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Thorold turned on me again a wonderfully gentle look, for a gay fiery young Vermonter, as I knew him to be. "It wanted only that!" he said. "And the orders, Miss Randolph what 'orders' are you expecting? You said, orders." "Orders may be given by a sign," I said. "They need not be in words." He smiled. "I see, you have studied the subject."
He is a Vermonter, a graduate of Yale College, who has been here several years, and has established a sort of book brokerage, buying libraries for those who want them, and rare works and editions for American collectors. His business naturally brings him into relations with literary people; and he is himself a kindly and pleasant man. On our arrival we found Mr.
A tall, thin man in faded blue, with a straggling beard on his face and a rifle in his hand, came forward among the trees. "What do you want, Johnny Reb?" he asked in high and thin but friendly tones. "Nothing that will cost you anything, Old Vermont," replied Talbot. "Wall, spit it out," said the Vermonter. "If I'd been born in your State I'd commit suicide if anybody found it out.
He wondered if she hadn't exaggerated all that. But she gave such definite details. Perhaps Mr. Crittenden knew something about that problem. Perhaps he had an idea about that, too, that might be of help. He would ask him. June 10. Marise bent to kiss the soft withered cheek. "Elly is a real Vermonter, but I'm not.
And yet it seemed to give him a keen pleasure to call his hearers "Black Republicans." "Not black," came from the crowd again and again, and once a man: shouted, "Couldn't you modify it and call it brown?" "Not a whit!" cried the Judge, and dubbed them "Yankees," although himself a Vermonter by birth. He implied that most of these Black Republicans desired negro wives.
Carker listened with a show of interest until the Vermonter had finished. "Well, I'm glad he's doing some good," said Greg. "Still, this is of minor importance compared with the great work in which I'm engaged." "You go to grass!" almost snarled Ephraim. "Great fiddlesticks! Why, Frank is making real men of growing boys.
With string and nail in his pocket, I would defy the horses of Phoebus to get away from a Yankee, or his chariot to get out of gear; and if Phaeton had only been a Vermonter, the deserts of Ethiopia might to this day have been covered with roses instead of sand.
"'I know a man who would take that contract and perform it, I replied. 'I would be willing to put you into communication with him, so that you might form your own opinion about him. "By the President's direction I requested John Bradley, a well-known Vermonter, to come to Washington. He was at my office the morning after I sent the telegram to him.
"Come forth instantly, or I will sacrifice the whole garrison," thundered Allen, at the door; and poor Delaplace, half awake, started up with his breeches in his hand and wanted to know what was the matter. "Deliver to me this fort instantly!" "By what authority?" inquired the stupefied commander. The Vermonter was never at a loss either for a word or a blow.
This man, thoroughly respectable, of good repute, hospitable, comfortable in every way so far as I could see, lived, and lived well, on twenty or thirty acres of lava, of which not even a Vermonter would have given ten cents for a thousand acres; and which was worthless to any one except a native Hawaiian. Take next the grazing lands.
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