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Teunis Van Dam was held by most of her townsfolk and by all newcomers, and Cora, with her own ideas of the part which she, as the governor's wife, should play, had taken Mrs. Tommy's frothy nonsense at rather more than its surface value. She was more than ever alive to Mrs.
I'll take care of it for the gentleman. "All the rest of that day the Cap'n couldn't do enough for the passenger. Give him a big dinner that took Teunis two hours to cook, and let him use his own pet pipe with the last of Jule's tobacco in it, and all that. And that evening in the cabin, Rosy told his story.
"Ha! well met, Cousin Sobriety!" he cried. "Let us cross the hall, and get near the punch-bowl." "It is my idea that you have had enough," I answered. "'Too much is enough, as the Indian said. He was nearer the truth than you are," replied Teunis, taking my arm. "No, not now! First let me see who is here." "Who is here? Everybody from Hendrik Hudson and Killian the First down.
And then I can do something to repay my new father and mother for all they are doing for me. And you must come to church, Teunis." "Virginia says," said the elder, "that you have a good voice. I wish you'd come and help out with the singing." "Oh, I can't sing," I demurred; "but I'd like to come. I will come, when I get back." "Yes, you can sing," said Virginia.
My name is Jacobus Teunis Vandemark. I usually sign J.T. Vandemark; and up to a few years ago I thought as much as could be that my first name was Jacob; but my granddaughter Gertrude, who is strong on family histories, looked up my baptismal record in an old Dutch Reformed church in Ulster County, New York, came home and began teasing me to change to Jacobus.
Teunis H.C. Mulder, of the Pretoria commando, celebrated his sixteenth birthday only a few days before he was twice wounded at Ladysmith on November 9th, and Willem François Joubert, a relative of the Commandant-General, was only fifteen years old when he was wounded at Ladysmith on October 30th.
I am alone in the world, Teunis, except for you and my new father and mother and I'm afraid they are pretty poor, Teunis, to feed and clothe a big girl like me!" "How much money would it take?" I asked. "I guess I could raise it for you, Virginia." "You're a nice boy, Teunis," she said, with tears in her eyes, "and I know how well you like money, too; but there's nobody left there.
The neighbors gathered round, and speculated on this production of the deep; whether it were fish or flesh, or a compound of both, commonly yclept a merman. The kind-hearted Teunis Van Gieson, seeing that he wore the human form, took him into his house, and warmed him into life.
Yet before the impulse could stiffen into resolution, it met the neutralizing influence of the old town, which, partly through the military secretary, partly through the scoffing Ludlow, she had unwittingly assimilated. By these teachings she had learned the flattering, almost royal, significance of Mrs. Teunis Van Dam's dinner invitations.
I wondered that Virginia did not say anything; but she kept still because she did not understand where she was, or what I had done with her. Finally, when she spoke it was to say, "Unwrap me, Teunis! I am smothering with the heat!" I laughed a long loud laugh. I guess I was almost hysterical. The change was so sudden, so complete. Virginia was actually complaining of the heat!
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