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Updated: May 5, 2025
Not a few of those who bear a prominent part in the government of our country more than one of the first men of the nation men whose names are now heard in connection with the highest office of the people twenty years ago, occupied a place as humble in the scale of influence, as that flaxen-haired son of the stoop-shouldered emigrant.
He never married, and the income from his investments was all and, indeed, more than he needed to secure him against want. He was now past threescore, grizzled, somewhat stoop-shouldered, but robust, rugged, strong, and, in his way, happy.
He was plenty good enough Spaniard as it was; his face was very dark, his hair very black, and his eyes were not only exceedingly black but were very intense, and there was something about them that indicated that they could burn with passion upon occasion. He was stoop-shouldered and lean-faced, and the general aspect of him was disagreeable; he was evidently not a very companionable person.
"Oh, I beg pardon; I didn't mean any offense. What I started out to ask was only about the old woman that raided the town the stoop-shouldered old woman, you know, that you said you were going to catch; and I knew you would, too, because you have the reputation of never boasting, and well, you you've caught the old woman?" "Damn the old woman!"
Mock, resolved to become a good soldier again, had undergone his humiliation in the bull-pen, and the scorn of his fellow-prisoners, in order to trap the stoop-shouldered German, a pretended carpenter, but really August Biederfeld, a German spy. The bespectacled one, Dr. Carl Ebers, was another spy. The two had delivered their messages in camp through Braun.
I remembered she had told me that the Judge walked each evening after his dinner, and I am ashamed to confess that the next evening dark found me waiting on their street corner, like a scullery maid's beau, until I saw his stoop-shouldered figure come down the steps with the lank, grizzled "Laddie" behind, and heard the beat of his grapevine stick recede down the avenue.
Frederick Hartzell reared his stoop-shouldered, narrow-chested, but commanding figure, and, in a most impressive and scholarly manner addressed the Association. "Of course I don't know anything about this matter, Brethren; it's all news to me.
A sign hung over its door which bore the rudely lettered words: "Rutledge's Tavern." A long, slim, stoop-shouldered young man sat in the shade of an oak tree that stood near a corner of the tavern, with a number of children playing around him. He had sat leaning against the tree trunk reading a book. He had risen as they came near and stood looking at them, with the book under his arm. . . .
"You're ready now?" "To do anything," Mock agreed. "Sure! He's all right!" Private Wilhelm nodded. "I've attended to that." "Come here, Carl!" called the stoop-shouldered one, in a low voice. From another clump of bushes came another man, bearded and bespectacled. If there's anything in a face, Carl was unmistakably German. "Carl will tell you what to do," said time stoop-shouldered one.
"I can shoot as straight as most men," he said smoothly. "But sometimes I miss an inch or two at this distance. You men who don't want to take any unnecessary chances had better give Sandy a little more elbow-room!" The stoop-shouldered man squared himself a little, jerked up his head, took on a fresh air of defiance.
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