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Updated: May 27, 2025
"It's real mean of your brother to keep his lovely garden shut up all through the spring," the Marchesa Lorenzoni had said once to Jean, and he had replied, "Well, it is his." That seemed final, but the present Marchesa and late relict of Jonas P. Whittaker of Pittsburg was not so easily put off.
Whittaker feared their death, they were forcibly fed and taken immediately to the jail in Washington. Of the experience Mrs. Lewis wrote: I was seized and laid on my back, where five people held me, a young colored woman leaping upon my knees, which seemed to break under the weight. Dr. Gannon then forced the tube through my lips and down my throat, I gasping and suffocating with the agony of it.
Tomorrow was the day, and it was some place where high tide was at 10.17. 'They may have gone tonight, someone said. 'Not they. They have their own snug secret way, and they won't be hurried. I know Germans, and they are mad about working to a plan. Whittaker brightened up. 'It's a chance, he said. 'Let's go over to the Admiralty.
"Cap'n Whittaker," repeated the teacher, "I'm very glad that you called. I've been rather expecting you might, because of certain things I have heard." "You heard? What was it you heard if you don't mind my askin'?" "No, I don't, because I think we must have an understanding about Emily. I have heard that you allow her to do as she pleases at home; in other words, that you are spoiling her, and "
Whittaker had been an inventor, making one of the first practical breech-loading guns, and the original Rainey had been a dry-goods merchant in an Illinois town who backed the inventor. It proved itself a rare combination.
I occasionally took a turn at the oars to relieve some tired man, and about midnight we reached Shell Mound, where General Whittaker, of Kentucky, furnished us a new and good crew, with which we reached Bridgeport by daylight.
Bangs, "so that 'll be the end of the old Whittaker place, hey? Sho! things change in a feller's lifetime, don't they? You and me can remember, Ase, when Cap'n Cy Whittaker was one of the biggest men we had in this town. So was his dad afore him, the Cap'n Cy that built the house. I wonder the looks of things here now don't bring them two up out of their graves.
"Aye, I bowt her for sixpence afore I wed her," he said, looking them steadily in the face, "an' t' man that selled her to me said I'd gotten her muck-cheap. Them was t' truest words he iver spak, an' shoo would hae been muck-cheap if I'd gien a million pund for her." During all the years that Mary Whittaker had spent at Holmton she had not once caught sight of Samuel Learoyd.
A new chisel, lying upon the earthen floor, became a bar of yellow light. Slim's eyes went to the anvil and clung there in a widening stare. His hands, white and soft when his gloves were off, drew up convulsively into fighting fists, and as he stood looking, the cords swelled and stood out upon his thick neck. For years he had hated Dunk Whittaker
Of course you realize that this ship of ours," indicating the house by a comprehensive wave of his hand around the room, "is goin' to be a mighty unpopular craft from now on. We may be on a lee shore any minute. You've got your own well-bein' to think of." "My own well-bein'! What do you s'pose I care for my well-bein' when there's Cap'n Whittaker, you tell me now! Is it so?" "Some of it is yes.
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