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"I'm very glad to meet you, sir. Are you going to spend some time at the Mill?" "I don't know. I have a letter to Mr. Meeker from a friend of mine who hunted with him last year a Mr. Sutler." "Mr. Sutler! Oh, we know him very well. Won't you sit down?" The interior of the house was not only well kept, but presented many evidences of refinement.
He troubles himself little about it, I believe he's meek, meeker than I. He cares less about his children than I about you, Maud; he is selfishly sunk in futurity a feeble visionary. I am not so. I believe it to be a duty to take care of others beside myself.
Meeker did not understand; in fact, he did not trouble his head to conjecture; but it was settled Hiram should be the name, and our hero was baptized accordingly. He was a good boy; never in mischief, never a truant, never disobedient, nor willful, nor irritable, nor obstinate. 'Too good for this world; that is what folks said.
Why couldn't he, at least, be a lawyer, then there might be a chance for him. 'But the boy has no taste for mercantile life, nor for the law, said Mr. Meeker. 'Taste fiddlesticks, responded his wife, 'as if a boy has a right to have any taste contrary to his parents' wish.. 'But, Jane, it is not contrary to my wish. Mrs. Meeker looked her husband steadily in the face.
She didn't want to have a thing to do with him, but he bullied her, same as he did me. June she found out he knew something about me, an' she was afraid to make him mad. I reckon finally he got some kinda promise outa her. He had some business at Meeker, an' he was comin' back to the ranch yestiddy. Then he aimed to bring her here to get married." He was looking steadily at Houck.
The little village of Burnsville, in Connecticut, was thrown into a state of excitement by the report that Hiram Meeker was about to remove to the city of New-York. Two or three elderly maiden ladies with whom Hiram was an especial favorite, declared there was not a word of truth in the ridiculous rumor. The girls of the village very generally discredited it.
That isn't my way, as ye know. I have in mind a sloop-rigged yacht, lying in Shanghai, waiting for a buyer. Pretty little white thing she is, and I can get her for a song, and take enough of this with me to turn the job. "I can play Meeker again, which you chaps don't seem to know.
"I can smell it." "Oh, there'll be fires. That's bound to come." "Where are we going?" she panted. "Right round here the place where I was stayin'. There's a widder woman keeps it, Mrs. Meeker. She's got a horse and cart that'll get you out of this. I guess all the car lines is bust, and I guess we'll have to move out quick. Look!"
I asked father to help me. I made him a solemn promise, which I would have kept, provided he had given me what I required. He refused, and I used his name to raise it. 'O Augustus! Augustus! exclaimed Mrs. Meeker in genuine agony. 'It's no use groaning over it, said the young man. 'It is done; and, what is worse, it is discovered! Father will know it to-night.
I had fallen into the net, and was not to leave it till the scourging had been given. So like that other wandering Christian, I cried out, submitted, and was the meeker for it. I had to wait a little before the ship sailed; I would not stay at El Labarinto, Gabriel's home, for Ottila was there; and though the fever raged at Havana, I felt secure in my hitherto unbroken health.
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