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But, just a minute " he hesitated "I haven't made any mistake, have I? I understood your steward the feller with the brass buttons, to say that Abijah Warren's children lived here. That's so, ain't it? If not, then I am mistaken." Mrs. Dunn regarded him with indignation. "You are," she said coldly. "The family of the late Mr. Rodgers Warren lives here.
I was so very much bewildered that I merely stared at Beverly Rodgers. Of course, I might have known that Miss Rieppe would not feel the need of announcing to her rich Northern friends an engagement which she had fallen into the habit of postponing. But Beverly had a better right to be taken aback. "I suppose you must have some reason for your remark," he said.
He was made a captain in 1806, and the following year was given command of the Constitution. Upon learning that the war had broken out, Captain Hull left the Chesapeake, with orders to join the squadron under the command of Captain Rodgers at New York. When off Barnegat, New Jersey, he was sighted by the blockading squadron of Captain Philip Bowes Vere Broke, which gave chase.
"Was your brother's name A. Rodgers Warren?" "'A. Rodgers'? No. His name is Abijah Warren, and Wait! His middle name is Rodgers, though. Did 'Bije send you to me?" "A moment, Captain. Was your brother a broker?" "Yes. His office is or used to be on Broad Street. What " "You have not heard from him for some time?" "Not for eighteen years. He and I didn't agree as well as we might.
Now difficulties incident to the divided responsibility of the commission were met with. During the interim between the death of Admiral Davis, in February, 1877, and the coming of Admiral John Rodgers as his successor, a legal question arose as to the power of the commission over its members. The work had to stop until it was settled, and I had to discharge my computers a second time.
His manner and his language were as far removed from those of the late A. Rodgers as the latter's brown stone residence was from this big rambling house, with its deep stairs and narrow halls, its antiquated pictures and hideous, old-fashioned wall paper; as far removed as Miss Baker, whom the captain had hurriedly introduced as "my second cousin keepin' house for me," was from the dignified butler at the mansion on Fifth Avenue.
'Weren't we frightened? But then, you know, how nice it will be to talk of it afterward! "We arrived at a restaurant in the Palais Royal, and found a seat by the window, and a breakfast. We had already finished the latter, and were playing with our fruit, when a party entered who attracted our attention by speaking English. "'One of them is Miss Rodgers, Annie whispered excitedly.
These were modern luxuries he would have taken for granted, had Elisha Warren been the sort of man he expected to find, the country magnate, the leading citizen, fitting brother to the late A. Rodgers Warren, of Fifth Avenue and Wall Street. But the Captain Warren who had driven him to South Denboro in the rain was not that kind of man at all.
"Oh, that is all right," I tried to assure him. "I I hadn't hardly begun, you know." We scoured the bottom successfully with the "Eliza Rodgers," but as we got into deep water there fell a perfect calm.
That's why you try to hedge behind a committee." "It's all off if you fellows don't go at it in a regular way," Dick contended firmly. "We're not going to enter a match and then find that you and Bill Rodgers represent no one but yourselves." "What's all the noise about?" good-naturedly asked Reporter Len Spencer, who, turning the corner, had halted behind Prescott and his friends.
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