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"All this I told quite frankly to Maggie I mean Margaret Louise, because I had no secrets from her and never thought there was any reason why I shouldn't. Stevie has a horrid brother, also, who has been up here to dances. All the girls hate him because he is so spoony. He isn't as spoony as Margaret Louise's brother, but he's quite a sloppy little spooner at that.
Spooner would give him a chance, but the poll showed 1,454 votes for Mr. Muntz, and only 915 for Sir Charles. From the time of his entering the House of Commons, Mr. Muntz's political and public character seems to have become deteriorated.
Michael de Dezier there was a favourite little gorse which among hunting-men had acquired this unreasonable name. After a little consideration the Master yielded, and away they trotted. "You'll cross the ford, Fowler?" asked Mrs. Spooner. "Oh yes, ma'am; we couldn't draw the Daisies this afternoon if we didn't." "It'll be up to the horses' bellies." "Those who don't like it can go round."
Fourth Brigade, Colonel DAVID STUART. Fifty-fifth Illinois, Colonel O. Malmburg; Fifty-seventh Ohio, Colonel W. Mungen; Eighty-third Indiana, Colonel B. Spooner; One Hundred and Sixteenth Illinois, Colonel Tupper; One Hundred and Twenty-seventh Illinois, Lieutenant-Colonel Eldridge.
Once or twice Felipe fancied he detected faint, suspicious sounds in the hall; but when he listened at the door he heard nothing more. He did not see a number of shadowy figures which came up those unsteady stairs in a marvelously silent manner and vanished into the room occupied by old Spooner. It was quite late when the listening boy fancied he heard a familiar step on the stairs.
It was not until a week later, at the township Institute, which met at New Canaan, and which was also attended by the entire population, that her deep desire was gratified. It was during the reading of an address, before the Institute, by Miss Spooner, the teacher at East Donegal, that Fairchilds deliberately came and sat by Tillie in the back of the school-room.
"No; and that was because neither you nor I ever knew. Spooner's alternate was Bert Dodge!" "What? Bert Dodge, of Gridley?" demanded Cadet Holmes astonished. "That very chap," Prescott admitted. "When Spooner went home, after 'fessing out' here, Bert Dodge, who hadn't appeared, was ordered by wire to report at once, or have his name stricken out.
But she behaved very prettily to her papa and mamma on the occasion, never dropping a word which could lead either of them to suppose that she had interrogated Rachel, been confidential with the housemaid, conversed on the subject even with Spooner, and made a morning call on Martha Biggs herself.
I guessed at once that it was fired by my good friend Spooner in order to guide me, so I gave a reply signal; and on getting to the top of the next rise, I saw the plain in front of me all twinkling with lights.
'Well, said Madame de Netteville to Robert, with a deep breath; 'that was a remark to have hurled at you all at once out of doors on a summer's afternoon! Oh, Mr. Spooner! she said, raising her voice. 'Don't play the heretic here! There is no fun in it; there are too many with you. 'I did not begin it, my dear madam, and your reproach is unjust.
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