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So, darling, you and I, having no husbands to trouble us, may also agree very well. Shall we not?" "I cannot speak so lightly on so grave a subject, Mrs. Stillwater," said Cora. Old Mr. Rockharrt came in. "Good morning, Cora! Good morning, Mrs. Stillwater! I hope you feel quite rested from your journey." "Oh, quite, thank you!
It is close upon daybreak. The great wall of pines and hemlocks that keep off the east wind from Stillwater stretches black and indeterminate against the sky. At intervals a dull, metallic sound, like the guttural twang of a violin string, rises from the frog-invested swamp skirting the highway.
I can leave these notes in your hands, if you desire it. When I return from New York" "You are going to New York!" exclaimed Mr. Slocum, with a start. "When?" "This evening." "If you lay a finger on Richard Shackford, you will make the mistake of your life, Mr. Taggett!" "I have other business there. Mr. Shackford will be in Stillwater to-morrow night.
In the present instance it is reluctantly conceded that there are few uglier or more commonplace towns in New England than Stillwater, a straggling, overgrown village, with whose rural aspects are curiously blended something of the grimness and squalor of certain shabby city neighborhoods.
Fabian, now speaking in his natural tone without a shade of anger quite wrong, my dear; there was nothing of the sort. I was never engaged to Mrs. Stillwater." "Then she subsequently refused you. I am telling you what I thought then, not what I think now. I have heard from her own lips that after her husband's death you proposed to her and she refused you." Mr. Fabian shook with silent laughter.
Was there no spot in Stillwater where a broken man could hide himself long enough to collect his senses? With his hands thrust convulsively into the pockets of his sack-coat, Richard turned down a narrow passage-way fringing the rear of some warehouses. As he hurried along aimlessly his fingers encountered something in one of his pockets.
As the day wore on, the excitement deepened in intensity, though the expression of it became nearly reticent. It was noticed that the lamps throughout the village were lighted an hour earlier than usual. A sense of insecurity settled upon Stillwater with the falling twilight, that nameless apprehension which is possibly more trying to the nerves than tangible danger.
Stillwater to accompany the family party to Rockhold for a long visit. The old lady very willingly obeyed these orders, for she also desired the visit from the fascinator, whose presence kept the tyrant in a good humor and on his good behavior. So she pressed Rose Stillwater to accompany them to their mountain home.
On the morning after General Arnold's arrival, when we learned that the reinforcements which had been sent to us at Fort Schuyler were to be marched directly back to the main army then at Stillwater, the Minute Boys held a conference to decide what should be done, for it was in my mind that each member of the company had a right to discuss freely the question that must be settled without delay.
The oldest and most pictorial thing in Stillwater is probably the marble yard, around three sides of which the village may be said to have sprouted up rankly, bearing here and there an industrial blossom in the shape of an iron-mill or a cardigan-jacket manufactory. Slocum's daughter Margaret. Forty years ago every tenth person in Stillwater was either a Shackford or a Slocum.
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