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"Yes, d n you!" savagely interposed Gale, stepping forward; "he has got just what he deserved; and I wish there were forty more of you in the same predicament. Drag him along in there with the rest of 'em, Redding!" "Ay, ay," responded Patterson, "in with him! And I can tell the rest of them, they had better be saving their pity for themselves, for they will all be in hell before to-morrow night!"
Rough and ready the hospitality indeed was, for the board was not only uncovered but unplaned, and the dishes were cracked and dinted according to their nature; but the heartiness of the welcome, the solidity of the simple viands, the strength of appetite, and, above all, the presence of bright eyes and gentle spirits threw a luxurious halo round the humble apartment, in the light of which Reginald Redding revelled.
"Indeed!" exclaimed McLeod senior, while a peculiar expression crossed his swarthy countenance as if a new idea had hit him; "then, Mr Redding, I am your debtor; but come, let us to supper before it cools. I suppose that no more need be said about the boundary line. I have not been guilty of trespassing, it seems, on your Company's reserves?"
"The star you're the star keeps in the background, and her manager that's me does the hustling." She had every reason for believing this; but as the days passed with no results, sitting about waiting began to get upon her nerves. Mrs. Redding had the remnant of her dead husband's library, and he had been a man of broad taste in literature.
"Indeed! and what is the objection to it that you spoke of?" "That," replied the surveyor, with a mysterious look, "I must, on second thoughts, decline to tell you." "How, then, can you expect me to buy the place?" demanded Redding, in surprise. "Why, because I, a disinterested friend, strongly recommend you to do so. You believe in me.
He used to frighten Sylvia and me into fits, when we were little tots, up here on visits." "Then you knew him before you came to school?" "Oh dear, yes! I know all the Hillsover boys. We used to make mud pies together. They're grown up now, most of 'em, and in college; and when we meet, we're very dignified, and say, 'Miss Redding, and 'Mr. Seccomb, and 'Mr.
It seems that Judge Wilkinson had ordered a coat at the shop of Messrs. Varnum & Redding. The coat was made; the Judge, accompanied by his brother and Mr. Murdough, went to the shop of Varnum & Redding, tried on the coat, and was irritated because, as he believed, it did not fit him. Mr.
That evening, after the wanigan's crew had accomplished a hard afternoon's work pitching camp and drying blankets, the first of the rear drifted in very late after a vain search for camp farther up stream. "For God's sake, Charlie," growled one, "it's a wonder you wouldn't run through to Redding and be done with it."
"But Adeline determined Juan's wedding In her own mind, and that's enough for woman; But then with whom? There was the sage Miss Redding, Miss Raw, Miss Flaw, Miss Showman and Miss Knowman, And the two fair co-heiresses Giltbedding. She deem'd his merits something more than common. All these were unobjectionable matches, And might go on, it well wound up, like watches."
Even as far away as Redding, a good eight miles distant, where you leave the Boston train, Eden's prerogative is known and respected.
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