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The train was composed of coach bodies, mostly from Thorpe and Sprague's stage coaches, placed upon trucks.
The window was already open, but the screen had to be raised, too, and Sprague's fingerprints had to be on the nickel catches by which the screen curtain is raised or lowered. Of course Sprague had not touched the screen " "Do you mean to say he lugged the corpse to the window and lifted it up so that he could press the stiff fingers upon the nickel catches?" Sanderson asked with a shudder.
Shelby's face sobered with a premonition of misfortune. "What's to pay now?" he asked. Bowers struck open a copy of Volney Sprague's newspaper, and with stubby rigid thumb guided the candidate's glance to an editorial. "Read that, sir." His tone was a new thing in their intercourse, but without remark Shelby read:
"Yes, mother, Polly is right. How could you ever lift up your head if it were said that son of John Sprague's Governor, Senator, minister abroad was the last to fly to his country's call? Why, Jackson would turn in his grave if a son of John Sprague were not the first to take up arms when the Union that he loved, as he loved his life, was in peril!" Mrs.
Dr. Sprague's book contains pictures of life under both the old régime and the new. The following extract from the venerable Josiah Quincy's recollections of the Rev. Mr. French, of Andover, is interesting, as an illustration of the olden times. "Mrs. Dowse, my maternal aunt, has often related to me her pride and delight at visiting at the Rev. Mr.
Sprague's diary, wherein he gives the following account of the wonderfully dark day in 1780, a good reminder of which we experienced September 6, 1881, a century later: FRIDA May the 19th 1780. To the antiquarian, the historian, or the general scholar, there are few more interesting studies than that of names.
The doctor discovered them soon after he started on his journey, and with a smile tossed the camomile out of the window, while he gave the cookies to a poor woman who was traveling with a couple of small children in the same car as himself. So that Nancy Sprague's thoughtfulness was not wholly lost, though the intended recipient did not benefit by it.
"That is true," said the professor, looking at the sun. "Some other day, with Mrs. Sprague's permission, I will take you to the Colosseum and then we will hear about the empire." Edith was sitting at the hotel window with her note-book open before her. "Professor Gates tells us so much," she said, "that it is all mixed up in my mind.
The murder we may not be able to establish, though we have witnesses of the shooting." It was arranged that Sprague's counsel should see the judge-advocate at once, Kate giving him the address in case by any accident she should be prevented from seeing the Spragues. As she left the room, under a fusillade of admiring glances, she leaned on her father's arm, trembling but resolute.
Sprague's Brigade, of the same corps, was engaged at the same time within hearing, but on a different field, at Decatur, fighting and stubbornly holding that place, knowing that if he failed the trains massed there and en route from Roswell would be captured.
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