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Updated: June 19, 2025
Small's terror: "And I'm not altogether surprised, with a finickin' feller like young Soames for a husband!"
Olmsby left the railroad company, married and went to Chico, in the Sacramento Valley, to run a stationery store. In 1876, the year that President Hayes was elected, his wife gave birth to a child and Olmsby sent a telegram to Mr. Hanford reading like this: "Boy, born last night, has Gerald's feet, Hank Small's hands, my good looks, and hollered for Hayes all night."
"He's gone to Come-Outers' meetin', I guess. There's one up to Barzilla Small's to-night." Mr. Barzilla Small lived in that part of the village called "down to the neck," and when the Captain arrived there, he found the parlor filled with the devout, who were somewhat surprised to see him. "Why, how do you do?" said Mrs. Small, resplendent in black "alpaca" and wearing her jet earrings.
"O' course, there must be some kind-'arted people in the world all men who get married must 'ave a soft spot somewhere, if it's only in the 'ead but they don't often give things away. Kind-'artedness is often only another name for artfulness, same as Sam Small's kindness to Ginger Dick and Peter Russet. "It started with a row.
"Well," replied he, "you made a very lucky escape that day: for do you know that we were twelve hundred strong, owing to colonel Small's joining us in the march?" "Then truly," said I, "if that were the case, I made a lucky escape, sure enough." "And where were you," he asked again, "when general Marion so completely surprised our guard at Nelson's old fields: were you there?"
Confound her! what right had she to look at me like that? Victor, or whatever his name was, was a cub and a cad and as fresh as the new paint on Ben Small's lighthouse, but he had deigned to speak. Whereas that girl ! No, I did not want to talk with Jedediah Dean. However, he wanted to talk to me, and what he wanted he usually got. Captain Dean was one of Denboro's leading citizens.
I'll hire a sleigh an' drive ye down to Sam Small's hut. I know that Sam has got one or two sleds and teams of dogs, for, like myself, he's an owld nor'-wester, an' likes to revive owld memories by takin' a trip now an' then in the owld fashion. There's no road av coorse, but dogs ain't like horses; they don't have no need of roads, so that don't matter. I'll git owld Bogus, the Injin, to help.
Small's eyes paid to his Aunt Matilda, and the quiet expression of pain that would flit across his face when Ralph's name was mentioned. And never until that moment had Hartsook understood how masterful Small's artifices were. He had managed to elevate himself in Mrs. White's estimation and to destroy Ralph at the same time, and had managed to do both by a contraction of the eyebrows!
"Shall I tell him about the noise we heard?" said the major. "It would only be fair," the captain said; and the result was told. "Well," he said, "Small's going to share my watch, and we'll have the guns. If whatever it is comes, I daresay we shall have a shot at it before it does us any mischief, and I suppose if you hear firing, gentlemen, you'll rouse up."
June answered that she had not, she hated the stuffy things; and rose to leave. Mrs. Small's infallibly chosen silence was far more ominous to her than anything that could have been said. Before half an hour was over she had dragged the truth from Mrs. Baynes in Lowndes Square, that Soames was bringing an action against Bosinney over the decoration of the house.
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