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Upton's poll tax was abated, and the frowns of Divine Providence were doubtless changed to smiles.
Wrenn achieved, "Do you come from New York, Miss Croubel?" and listened to the tale of sleighing-parties in Upton's Grove, Pennsylvania. He was absolutely happy. "This is like getting home," he thought. "And they're classy folks to get home to now that I can tell 'em apart. Gee! Miss Croubel is a peach. And brains golly!"
As these troops were retiring I ordered Russell's reserve division to be put into action, and just as the flank of the enemy's troops in pursuit of Grover was presented, Upton's brigade, led in person by both Russell and Upton, struck it in a charge so vigorous as to drive the Confederates back in turn to their original ground.
I've told you why the other jobs did fail, and it's the truth whether you believe it or not, and at the time I met her the poor child had given up hope and decided to take that last resort." Ben bit his lip. "Back to the farm, Geraldine!" Miss Upton's head again swung from side to side and again she glared at her companion.
Baffled, but not dismayed, the petitioners came to the town meeting held in May, 1785, with a proposition to annex to Fitchburg "about a mile or more in width of land, with the inhabitants thereon, of the northerly part of the town of Westminster," and these additional people were "to join the inhabitants of said Fitchburg to build a meeting-house on Ezra Upton's land."
Upton's little dinner were speedily despatched by the strategic maker of matches, and, to her great delight, were one and all accepted with commendable promptness, as dinner invitations are apt to be. The night came, and with it came also the unsuspecting young doctor and the equally unsuspicious Miss Meeker. Everything was charming.
Whipp stared, but Miss Upton's eyes were twinkling so she suspected this was just one of her jokes. "I never was one to shirk," she declared curtly. "Then I can tell Nellie you want to go?" That word "want" made Charlotte writhe and was probably accountable for the extra acidity of her reply: "Yes, unless you're tongue-tied," she returned.
"I accuse nobody, but I want to say right here and now, and I want everybody to hear me, that I'm going to ferret out the low sneak who put those brads in Bob Upton's shoes. When I do, he leaves this school or I do, and one of us will have reason to remember the drubbing of his life." "They're a fine set, aren't they?" spoke Purtelle.
Miss Mehitable glowered at the bolder and more aggressive of these as she moved along a side aisle. When mother and son finally reached the sunlit out-of-doors they found Miss Upton waiting beside the steps. "Why, if here isn't the fair Mehit," remarked Ben as they approached, and his mother smiled and shook her regal head and Miss Upton's hand simultaneously.
As the plane began to descend and objects below came into view, she wondered for the first time where the great bird was coming to earth. Perhaps Miss Upton's ample and blessed figure would be waiting to greet her. Nothing, nothing was too good to be true. The plane touched earth and flitted along to a standstill.
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