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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Take care of your mistress there in that chair. Can't you see she's coming out of her faint? If the cook is among you, he'd better get back to the kitchen and prepare breakfast. Watson, you take this revolver here," fishing a six-shooter out of his pocket and handing it to me, "go to the rear entrance of the castle, and stand guard there till those tortoise-like constables arrive.
He was also a friend of McClellan, and if anybody could rouse that tortoise-like general, Stanton might be supposed to be the man. He had been a valiant Democrat, and Democratic support was needed by the government. Lincoln astonished him with his appointment as Secretary of War in January, 1862.
Mrs. Poppit began to move quietly away with the deliberate, tortoise-like progression necessitated by the fur coat. It struck Miss Mapp that she, too, had intended to take part in the general breaking up of the group, but had merely been unable to get under way as fast as the others. "Such a lovely fur coat," said Miss Mapp sycophantically. "Such beautiful long fur!
"Or, if you haven't seen one, it's only because you've seen two!" The form of the challenge seemed to strike our host. He shot his head out of the mist with a queer tortoise-like motion he sometimes had, and blinked approvingly at Frenham. "Yes," he suddenly flung at us on a shrill jerk of laughter; "it's only because I've seen two!"
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