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"I came to see you and Elder Thorndyke and his wife," I said, "because I'm going back to Dubuque to get a load of freight, and I thought I might bring something for you." "Oh," said she, "take me with you, Teunis, take me with you!" "Could you go?" I asked, my heart in my mouth. "No, oh, no!" she said. "There's nobody in Kentucky for me to go to; and I haven't any money to pay my way with anyhow.
"'If the skipper hadn't been so gay and uppish about choosing Rosy, says Julius, 'there wouldn't have been no trouble. I do hate a smart Aleck. "'Who said draw straws? sputters George, mad clean through. 'And who 'eld 'em? 'Ey? Who did? "'Well, says Teunis, 'I didn't do it. You can't blame me. "'No. You set there like a bump on a log and let me and the mate put our feet in it.
Pretty soon there was an awful jabbering. "'They've settled it, says George, doleful. 'Well, there's enough of Teunis to last 'em for one meal, if they ain't 'ogs. You're a tough old bird, cooky; maybe you'll give 'em dyspepsy, so they won't care for the rest of us. That's a ray of 'ope, ain't it? "But the cook didn't seem to get much hope out of it.
Extracts from the minutes, by order, TEUNIS TAPPAN, Secretary to the Board.
Nobody could have done so well as I had done. I had snatched her from the very jaws of death. "Then," said I, "you're mine." "Of course I am," said she. "I've been yours ever since we lived together so beautifully on the road, and in our Grove of Destiny. Of course I'm yours and you are mine, Teunis ain't you?" "Then," said I, "just as soon as we get out of here, we'll be married."
I jumped in ahead of him, so as to show Virginia that her fellow was not the only patriot, and beat him to it. "So you are going to fight Kaintucky?" said she to me as if I had engaged to ruin everything she held dear. "We must save the Union," I said. "I didn't think of you being on the other side!" "Mr. Lockwood," said she, "this is Teunis Vandemark, an old friend of mine.
I want you to know when you are suffering and in danger that some one thinks of the kindest thing you ever did and maybe the kindest thing any boy ever did. You don't care about it now, maybe; but the time may come when you will." "What time was that?" I asked. "You know, Teunis," the tears were falling in her lap now.
Her folks come from Jersey somewheres. But she was adopted by old Cap'n Hammond, who keeps the tavern down on the bay shore by the packet wharf, and she's lived in Trumet since she was six years old. Her father was Teunis Van Horne, and he was mate on Cap'n Eben's coastin' schooner and was drowned off Hatteras.
He was a good enough American for Jacobus Teunis Vandemark. The next day was a wedding-day the marriage morning of the plow and the sod. It marked the beginning of the subdual of that wonderful wild prairie of Vandemark Township and the Vandemark farm.
I was already ashamed to have been led into a display of temper and a threat of quarrelling, here in the company of ladies, and on such an occasion. We were attracting attention, moreover, and Teunis and some of his Dutch friends had drawn nearer, evidently understanding that a dispute was at hand. The baronet's hint about Daisy completed my mortification.
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