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Bollman's departure from the jail, Sommers, turning to Bucholz, said, in a quiet, unconcerned manner: "I heard that the Schulte estate has been sold, and that the new-comer intends to tear down the buildings at once. He bought it on speculation, and expects to find Schulte's money." Bucholz was visibly affected by this information.
Sommers told Alves that she should influence Miss M'Gann to accept the clerk, instead of beguiling herself with the words of a talker. "You are unfair to Sammy," Alves had replied, with some warmth. "She would do very well to marry him; he is her superior." Sommers gave Alves a look that troubled her, and said: "Because the fellow is settling into an amiable Philistine?
But on the other hand, I could not, of course, venture to state unqualifiedly that there may not be certain isolated cases " "Pat! Do stop that growling! What ails you, anyway? I never saw him act that way before. I wonder if he could possibly be " She looked at Sommers questioningly. "Infected?" he finished for her understandingly.
Young Hitchcock had come down with typhoid while waiting in Tampa for a transport, and had been left in Sommers's camp. He greeted the familiar face of the doctor with a welcome he had never given it in Chicago. "Am I going to die in this sink, doctor?" he asked, when Sommers came back to him in the evening. "I can't say," the doctor replied, with a smile.
The perspiration rolled from the face of the anxious Sommers, and a doubt began to creep slowly into his mind. Robert, too, partook of the anxiety of his companion, while Paul Schmoeck, who scarcely understood the object of their visit, looked doubtfully upon the proceedings and indulged in frequent mutterings of disappointment.
They all seemed to be sure that snares and temptations would await them, and would Vida Sommers please say how these could be avoided by young and impressionable girls of good figure and appearance who were now waiting on table at the American House in Centralia, Illinois, or accepting temporary employment in mercantile establishments in Chicago, or merely living at home in Zanesville, Ohio, amid conditions unbearably cramping to their aspirations?
"I have often thought," Sommers protested rather vaguely, "that clergymen and doctors should be employed by the state to do what they can; it isn't much!" "There are the hospitals." Lindsay got up from his chair at the sound of an electric bell. "And our very best professional men practise there, give their time and money and strength. You will have to excuse me, as Mr.
With this abrupt question, Dr. Sommers was taken at once into a kindly intimacy with the Hitchcocks. Not long after this chance meeting there came to the young surgeon an offer of a post at St. Isidore's. In the vacillating period of choice, the successful merchant's counsel had had a good deal of influence with Sommers.
I don't even know where she comes from or goes to. God help her! If suspected, she is lost, for she will be sure to come to-morrow." "Don't break down, old man; they'll observe you. If she is taken are you willing to fight?" "Yes," answered the merchant sternly. "I am with you, then. Your name?" "Sommers. Yours?" "Brown."
Well, thick lips and flat nose and high cheek-bones and woolly hair are, you know, incompatible with beauty as understood by Englishmen " "Or Frenchmen either," added Sommers.
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