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As for Pauline, of course she had not Wilbur's talent and could not, perhaps, be expected to shine conspicuously, but surely she might make more of herself if only she would cease to spend so much time in details and cogitation, with nothing tangible to show for her labor.
"You kind of look after them when they're young," Wilbur's companion suggested, "that we can use them when the time is ripe." "That is just it," said Wilbur.
The rocks were clearly of the kind in the mine. Suddenly Scotty bent lower and began to pry at something. "Rick, there's something buried here." Rick hurried to help out, and in a moment they had lifted away enough rocks to disclose a considerable amount of moldy cloth. Scotty took a piece and shook it, then chuckled. "The answer is in the writing on the bag. Wilbur's Premium Portland Cement."
Sylvester was always in poor circumstances; and I believe that Wilbur's hog came along the road by night and that Rufus was tempted to make way with it privately and to conceal all traces of the theft. "In spite of the words on the head of the barrel, Mr. Wilbur was in some doubt what to do with the pork and asked my advice. I told him that if I were in his place I should keep it and say nothing.
Always restless and impatient of confinement, John Jr. had come out for a moment upon the platform, ostensibly to take the air, but really to see if it were possible to get a glimpse of Nellie. She was sitting not far from the door, and he looked in, just in time to witness Mr. Wilbur's action, which he of course construed just as his jealousy dictated. "Confounded fool!" thought he.
In this here country you can't ever get away from the woods-dweller, whether he's backwoodsman or Forester, or whatever you call him the man who can depend on himself an' live his life wherever there's sky overhead an' ground underfoot an' trees between. "They're the discoverers of America, too. Oh, yes, they are," he continued, noting Wilbur's look of contradiction.
What would you advise?" A smile illumined Mr. Landor's usually grave countenance at Miss Wilbur's earnestness. "It is a thrifty-looking little shop," he said; "Charlotte pointed it out to me. And I should say, Miss Virginia, that you are perfectly safe in following your own instincts in the matter.
On board, the two watches mingled forward, smoking opium and playing a game that looked like checkers. Three of them were washing down the decks with kaiar brooms. For the first time since he had come on board Wilbur heard the sound of their voices. The evening was magnificent. Never to Wilbur's eyes had the Pacific appeared so vast, so radiant, so divinely beautiful.
So it happened that, when Selma asked him once more why he did not follow the advice proffered and buy some stocks, he replied by smiling at Gregory and inquiring what he should buy. During the dinner, which had been pleasant, Wilbur's eye had been attracted by the brilliancy of some new jewels which Mrs.
They lost no time in doing that. The drama of each drew to a splendid climax with the arrival in Newbern of a French officer probably a general bound upon a grave mission. Wilbur's general came to seek out the wife of Lyman Teaford. To her he said in choice English: "Madame, I bring you sad news.
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