whitermore

Updated: June 8, 2025

Meanwhile, close to the speaker's stand sat the Honorable Jonas Whitermore himself, for the most part grim and motionless, though I thought I detected once or twice a repetition of the half-troubled, half-questioning glances directed toward his wife that I had seen before. Perhaps it was because I was watching him so closely that I saw the sudden change come to his face.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years

From end to end the village was aflame with bunting and astir with excitement, so that even I, merely a weary sojourner in the place, felt the thrill and tingled pleasantly. When the Honorable Jonas Whitermore entered the tent at two o'clock that afternoon I had a good view of him, for my seat was next the broad aisle.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years

There was a moment's breathless hush, then to the canvas roof there rose a mighty cheer and a thunderous clapping of hands as by common impulse the entire audience leaped to its feet. For one moment only did I catch a glimpse of Mrs. Jonas Whitermore, blushing, laughing, and wiping teary eyes in which the wondrous glow still lingered; then the eager crowd swept down the aisle toward her.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years

Mine were left strong and painless for my work. What mattered her wakefulness if I slept? What mattered her weariness if I was rested? What mattered her disappointments if my aims were accomplished? Nothing!" The Honorable Jonas Whitermore paused for breath, and I caught mine and held it.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years

I realized that, the minute I looked at her and saw her drawn face and her frightened, staring eyes fixed on her husband up there on the platform her husband, who was going to tell all these people about some wonderful woman whom even she had never heard of before, but who had been the making of him, it seemed. "<i>My</i> will-power?" the Honorable Jonas Whitermore was saying then.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years

It wa'n't long, too, before the big folks <i>there</i> begun to take notice, and Mr. Whitermore would come home all excited and tell about what was said to him and what fine things he was bein' asked to do. He said 'twas goin' to mean everythin' to his career.

Eleanor H. (Eleanor Hodgman) Porter - Across the Years