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And this they did, for Captain Baker sent three or four sturdy Green Mountain Boys around to the widow's farm every night for a week. But the Yorker and his crew did not appear. At this time, when he might have been of such assistance to them, 'Siah Bolderwood was away.
"Been in the city long?" inquired the New Yorker, getting ready the exact tip against the waiter's coming with large change from the bill. "Me?" said the man from Topaz City. "Four days. Never in Topaz City, was you?" "I!" said the New Yorker. "I was never farther west than Eighth Avenue. I had a brother who died on Ninth, but I met the cortege at Eighth.
When is this binge of yours?" "Three-thirty, which really means four," answered Ricky. "Aren't you going to stay to lunch?" The New Yorker shook his head. "Sorry, I've another engagement. Thanks just the same." "Thank you!" Val waved the note-book as he vanished. "Wonder why he hurried off that way?" "Mad to think that Miss Charity was gone," answered Rod shrewdly.
A boy of Pringle's character is exactly the right person to go in in an emergency like the present one. Two wickets had fallen in two balls, and the fast bowler was swelling visibly with determination to do the hat-trick. But Pringle never went in oppressed by the fear of getting out. He had a serene and boundless confidence in himself. The fast man tried a yorker.
Enoch's mind was burdened with the mystery of Halpen's presence in the Grants at this time, however. Surely the Yorker could not be upon private business. He must have a mission from either the land speculators, the New York authorities, or from those even higher.
Van Brandt came from Grand Rapids. How should I? One never thinks of those little, provincial towns as having any society." "You dear insular, insolent New Yorker." "Well, you may jeer as much as you like, but that's the way one feels. I didn't know that, as Martha says, he was 'formerly born' in Michigan. I just took him for granted, as one does people one meets in our best houses. "Well?"
A young New Yorker had laid such siege to the heart of a certain belle this was back in the Knickerbocker days when people married for love that everybody said the banns were as good as published; but everybody did not know, for one fine morning my lady went to church with another gentleman not her father, though old enough to be and when the two came out they were man and wife.
While a New Yorker meeting a former New Yorker on the desert might have little to tell not already chronicled in the press, a Little Riversite meeting a former Little Riversite in New York had a family budget of news. How high were Jack's hedges? How were the Doge's date-trees? How was this and that person coming on?
By this means she avoided the attentions of the duke, who wanted to marry her; those of the count who also said he wanted to marry her but couldn't because his wife would not consent; those of one New Yorker, who liked her because she was English; and the pallid chatter of the women who bored her with their conjugal cynicisms.
The same night that Maynard came into the inlet a wedding was held on the shore. A number of men and women came up the beach in oxcarts and sledges; others had come in boats from more distant points and across the water. The captain of the New Yorker and Blackbeard went ashore together a little after dark.
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