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The quiet assurance of this self-announced chieftain carried conviction that made argument idle and above all else the Thorntons needed an unchallengeable leader. "Afore God," he murmured, "I believes ye're a man!" Then after a pause he added: "But nobody don't know ye well enough an' afore a man kin be trusted ter give orders he's got ter prove hisself." Parish Thornton laughed.
Hit lasted nigh on ter two days." "What war ther upcome of ther matter?" inquired the householder, and the narrator went on: "Ther Harpers an' Thorntons went inside ther co'te house an' made a pint-blank fort outen hit, an' ther Rowletts tuck up thar stand in ther stores an' streets. They frayed on, thet fashion, twell ther Doanes wearied of hit an' sot ther co'te house afire.
She was a summer widow with three children, a thoroughly well-bred woman of the sort Milly instinctively took to and attracted. They became friends rapidly through the children, whom Milly petted. She learned all about the Thorntons in a few days. They were very nice people.
The two Thorntons, father and son, William Wilberforce, Lord Dartmouth, Lord Teignmouth and others, who regularly or occasionally attended the ministry of John Venn, the worthy Rector of Clapham, were called in derision, 'the Clapham sect. The phrase implies a sort of reproach which was not deserved. These good men had no desire to form a sect.
"I reckon we parts company hyar," he said, "but I feels like we've done accomplished a right good day's work. Termorrow Hump an' me'll fare over ter yore house and git yore answer." "I'm obleeged," responded the new chief of the Thorntons, but when he was left alone he did not ride on to the house in the river bend.
"I kin remember when ther boys went off ter ther war of Twelve ... I kin remember thet.... Thar war Doanes an' Rowletts an' Thorntons...." "I hain't askin' ye erbout no Doanes ner Thorntons. I'm askin' ye war thar any Maggards?" For a long time the human repository of ancient history pondered, fumbling through the past.
With Caleb dead an' gone, no man kin handily foretell what ther Thorntons aims ter do an' without we knows we kain't breathe free." "Why does ye come ter me?" "Because folks tells hit thet ther old man named ye ter stand in his stead an' ef ye does thet we hev need ter put some questions up ter ye." "I hain't said I sought no leadership but speak right out fer yoreselves," invited Maggard.
"I say, if I am permitted to separate Miss Russell and the Thorntons from about three hundred acres of their land, I shall certainly wish to know its total content of phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, and calcium, before I make any purchase; and, if you will remember the pot cultures and the peaty swamp land, I think you'd agree with me.
That postmark contained a date only one week old. Nan was the last child to whom Annie felt she could confide her guilty secret. "Oh, dear, dear," she murmured under her breath, "what a true saying it is, that 'the way of transgressors is hard. I am a mean, low sort, not a doubt of that. Why, if the Lorrimers and Thorntons really knew me as I am, they wouldn't speak to me.
Aaron Capper, who was as narrow yet as religious as an Inquisition priest, had always believed the Thorntons to be God's chosen and the Doanes to be children of Satan. The bonds of enforced peace had galled him heavily. Three sons had been killed in the battle at Claytown and he felt that any truce made before he had evened his score left him wronged and abandoned by his kinsmen.
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