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Then the restlessness would come on again. Presently he took to looking at his watch. Then he would snap it to, and go to work again, with a great determination in his face, only to look at the watch again before long. Finally he touched his bell. "Jenifer," he said, "I wish you would rub off my spurs, and clean up my riding trousers." "For lohd, sar, I done dat dis day yesserday."
"Jenifer Keast, maybe?" pursued his mother. "Happen Jenifer, happen another. A maid's a maid," mumbled the disconcerted Archelaus. Tom put his boots on the settle and stood up. "It makes me sick to hear you, Archelaus," he declared slowly, but with extraordinary venom for a boy of fifteen; "Jenifer Keast! Have you no sense of who you are that you should think of Jenifer Keast?"
It came from something I heard my father saying; and as he strongly disapproves of women taking part in politics it was no use saying anything to him." "Oh, politics?" That explanation rather surprised him. "Sometimes just now and then," explained Sister Jenifer, "politics do touch social needs: and to their detriment."
"Who are those?" inquired Max. "Women Chartists," said Sister Jenifer. "What are they doing here?" "They go wherever they can get a hearing." Max stopped to listen a little satirically; he had never heard a woman speaking in public before. Presently he turned to his guide and found that her eye was on him. "Shall we go on?" he said. "This does not interest you, then?"
To himself, Jenifer remarked: "Who he gwine hab dis day? He neber so anxious befoh, not even when de Presidint an Guv'nor Pohter dey dun dine hyah." Peter went to his room and, after a due course of clubbing and tubbing, dressed himself with the utmost care. Truth compels the confession that he looked in his glass for some minutes.
Among the friends of the deceased present were Senators Sherman and Hoar, Justice Harlan of the Supreme Court, Miss Susan B. Anthony, and Miss May Wright Sewall, president of the Women's National Council. The temporary pall-bearers were ex-Senator B. K. Bruce and other prominent colored men of Washington. The sermon was preached by Rev. J. G. Jenifer.
E. P. Alexander is here, Jimmy Hill, Alston, Jenifer, etc., and I hear that my old colonel, A. S. Johnston, is crossing the plains from California.... "As ever, R. E. Lee." I again quote from a letter to my mother, dated Richmond, July 12, 1861: "...I am very anxious to get into the field, but am detained by matters beyond my control.
We are not much in haste down here after six, because it's so still and quiet. The hurry's gone up-town to the social slaves. Suppose you stay and try his skill at lunch to-day? My partners generally are with me, and Jenifer always has something good for them." "By all means," said Watts. But Leonore said: "No. We mustn't make a nuisance of ourselves the first time we come."
And Jenifer proved to be right, for in Maryland the Federalists obtained control of the convention and, by a vote of 63 to 11, ratified the Constitution on the 26th of April. In South Carolina, which was the Southern State next in importance to Virginia, the compromise on the slave trade proved to be one of the deciding factors in determining public opinion.
Now, there happened to be Captain Jenifer by, who commanded the Lily in this business, and thus says that, finding the Dutch not so many as they expected, they did not know but that there were more of them above, and so were not so earnest to the setting upon these; that they did do what they could to make the fire-ships fall in among the enemy; and, for their lives, neither Sir J. Jordan nor others could, by shooting several times at them, make them go in; and it seems they were commanded by some idle fellows, such as they could of a sudden gather up at Harwich; which is a sad consideration that, at such a time as this, where the saving the reputation of the whole nation lay at stake, and after so long a war, the King had not credit to gather a few able men to command these vessels.
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