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Fannie gave Shotwell the place beside her, and so on. Even Johanna, by taking a child in her lap, got a seat. But Ravenel and Colonel Proudfit had to stand up beside Fannie and Barbara. Thus it fell out that when everyone laughed at a moonshiner's upsetting on a pile of loose telegraph poles, Ravenel, looking out from over the swarm of heads, saw something which moved him to pull the bell-cord.
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Dotty needed no coaxing to keep on doing mischief, but hit the musical knife harder than ever, giving it a dizzy motion, like the clapper in a mill. Prudy was quite annoyed by the sound, but did not really know whether to be nervous or not, and concluded to express her vexation in groans: the groans she was giving in memory of the departed Mr. Shotwell, who had died of a "cannon bullet."
"He barely touched him," was the disappointed reply of one. "Thank the Lawd faw evm that little!" responded another. Shotwell pulled March away, Halliday following. Near the rear door "Johnnie," began the General, with an air of complete digression, but at the woebegone look that came into the young man's face, the old soldier burst into a laugh.
The Shotwell Street house was still close and stuffy, the bedrooms as dark and horrible as Julia remembered them, and no financial aid did more than temporarily soften the family's settled opinion that poor folks were poor folks, and predestined to money trouble.
"See that second man on the left?" whispered Captain Shotwell to an old army friend from Charleston; "that handsome felleh with the wavy auburn hair, soft mustache, and big, sawt o' pawnderin' eyes?" "What! that the Governor? He can't be over thirty or thirty-one!" "Governor, no! he wouldn't take the governorship; that's Jeff-Jack Ravenel, editor of the Courier, a-ablest man in Dixie.
Johnnie, he on'y sec'ta'y an' 'ithout a salary as yit, though him an' his maw got oh! I dunno but enough so he kin sell it faw all his daddy could 'a' sole the whole track faw that is, perwidin' he kin fine a buyeh. Champion, Shotwell, the Graveses all that crowd, they jess on'y the flies 'roun' the jug; bymeby they find theyse'ves onto the fly-papeh." The pair laughed again, and "Oh! escuse me!"
"You are the only coloured person living in the square and he said plain enough for anybody to understand, 'Easton-street, corner of Shotwell. I heard every word but what they said towards the last in a whisper." "You couldn't catch anything of it?" asked Mr. Walters. "No, I missed that; they talked too low for me to hear." After reflecting a few moments, Mr.
Entering a shed Barbara laughed with delight. "Fannie!" "Barb!" cried Fannie. A volley of salutations followed: "Good-morning, Major" "Why, howdy, Doctor. Howdy, Jeff-Jack. Shotwell, how are you? Let me make you acquainted with Mr. Fair. Mr. Fair, Captain Shotwell. Mr.
It had been a day of upsettings for David Kent, beginning with the late breakfast at which Neltje, the night watchman at the railway station, had brought him Penelope's telegram. At ten he had a case in court: Shotwell vs. Western Pacific Co., damages for stock-killing; for the plaintiff Hawk; for the defendant Kent.
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