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Updated: June 21, 2025
It's about as lonesome a spot as you could find on the map. Nothing but fields and woods in sight, and a dusty road windin' across the right of way. Not a house to be seen, not even a barn. "You're sure this is Dorr's Crossin', eh?" I asks of the conductor as I hesitates on the step. "Oh, yes," says he, cheerful. "Don't seem to be usin' it much, does he?" says I.
You stays out, an' not only you loses a good chanst to cut off and dam up as vigorous a stream o' profanity as is found between here and Laredo, but you loses a handmade, copper-bound, steel-riveted, artificial limb which in five minutes o' time, says I, windin' up, 'will sure feed the fire. There's the bargint.
She's a good mixer. Besides, if she'd made up her mind to play that new pipe organ you could pretty near bet she'd do it. So inside of three minutes she had us loaded into the car and off we rolls to surprise the Zoscos. Villa Nova, you know, is perched on the top of quite a sizable hill, with a private road windin' up from the Pike.
"Well, `Dearest fadder, git a hold ob her, whateber her name is, an' carry her off body and soul, an' whateber else b'longs to her. Take her to de town ob Anjer an' wait dere for furder orders. Ob course for de windin' up o' de letter you must appeal agin to de state ob your affections, for, as " "Not a bad idea," exclaimed Nigel. "Why, Moses, you're a genius!
"Remembered my master inviting you once, when you were here, to pitch your camp at Rosemary Villa any time you should be after yearning for that quietood essential for literary composition and to windin' up the campaign on your book. So when I saw your luggage " "Exactly." But now ? The situation was changed; yet he felt too exhausted to disavow the servant's conclusion.
What can be ill wi' me, if it be not to gang on leevin' when the noblest young men in the warld the lad that was suckled at my bosom, lies cauld in the clay. Awa wi' ye, Sholto MacKim, and come na back till ye hae rowed every traitor in the same bloody windin' sheet!" The foster mother of the Douglases sank on the ground in the dusk, leaning against the wall of her house.
An' the windin' sheet in the candle means a death for somebody somewhere!" Mary laughed, though her eyes were a little sad and wistful. "Well, of course, there's always somebody dying somewhere, they say!" And she sighed. "There's a good deal of grief in the world that nobody ever sees or hears of." "True enough, Mis' Deane! true enough!" And Mrs.
But the' was so many things to see an' hear all the side-show pictures of Fat Women, an' Livin' Skelitons; an' Wild Women of Madygasker, an' Wild Men of Borneo; an' snakes windin' round women's necks; hand-orgins; fellers that played the 'cordion, an' mouth-pipes, an' drum an' cymbals all to once, an' such like that I fergot all about the time an' the ten-acre lot, an' the stun fence, an' fust I knowed the folks was makin' fer the ticket wagin, an' the band begun to play inside the tent.
"Well, 'Dearest fadder, git a hold ob her, whateber her name is, an' carry her off body and soul, an' whateber else b'longs to her. Take her to de town ob Anjer an' wait dere for furder orders. Ob course for de windin' up o' de letter you must appeal agin to de state ob your affections, for, as " "Not a bad idea," exclaimed Nigel. "Why, Moses, you're a genius!
The sheltered drives and smooth windin' roads wuz gay with passers-by, and the seen wuz beautiful, but I wuz sad and deprested about one thing. King Edward is a real good natered man, and a good pervider, and seems to set store by America. And Queen Alexandra is a sweet, good woman. But still in these last hours I kep' thinkin' of Edwardses' Ma, who was rainin' here durin' my last visit.
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