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Worthington turned to Jethro, who was stooping over the bark. "If you come to Brampton, call and see me," he said. "You'll find me at Silas Wheelock's." He got no answer, but apparently expected none, and he started off down the Brampton road in the direction Cynthia had taken. "That makes another," said Jake, significantly, "and Speedy Bates says he never looks at wimmen.
Webster, reminding him of their consultation, inclosing a fee of twenty dollars, and asking him to appear before the committee. Mr. Webster did not come, and Wheelock had to go on as best he could without him. One of Wheelock's friends, Mr. Dunham, wrote a very indignant letter to Mr. Webster on his failure to appear; to which Mr.
His sister Molly was the acknowledged wife of the famous British Indian superintendent, Sir William Johnson. In his youth he had been sent by Johnson to Doctor Wheelock's charity school at Lebanon, Connecticut, where he learned to speak and write English and acquired some knowledge of history and literature.
Worthington turned to Jethro, who was stooping over the bark. "If you come to Brampton, call and see me," he said. "You'll find me at Silas Wheelock's." He got no answer, but apparently expected none, and he started off down the Brampton road in the direction Cynthia had taken. "That makes another," said Jake, significantly, "and Speedy Bates says he never looks at wimmen.
Isaac Worthington came to Coniston not once, but many times, before the snow fell; and afterward, too, in Silas Wheelock's yellow sleigh through the great drifts under the pines, the chestnut Morgan trotting to one side in the tracks. On one of these excursions he fell in with that singular character of a bumpkin who had interested him on his first visit, in coonskin cap and overcoat and mittens.
Twenty salesmen stood behind the counter, and boys were running this way and that with small books in their hands. "How are you, Duncan?" said Jasper. The person addressed was about Jasper Wheelock's age. He had a keen, energetic look and manner, and would be readily singled out as one of the leading clerks. "All right, Wheelock. How are you?" he responded. "Do you want anything in our line?"
The presence of a gentleman of leisure although threatened with consumption became an all-absorbing topic in two villages and three hamlets, and more than one swain, hitherto successful, felt the wind blow colder. But in a fortnight it was known that a petticoat did not make Isaac Worthington even turn his head. Curiosity centred on Silas Wheelock's barn, where Mr.
But a young man of three and twenty, with an independent income of four hundred dollars a year! or any income at all not derived from his own labor was unheard of. It is said that when the stage from over Truro Gap arrived in Brampton Street a hundred eyes gazed at him unseen, from various ambushes, and followed him up the walk to Silas Wheelock's, where he was to board.
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