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Waugh, who had the useful man's disdain of deliberately useless men and the rough man's way of feeling it and showing it, was not slow to act on Howells's license. That very day he found Arthur unconsciously and even patronizingly shirking the tending of a planer so that his teacher, Bud Rollins, had to do double work.
Garnet was wearily turning his head from side to side as if in unspeakable pain; a sudden movement of his free arm caused the mulatto to flinch, but the ex-master said, quietly: "Go on, Cornelius." "Yass. You see, Major, sence dis waugh done put us all on a sawt of equality " The speaker flinched again. "Great Heaven!" groaned the Major.
Waugh, addressing himself to Williams, who was much the youngest of the nine, said, "Go, my dear young brother, and if your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth, let it be with telling poor sinners the love of JESUS CHRIST; and if your arms drop from their shoulders, let it be with knocking at men's hearts to gain admittance for Him there."
He had inherited money, married a half-sister of Commodore Waugh for money, and made money. Year by year, from youth to age, adding thousands to thousands, acres to acres; until now, at the age of ninety-five, he was the master of incalculable riches.
A half-hour later Corporal Galna confided to Private Waugh that Sergeant Gellatly was too damned pretty for the force wondered if they called him Beauty at Fort Desire couldn't call him Pretty Gellatly, for there was Pretty Pierre who had right of possession to that title would like to ask him what soap he used for his complexion 'twasn't this yellow bar-soap of the barracks, which wouldn't lather, he'd bet his ultimate dollar.
"Waugh!" exploded Badger. "You can bank on the whole bunch of us, Frank. That's whatever!" "But what inducement have we to come here?" demanded Bearover. "This is a little dried-up country town, and we couldn't turn out a hundred and fifty people to see that game. We've gut to make expenses somehow."
If our foes discover their mistake, they will turn again, and the contempt which they ought to pour on themselves because of their own cowardice they will heap on our heads, and overwhelm us by their numbers for who can withstand numbers? They will scatter us like small dust before the hurricane. Waugh!"
The campaign of 1914 received most important and highly valued assistance from Dr. Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Suffrage Association; Miss Jane Addams, its vice-president; Mrs. Catharine Waugh McCulloch, Mrs. Ella S. Stewart and Mrs. Florence Bennett Peterson, all of Chicago, and from many others.
He said I was to wait three years and I didn't know what he meant. He must have loved me then and I didn't know it." The sound of her voice surprised her. It came from her whole body; it vibrated like a violin. "How could he love you? You were a child then." "I'm not a child now. You'll have to let him marry me." "I'd rather see you in your coffin. I'd rather see you married to poor Norman Waugh.
Jen's fingers nervously clasped and unclasped, and her eyes were strained towards the door. Sergeant Tom stood watching her pityingly; the old man's head was bowed. The sound of galloping grew plainer. It stopped. An instant and then three horsemen appeared before the door. One was Inspector Jules, one was Private Waugh, and the other between them was let Jen tell who he was.
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