," answered the captain of Castle William, stirred by the taunt against his countrymen. "Craving your pardon, young sir," said the venerable selectman, "let not an evil spirit enter into your words.
You see we can't tell how many years it'll be before the poor baby outgrows its burns, and Mrs. Fogg'll never be the same again, and she must have somebody to help her." "You'll be their real daughter, then, won't you, Clara Belle? And Mr. Fogg is a deacon, and a selectman, and a road commissioner, and everything splendid." "Clara Belle Simpson!" exclaimed Rebecca in a transport.
I have received a document, signed by two citizens of a neighboring town, certified by the postmaster and a selectman, and these again corroborated, reinforced, and sworn to by a member of that extraordinary college-class to which it is the good fortune of my friend the Professor to belong, who, though he has FORMERLY been a member of Congress, is, I believe, fully worthy of confidence.
Tramping all day through bush and brier, fighting flies and mosquitoes, and branches that tangle the line, and snags that break the hook, and returning home late and hungry, with wet feet and a string of speckled trout on a willow twig, and having the family crowd out at the kitchen door to look at 'em, and say, "Pretty well done for you, bub; did you catch that big one yourself?" this is also pure happiness, the like of which the boy will never have again, not if he comes to be selectman and deacon and to "keep store."
"Looked a mite like Jed wanted we should go," said Scattergood. "I'll have the law on to him. He'll be showed that he can't stand up to the First Selectman of this here town, I'll "
The whole of Smyrna was ringing with the intelligence that Aholiah Luce had turned outlaw and was on the rampage. The constables, however, could give Selectman Sproul some news. They gave it to him after he had ordered them to surround Mr. Luce and take him, dynamite and all. This news was to the effect that they had resigned.
I'm going to spread the thing around town till I have enough to satisfy this judgment. It's for one hundred and ninety dollars. What say, now? Do you want to pay a fine for obstructing an officer?" Selectman Grant shook his head. The flame of his rage had died down into sullen rancor.
The Cap'n blinked up at him in mute query. "It ain't ever safe to sass people that's got the ear of the public, like reporters and show people," proceeded Hiram, rebukingly. "I've been in the show business, and I know. They can do you, and do you plenty, and you don't stand the show of an isuckle in a hot spider." "What are ye tryin' to get through you, anyway?" demanded the first selectman.
Tucker," said the selectman. "He appears to think he knows better what is good for him than we do. You may look upon him as a permanent boarder. What he says is of no account." Philip said nothing, but he looked full at the squire with an unflinching gaze. If ever determination was written upon any face, it was on his. "Come down there!" said Mrs. Tucker, addressing our hero. "You're at home now."
"Be you goin' to do your duty yes or no?" "If if you ain't a say, what have you got that rope around your neck for?" demanded the first selectman. "To show to the people that if I ain't protected from persecution and relieved of my misery by them that's in duty bound to do the same, I'll go out and hang myself and the blame will then be placed where it ought to be placed," declared Mr.
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