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Updated: May 26, 2025
"Does Lee understand exactly where he is to go, and what he is to do, if by any chance he is discovered there? He does, eh? Well, I don't think he need anticipate the slightest trouble in that regard; but we've got to be prepared for every emergency. "Now, 'Specs, I want you to get off tomorrow night.
I passed into the lofty apartment, its walls lined from floor to ceiling with well-stocked book-shelves, and found the worthy knight seated in his own particular old easy-chair, with one foot ominously swathed in flannel reposing upon another; his specs on his nose, and the gazette in his hand.
When his mother was nussin' him, a helpless babe, he'd take the pins out'n her hair, and they didn't think it was anything but playin'. Once he stole the specs off'm her head whilst she was nappin' with him in her arms, and jammed 'em down a hole in the back of the rockin'-chair. Whilst old Doc Burns was vaccinatin' him and he wa'n't more'n tew years old he got Doc's watch."
But the baby would cry, and, in spite of all the young woman 'nd the nigger could do, Colonel Elijah Gates heard the baby cryin', and so he waked up. First his two blue yarn socks come through the curtains, 'nd then his long legs 'nd long body 'nd long face hove into sight. He come down the car to the young woman, 'nd looked at her over his specs.
"So it has been till this season." "And that picnics come here every once in a while." "Don't expect picnickers to be such crazy loons as to come here in winter time, do you?" "I don't know. If they're fools enough to come here ANY time, I wouldn't be responsible for 'em. There ain't so many moskeeters in winter. But just LOOK at this hole. Just put on your specs and LOOK at it!
The comps don't exactly choose; they just eliminate the ones who don't measure up to the specs. Which, I admit, doesn't leave many. Then the Sovereign checks the comp's choices, and sends a Ranger to invite the ones @ chooses. After that, only about a quarter of those who're asked to join, refuse." His expression sobered.
"Tell 'Specs' first to haul down the U. S. flag and run up my private signal. Then he is to silence every gun he can find that is bearing on us, and train a machine-gun on the door of the bulk-head, ready to fire when I give the signal by throwing up my hat. "Take Lawrence up to the instrument, Mr. Black," he directed, turning to Black who was giving "first aid" to the unfortunate valet.
The cow was lying down, breathing with difficulty. Elihu Perkins looked at her sharply through his "specs." "What do you think of her, neighbor Perkins?" asked the owner, anxiously. The cow doctor shifted a piece of tobacco from one cheek to the other, and looked wise. "I think the critter's nigh her end," he said, at last. "Is she so bad as that?" "Pears like it.
Unable to endure the piercing stare of his mother, he had withdrawn to the window, and was looking out with his back turned. But even there he could feel her eyes on the back of his neck. "I didn't think it 'ud matter," he mumbled. "A fellow with tortoiseshell-rimmed specs asked me, so I told him. How was I to know " His stumbling defence was cut short by the opening of the door.
I shall, I'm certain, and you must, provided you give your eyes the benefit, and your nose the burden of your green specs." "Impossible! I can scarce believe it, Warham," replied the senior. "I thought her very beautiful." "I shall never rely on your judgment again; nay, uncle, I am almost inclined to suspect your taste."
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