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He worked an elegant pair of slippers with pink cabbages on 'em for Miss Wood." "I bought 'em at Medicine Bow," blundered Baldy. "So yu' did!" assented the skilful comedian. "Baldy he bought 'em. And on the road to her cabin there at the Taylors' he got thinkin' they might be too big, and he got studyin' what to do.
"How these Taylors have pushed upwards; I never heard of them before I went to Europe this last time, five or six years ago." "That is just about the moment they first burst upon the horizon. Mr. Taylor seems determined to make up for lost time. He is very disagreeable to us ladies; but the gentlemen like him on account of his cleverness; they say he is a genius in all business matters."
Charles Calvert, and Tom Taylor urged me to do it. "Then," he said charmingly, "I can sing my stage Nunc Dimittis." The whole plan fell through, including a project for me to star as Juliet to the Romeo of a lady! I have already said that the Taylors' home was one of the most softening and culturing influences of my early life.
The Youngers were from the city of Strasburg on the Rhine, descending from the ruling family of Strasburg when that was a free city. My sainted mother was a direct descendant from the Sullivans, Ladens and Percivals of South Carolina, the Taylors of Virginia, and the Fristoes of Tennessee.
"What would your mother say if you were to carry home word that Mr Hope could not come that his family dare not part with him?" "Oh, then she must let me have my father's pistols, and watch for the fellows. If they came about our windows as they did about the Russell Taylors', how I would let fly among them!
To the quarter-deck, at which the taylors and painters were at work, cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth in the fashion of a crown and C. R. and put it upon a fine sheet, and that into the flag instead of the State's arms, which after dinner was finished and set up. This morn Sir J. Boys and Capt.
She likes him dangling round her so earnest him that no body ever saw dangle before. And he has quit spreein' with the boys. And what does he get by it? I am glad I was not raised good enough to appreciate the Miss Woods of this world," he added, defiantly "except at long range." At the Taylors' cabin we found Miss Wood sitting with her admirer, and Tommy from Riverside come to admire Miss Peck.
Hope joined his wife and sister, and walked his horse beside the path. "Who is that gentleman, Edward?" "I believe it is Mr Foster, the surgeon at Blickley." "What did he want with you?" "He wanted to know whether he was in the right road to the Russell Taylors." "The Russell Taylors! Your patients!" "Once my patients, but no longer so. It seems they are Mr Foster's patients now."
What's done there? have they forsaken the Divell & all his fashions? banishd their Taylors & Tyrewomen? Buz. You had a father & a Brother there; & can you first thinke upon the Divell & his Limetwiggs. Hen. Had, Buzzano? had a father & a Brother there? have I not so, still, Buzzano? Buz. No, sir, your Elder Brother is Hen. What? speake, Buzzano: I imagine, dead. Buz.
Accordingly the Taylors arrived a week before the wedding and the home took on a festive air. Even Colonel Cresswell expanded under the genial influences, and while his head still protested his heart was glad. He had to respect John Taylor's undoubted ability; and Mary Taylor was certainly lovely, in spite of that assumption of cleverness of which the Colonel could not approve.
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