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Updated: June 18, 2025
"That's easily explained," said the scout who had dashed upon the public square. "They are looking for a large body of reinforcements from the south, and Mayo knows what to expect if he should run, panic-stricken, into them. His only hope was in making a stand." "Where is Perdue?" the Major asked, looking about, from one tree to another. "He fell back yonder in the field," old Gid answered.
Campbell, and Mie Mie, and who besides I have not yet asked. I was in bed when she came; it was an heure perdue, but not lost upon me, for I was not asleep, nor could sleep till I heard that those two girls were come home safe. From what, in the name of God? you will say. From seeing that etourdi Lord Barrymore play the fool in three or four different characters upon our Richmond Theatre.
During this conversation Pritchen was thinking hard. When the laugh which followed the saloon-keeper's retort had subsided, he turned to him and said: "Jim, I'll take your bet." "What, to stop the bell, and to bring the Injuns here fer a drink?" "Yes, but only for to-morrow night, remember." "Oh, that'll do," replied Perdue. "I'll do the rest." The next day Pritchen was unusually busy.
For a time, it is true, she was content to lie perdue, entertaining her friends at her house in Prince Michael Street, driving through the streets of her capital behind her pair of white ponies, or walking with her pet goat for companion, greeted everywhere with respect and affection.
Most of them said nothing, but sat or stood watching the river flowing sullenly by. A few, however, broke into loud complaints. Of these Perdue, the saloon-keeper, was the most incessant in his lamentations. "Only think," he wailed, "I've lost everything, saved nothing. My supplies and money are all gone."
It was for street and crowd work; and the engine lurking perdue in a coat pocket, might readily sally out to execution, and so, by clearing a great hall, or piazza or so, carry an election by a choice of polling called knocking down.
During the summer months, indeed, in the early part of his life, he was, if we may credit him, generally lying perdue in the woodland or mountain recesses near the habitation of his mistress, before or after her marriage, awaiting her secret visits, made whenever she could escape the vigilance of her parents, or the watchful of her husband, and during her absence he had nothing better to do than to observe objects of nature and describe them.
Refer to her again as you did lately, and you'll see how interested I am." The tone in Keith's voice warned Pritchen and the rest that the less said about the matter the better, so an awkward pause ensued. Perdue was the first to speak. "Let's search the mission house now," he suggested, "and leave the Radhurst cabin till the last."
He was not overgrown, not awkward, but lithe, and I knew that he loved her and that his own emotion had frightened him. Perdue lived but a short distance beyond the General's place, and soon we were there, talking to the old fellow out at the fence.
I heard from another tenant last night that he is dead." "Perdue," said Charley, "I wish you would go down there to-day and find out what each tenant in that house will sell his lease for and give possession immediately. Give them a note to Johnston stating the amount, and I want Johnston to give them something over the amount agreed on. I must be on good terms with Huckleberry Street."
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