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Stoddard in his last illness; and from a number of letters written to her, at that time, by her pupils, we select the following: JANUARY 1st, 1857. Many of your flock have observed this as a day of fasting and prayer; and all have looked on it as a blessed day.
Well now, after being the whole show, don't you think it more than likely that Mr. Jepson might overlook the main squeeze me?" He tapped himself on the breast and nodded his head significantly. "That's it," he went on as she smiled enigmatically. "I know these great financiers. I'll bet you right now our fat friend Abercrombie is down telegraphing the news to Stoddard.
He hesitated, glanced about him, and finally placed himself uneasily in the chair beside her. Good Lord! The situation was impossible. What should he say if anybody Gray Stoddard, for instance chaffed him about being smitten in this quarter? "A waltz?" echoed Johnnie helpfully when he did not go on. "I believe I could dance that I tried it once." "Then you'll dance it with me?"
Conroy glanced half wistfully over his shoulder in the direction where Johnnie had vanished. "She's a good-looker all right," he said thoughtfully. "And smile when that girl smiles and turns those eyes on you by George! if she was taken to New York and put through one of those finishing schools she'd make a sensation in the swagger set." Stoddard nodded gravely.
Stowe, Whipple, Rose Terry Cooke, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs. Prescott Spofford, Mrs. Phelps Ward, and other New England writers who still lived in New England, and largely in the region of Boston. Occasionally there came a poem from Bryant, at New York, from Mr. Stedman, from Mr. Stoddard and Mrs. Stoddard, from Mr. Aldrich, and from Bayard Taylor.
But when it comes to women" MacPherson paused and shook his gray head "to young, pretty women a man must stick to his own class." "You mean the girl in the corridor," said Stoddard with that directness which his friends were apt to find disconcerting. "I haven't classified her yet. She's rather an extraordinary specimen."
The lives of all three depended on her cool head at this moment. She remembered now all that Stoddard had said the morning he taught her to run the car. With one movement she threw off the switch, thus stopping the engine, entirely.
That money had been borrowed, and while Rimrock took in velvet, Stoddard was obligated to pay his debts. Several months went by and, patient Indian that he was, Rimrock still followed on Stoddard's trail. He looked up his connections with the Transcontinental railroad and there he made his first strike.
Hardesty he had taken to dodging into the bar, where he could be safe from her subtle advances; but on Christmas eve he went too far. They all went too far, in the matter of drinking, but Rimrock went too far with Buckbee. He told him just exactly what he intended to do to Stoddard; which was indiscreet, to say the least.
If the spirit of feud was aroused against the mill owners, if the Groners and Dawsons had been able to enlist their kin and clan, she was well aware that the man or woman who gave her smiling information as to ways and means, might, the hour before, have looked on Gray Stoddard lying dead, or sat in the council which planned to kill him.
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