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Oh, there comes father!" she broke off abruptly, looking across the woods. When Major Gilcrest came up to the couple, his conduct fully justified what Abner had been telling Betty. He nodded curtly to the young man, asked Betty where she had been, and appeared little pleased when she told him.
Don' you dar' tech 'em! I'll p'otect 'em wid my life's blood!" "Shut up, you old harridan!" returned Gilcrest. "Nobody's going to strike your mistress, or her daughter either. Take your Miss Jane to her room, and attend to her." "I doan lebe dis room tell I speaks my min' 'bout yo' ongodly carryin' on an' yo' shameful 'buse ob my sweet lamb, my own Miss Betsy."
She stood a second on the threshold, as though paralyzed at the tableau before her. Mrs. Gilcrest leaned back in her chair, moaning and trembling; Betsy crouched by her side, in reality trying to pacify her mother, though apparently seeking shelter from her father, who stood before them with the uplifted whip.
She had extracted a promise from Major Gilcrest that no one in their new home in Kentucky should know that she had been a widow, and in order that this fact of her widowhood might the more easily be concealed, she had induced him to agree that if ever the question arose as to her maiden name, it was to be given as Jane Temple.
"One could not have a better leader than John Adams," Gilcrest stoutly asserted. "Whut!" exclaimed Rogers. "Afteh them Alien an' Sedition outrages?" "Why, man!" Gilcrest retorted, "those very laws were for the saving of the nation." "Though a Democrat, I'm inclined to agree with you there, Mr. Gilcrest," Dudley said. "Ha, Mr.
I have little doubt that this messenger was the 'S. Swartwourt' mentioned in 'B. S.'s' letter; for Swartwourt was in town that Thursday. "You are undoubtedly correct in your surmises," said Gilcrest when Drane had finished.
"I tell you he's a political schemer and traitor, and if he ever dares show his face on my premises again, I'll have him flogged." "Yes, Hiram Gilcrest, I am deceived," Rogers answered slowly, but with rising anger, "an' it's in you, not him. I've stood a heap frum you lately.
As Gilcrest now sat musing with the two documents in his hand, he recalled several points which, had he not been so completely under the influence of the wily lawyer, would have aroused grave suspicions.
He assured her of his unchangeable love, and bade her have courage. He wrote also to Major Gilcrest, stating that although he would not at present seek Betsy or urge his claim in any way, he nevertheless considered that they were pledged to one another, and that he would never give her up unless she herself asked for her release. One day, a month after this, Betsy from her window saw Mr.
"It's not the man, but his doctrine, that I abhor." Thus driven to bay, Abner had no alternative but to reply that from what he could learn by his own study of the Bible, Stone seemed to be right. This was literally throwing down the gauntlet to Gilcrest, and the discussion waxed hot and stormy.
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