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I had expected from them, at least, as much admiration for my prize and my skill as their father had shown. "You don't seem to think much of this fine trout that I took such trouble to catch," I remarked. "You mean," said the elder girl, with a laugh, "that you bought of Barney Sloat." I looked at her in astonishment.
"That photograph was seen by Major Sloat in Jerrold's bureau-drawer at reveille this morning." And such was the situation at Sibley the August day the colonel took his wife and her lovely daughter to visit Aunt Grace at Lake Sablon. In the big red omnibus that was slowly toiling over the dusty road several passengers were making their way from the railway-station to the hotel at Lake Sablon.
"On my honor, of course." "Well, there!" A drawer was opened. Chester heard a gulp of dismay, of genuine astonishment and conviction mixed, as Sloat muttered some half-articulate words and then came into the front room. Jerrold followed, caught sight of Chester, and stopped short, with sudden and angry change of color. "I did not know you were here," he said.
Fremont made his way to the settled parts of California, near Monterey, where he found Commodore Sloat in command of a United States fleet.
Sloat, for the half of a fifty-vara lot on Harrison Street, between Fremont and First, on which there was a small cottage, and I had contracted for the building of a new frame-house thereon, at six thousand dollars. This house was finished on the 9th of April, and my family moved into it at once. For some time Mrs.
Sloat, for the half of a fifty-vara lot on Harrison Street, between Fremont and First, on which there was a small cottage, and I had contracted for the building of a new frame-house thereon, at six thousand dollars. This house was finished on the 9th of April, and my family moved into it at once. For some time Mrs.
"Here, I'll give you back the frame: I don't want that," said Sloat, and began fumbling at the back of the photograph. This was too much for the ladies. They, too, rushed to the rescue.
When war had been declared, the Pacific squadron did not learn of it until after the victories of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. Captain Sloat, in command, at once took prompt action. Landing two hundred and fifty seamen and marines under Captain Mervine, he captured Monterey on the 2d of July.
Maynard somewhat uneasily stretched forth her hand, and the other ladies impatiently strove to regain possession. "Come, Major Sloat, you've surely had it long enough. We want it again." "Never!" said Sloat, with melodramatic intensity. "Never! This is my ideal of perfection, of divinity in woman. I will bear it home with me, set it above my fireside, and adore it day and night."
But a more beautiful portrait was never photographed. The women fairly gasped with delight and envy. Sloat could not restrain his impatience to get it in his own hands, and finally he grasped it and then eyed it in rapture. It was two minutes before he spoke a word, while the colonel sat laughing at his worshipping gaze. Mrs.
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