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Updated: June 15, 2025
Ferd Eastman, when the gentleman, who had been making a ten-days visit to the city, left a day or two earlier for Virginia City. "Pretty soon after his wife's death!" Susan had accused Mary Lou, vivaciously. "Ferd has often kissed me like a brother " stammered Mary Lou, coloring painfully, and with tears in her kind eyes.
"You're not married?" she asked, "you're not married?" then, breaking off suddenly: "I don't care if you are, I don't! I love you love you! Nobody would look after you as I would. I don't; no, I don't care." She drew up closer and closer to him. "No, I don't mean that I was married," he said. "I meant what you know that my life isn't worth, perhaps, a ten-days' purchase."
The chronology of the Bible is thus altogether obsolete." The idea of a seven-days' creation was not confined to the Jews: it was shared by the Persians and Etruscans. The division of the year into months and weeks is a general, although not a universal practice. The ancient Egyptians observed a ten-days' week, but the seven-days' week was well known to them.
When he returned at three o'clock, the door of Mr. Labertouche's private office was ajar and that gentleman was at his desk. The memorandum was, however, gone. Mr. Labertouche was in the process of opening and reading a ten-days' accumulation of correspondence, an occupation which he suspended temporarily to call his clerk in and receive his report.
"Well, the next day after the play the Easter vacation began, you know, and Flora forged a letter from her father, giving her permission to spend the ten-days' Easter holiday with one of the girls who lived in Atlanta," Miss Earle continued, with great relish. "Well, sir, right in the middle of the holidays, here came her father and mother they were both alive then and asked for Flora!
The Art Exhibition, for which Bertram was preparing his four pictures, was to open the sixteenth, with a private view for specially invited friends the evening before. On the eleventh day of February Mrs. Greggory and her daughter arrived at Hillside for a ten-days' visit. Not until after a great deal of pleading and argument, however, had Billy been able to bring this about.
Our passage alone costs us from seven hundred to a thousand dollars, or even more and our ten-days' motor trip the invariable climax of the expedition rendered necessary by the fatigue incident to shopping at least five hundred dollars.
The room was littered with trunks and cases. All the treasure had been brought into the sick man's chamber for greater safety. On a narrow bed near the window a man lay huddled on his side. He turned and looked over his shoulder, showing a haggard face with a ten-days' beard on it. He looked from one to the other in silence. It was Colonel de Casimir. I see my way, as birds their trackless way.
In a single ten-days' bout in the jacket I have gone back and back, from life to life, and often skipping whole series of lives that at other times I have covered, back to prehistoric time, and back of that to days ere civilization began.
"You're not married?" she asked, "you're not married?" then, breaking off suddenly: "I don't care if you are, I don't! I love you love you! Nobody would look after you as I would. I don't; no, I don't care." She drew up closer and closer to him. "No, I don't mean that I was married," he said. "I meant what you know that my life isn't worth, perhaps, a ten-days' purchase."
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