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my latin lesson and read to line by line or or as the book might be and had her render it into english almost as t as i read indeed i have even seen read to her as she sat in the old rocking chair after one of her with her eyes and her head in and and she would turn it into not only proper english but english with a gl...	46
no he would never have run away i mean and i suddenly ran up the a few steps before them and out my big pistol pointed it at them and told them that if they came one step higher i would certainly pull the i could not say i would shoot for it was not loaded well do you know they stopped they stopped dead still i declar...	46
had somehow got twisted around and was perched right over my left ear making me look a perfect fright he told me his name but i have forgotten it of course but he was such a gentleman and to think of his being a yankee i told him i hated all and he just laughed and did not mind my stick nor old umbrella nor bundles a b...	46
seeing sick old or poor people in the pines no matter how bad the weather was nor how deep the roads she would go around to see some old or uncle in their out of the way or somebody s sick child i have met her on old fashion in the rain toiling along in roads that were knee deep to get the doctor to come to see some si...	46
i think old maids cannot be very acceptable women he they are sometimes very useful the doctor was a rather enlightened man some of her relatives got there in time for the funeral and a good many of the poor people came and she was carried in a little old spring wagon drawn by fashion through the snow to the old home p...	46
suddenly up to me as a soldier the relation he never wholly lost to me afterward though i knew him for many many years of peace his gray coat with the red facing and the bars on the collar his military cap his gray flannel shirt it was the first time i ever saw him wear anything but linen his high boots his horse wit...	46
very long before the burial of the guns they came to know the stuff that was in him he had not been in service a year before he had had four horses shot under him and when later on he was offered the command of a the old company to be one of his and still remained under his command before the first year was out the bat...	46
had in come down across the to take and the old battery had found a hill top in the line in which lee s army lay stretched across the wilderness country to stop him the day though early in may was a hot one and the old battery like most others had suffered fearfully two of the guns had had wheels cut down by shells and...	46
and in the mud the men the burial of the guns would spring once more to the mud wheels and the slow ascent would begin again the orders to the colonel as has been said were brief to hold the pass until he received further instructions and not to lose his guns to be ordered with him was to obey the last streak of twilig...	46
went for their when the sound of below broke on the quiet air they were on their feet in an instant and at the guns crowding upon the to look or to listen for the road as far as could be seen down the mountain was empty except for their own and lay as quiet as if sleeping in the air and yet after of came rolling up the...	46
audible tone but the colonel had not answered a word perhaps none was expected suddenly he took his glass down and gave an order to the lieutenant take two men and meet the burial of the guns them at the turn yonder learn their business and act as your best judgment if necessary to bring the messenger farther bring onl...	46
with an effort began to speak his voice had a somewhat sound as if it were restrained but it was otherwise the ordinary tone of command it was not much that he said simply that it had become his duty to them with the information which he had received that general lee had surrendered two days before at court house yield...	46
last charge too and we d like to fire em off once more for old times sake to remember em by if you don t think no harm could come of it the colonel reflected a moment and said it might be done they might fire each gun separately as they rolled it over or might get all ready and fire together and then roll them over whi...	46
could scarcely so that i was surprised to hear what he said about the war he was talking to who evidently had been in the army himself but on the other side a gentleman with the loyal button in his coat and with a beautiful a cut across his face he was telling of a charge in some battle or in which he declared his com...	46
thin figure he walked with that exaggerated which told his state as plainly as if he had pronounced it in words he had evidently been there before and more than once the justice nodded to him familiarly here again he asked in a tone part part regret yes your honor met an old soldier last night and took a drop for good ...	46
he was a terror so the police said and his resources of were he possessed in the gray jacket of no this particular department an eloquence which was incredible his was vast infinite he told me once that he could not explain it that when he was sober he and never uttered an oath when he was in liquor his brain took this...	46
which he always insisted on giving that evening i saw him being dragged along by loi the gray jacket of no three and he was cursing like a demon in the course of time he got so low that he spent much more than half his time in jail he became a perfect vagabond and with his clothes ragged and dirty might be seen about o...	46
part with it i m all right now i mean to be buried in it i had never remarked before what a refined face he had his enthusiasm made him look younger than i had ever seen him i saw him on the day before the eve of the he was as busy as a bee and looked almost handsome the boys are coming in by every train he said look h...	46
yell men and women and children joined in it it began at the first sight of the regular column swelled up the crowded streets rose to the thronged ran along them for squares like a and then came rolling back in volume only to rise and swell again greater than before men wept children women sobbed aloud what was it only...	46
was sent for to see about him he was worse than i had ever known him he was half naked and little better than a madman i went to a doctor about him an old army surgeon who saw him and shook his head a very bad only a question of time he said this was true no was beyond hope the gray jacket of no m i ...	46
at least two years to pay for them and he might have laid up the money and got a start or as some charitable persons said it might have been given to the poor however the monuments were miss danger lie s roses put up and on them were which recorded at length the virtues of those to whom they were erected with their de...	46
his money went and so did the little cousin who was named after her and who was at school he had a letter from her in his pocket at that moment so he drifted on at length one evening he was at a reception in a strange city whither his business had taken him the rooms were filled with light and beauty was standing with ...	46
which had been devoted for the occasion as a dressing room it was quite full at the time a man a large fellow with sleek short hair a fat chin and a dazzling waistcoat pulled open a lower drawer in a articles of a lady s apparel miss s roses were discovered and neatly arranged shut that drawer instantly said in a low i...	46
as he began to read then the smile died away and a startled look took its place the color faded out of his face and his mouth closed firmly when he was through he turned back and read the letter all miss s over again slowly it seemed hard to understand for after a pause he read it over a third time then he looked strai...	46
em all for her if that would have done any good but it wouldn t i didn t have any right to get mad with em for loving her and if i had got into a row she d have sent me off in a but just then the war came on and it was a to me i went in first thing i made up my mind to go in and fight like five thousand and i thought m...	46
claim you when you are dead we ain t going to let em have you then we re going to put you to sleep in old virginia the old fellow was much affected and made them a little speech he introduced us to them all he said gentlemen these are my boys my neighbors and family and then boys these are my friends i don t know all t...	46
their little among their pines or down on the edges of the district distinct both from the gentlemen on their old and from the sturdy farmer folk who owned the smaller places what title they had to little their lands originally or how they traced it back or where they had come from no one knew they had been there from ...	46
book he took it and looked at it as if it were something that might he was not an apt scholar perhaps he had begun too late perhaps there was some other cause but though he could swim better climb better and rim faster than any boy in the school or for that matter in the county and knew the habits of every bird that fl...	46
the stump in the district and mrs was kept in game if not in meal the dilated on his and grown to be a slender slip of a girl with very bright eyes and a little nose was against him in public though said she had of her youngest brother and his jaws for something she had said of him the mills s enmity was well understoo...	46
time but now it was it came in the presence of mr himself who had come the night before and was by the governor to raise a company there were a number of people there quite a crowd for the little cross roads for the stir had been growing day by day and excitement and anxiety were on the increase the papers had been f...	46
in without his look changing even faintly in her gay dress came out and passed down the alone without his expression changing it was perhaps fifteen minutes later that he seemed to awake and after a look over his shoulder stepped from ihe door into the yard his mother was cooking and he strolled down the path across th...	46
parcel up again little as nearly like what it had been before as he could and determined to give it to one of the mills boys when he reached the cross roads he his jacket and put it into the little inner pocket and then it carefully stepped out again more briskly than before it was perhaps an hour later that the mills ...	46
mother caught the spirit and a moment later declared with a new tone in her voice that that was better than mrs and still they were better off than she for they still had two left to help each other while she had not a soul i ll care o us all repeated the girl once more it was only a few things that mills took with him...	46
which had been going on with spirit was suddenly checked by a fire which swept the top of a slope along the crest of which ran a road a little raised between two deep by the remains of heavy fences the after a gallant and hopeless charge were ordered to lie down in the ditch behind the and were sheltered from the leade...	46
never entered her mother as has been said sometimes went across the bottom and now and then took with her a hare or a bird or a string of fish on condition from that it little should not be known she had caught them but never went and mrs mills found herself sometimes put to it to explain to others her the best she co...	46
up to the group of rocks behind which he lay were both in plain view and any man would be who attempted to cross it a bit of woods reached some distance up on one side but not far enough to give a shot at one behind the rock and though the ground in that direction dipped a little there was one little ridge in full view...	46
mother and said she had come to ad s funeral though she could not walk much now and had never been over to their side since the day after he had but her father had told her as how he had killed the man as shot ad and so she made out to come that far then the letter broke off from giving news and as if under stress of...	46
woman revived under it however and her eyes had a brighter light in them was too much engrossed in taking care of his mother that day to have any thought of any one else he was used to a soldier s scant fare but had never quite taken in the fact that his mother and the women at home had less even than they in the field...	46
the other side of the swamp through the water as if he were on dry land she could not have made him hear if she had wished it for on a sudden a great rushing wind swept through the pines bending them down like grass and blowing the water in the bottom into white waves and the thunder which had been in the distance sudd...	46
commander pressed forward and began to question her she forgot her own terror in fear for her cause she had all her wits about her instantly and under a pretence of repeating what she had already told the first men she gave them such a mixture of descriptions that the negro was called up to it she made out that they we...	46
then galloped away in the darkness and several rounds from pistols were fired toward him whilst something went on on the ground before he could finish however the men i t little had turned around and were out of sight in a minute climbed over the and strode up the road after them he paused where the man he had shot ha...	46
red spots burning in his thin cheeks and on as before now and then answering a question but for the most part silent he must have thought of his mother old and by herself in her cabin but she would not live long and of some she had called him a as the other women had done a verse from the testament she gave him may hav...	46
the were kept clean except for useful the furniture was old and plain mahogany and and black with age and polished till they shone like the guns kept j in old virginia hung with white as snow straight backed chairs generations old with common new ones long with feet old filled much read books shining tables with slen...	46
motion busy over their little matters with that ceaseless energy of boyhood which could move the world could it but be concentrated and they were all over the place in the orchard birds nests getting into wild excitement over which they murdered because they called in spring and summer fishing or washing in the creek r...	46
her she calmly took the lead and by her instinctive dignity her wisdom and her force them all as naturally as the full moon in heaven the stars such in part was the mistress as social life to the master himself it is hard to yet there were indeed certain characteristics whether he was grave and severe or jovial and eas...	46
frames charged like at so these same languid young gentlemen when the occasion came suddenly appeared as the most dashing and of modern times it was the company known as the that was in a single day but whatever may be thought of the sons there can be no question as to the daughters they were like the mother j made in ...	46
the zealous faithful and efficient assistant of the mistress in all that to the care and training of the children her authority was recognized in all that related to them directly or indirectly second only to that of the mistress and master she tended them regulated them them having authority indeed in cases to adminis...	46
lead the dogs all day and end by losing them as evening fell after taking them a dead stretch for thirty miles the capture of a gray was what men boasted of a chase after an old red was what they about some old became historical characters and were as well known and as much discussed in the they inhabited as the leader...	46
not as gossip but as affairs of common interest which every one knew or was expected and entitled to know among the ladies the fashions came in of course embracing particularly patterns politics took the place of honor among the gentlemen their range embracing not only state and national politics but british as well as...	46
of the cook s art who about with glistening faces dressing the church in old virginia and shining teeth proud of their elevation and eager to prove their merits and add to the general cheer it was now christmas eve from time to time the hired out servants came home from or other places where they had been hired or had ...	46
gilded my little room and my quiet office and was back in the past among the overgrown fence rows and fields of my home it was then that i met the old gentleman of the black stock for the first time and he spoke to me of course then i spoke to him i was ready to speak to any one would have spoken to any one in the worl...	46
and as i fell into city ways i began to visit more and more until i became quite as much of a city man and indeed of a society man as a still very modest income coupled with some ambition to increase it would allow yet i never met my old gentleman of the black lo the old gentleman stock in any of the bright houses i vi...	46
just given up my search in despair and was returning to my office when i passed a s window i happened to glance in and there were my clustered together in front of a large mirror my especial one in the midst of the group with a great broad straw hat covered with roses on top of her little brown head her fresh face maki...	46
a carriage like that and take one out of it even at random you can hardly go amiss had said my old gentleman of the black stock and i believed him i could not resist the temptation to go up and render my first act of assistance to the family i signed to the driver and he stopped the old gentleman you are looking for yo...	46
of the books sending them without change of marked passages and with a note which i considered quite to a girl whom i did know still no serious results came from any of this and i applied myself somewhat more faithfully to what i called my practice and never wholly forgot the old hill and carriage with the pretty faces...	46
sorrow not shame his eye was melancholy but it was calm and his gaze direct and his voice which as much as either the face or the the old gentleman eye tells the true history that lies deep and within was grave and sad but bore the unmistakable ring of sincerity and command so unwilling to leave one who was somewhat li...	46
feature and admitted you to the ample hall which ran entirely through the house to the back door and a long back beyond it a sufficiently wide to suggest in the rooms above led on one side of the hall to the upper floor the front door was not only equipped with a of the black stock bell which when i pulled the handle f...	46
trying to say what we think our neighbor thinks it does not seem to me now recalling it that what he said was remarkable or even altogether sound but there was something about his manner in saying it which impressed me he appeared to be in strong opposition to the rest of the world to hold a correct position but to hav...	46
a top with accuracy or could whip it high in air and bring it down whirling like a saw or i would be held up on the and compelled against my strongest to jump a rope held by two of a group of little creatures who would shout with laughter as they knocked my hat off in the dirt threw sand into my eyes and pursued me dow...	46
ever since the birth of her last infant and then her mother s death just after hill and was sold told greatly on her so she does not get to see me as often as she did when she first came to live here last spring i must go and see her said my friend softly i will try and get there to morrow i would have been before but ...	46
gathered around some object in the middle of the street they were shouting with laughter and my curiosity prompted me to go and look to see what amused them i found it to be a very small and exceedingly dirty lit of the black stock tie boy who certainly presented an amusing enough spectacle he was so little that it was...	46
above me though it was still far below the large and practice which was to be my stepping stone to the chief it was only as a beautiful being whose mere of the black stock smile was more than all other rewards and all that i dared to i was not then in love with miss elizabeth i only admired her and hated those who wer...	46
is a very difficult man to deal with what can you do with him he is going to die anyhow and of the black stock loi knows it and he says the idea of anyone staying in the house with him makes him nervous i have told his man william to stay in the house to night but i don t know that he will let him do it i went to see m...	46
despise him he was a thousand times of her than i was and made her a thousand times happier than i should have done with my selfishness she told me that she had loved me once and would have married me had i spoken but that time was long past and she now loved another better than she had ever loved me my pride was stung...	46
er i can excite your curiosity so far as to make yon go back to that early and delightful chronicle of old virginia life you will owe me a debt of gratitude which will all my page contents how her mind s old sue the of mrs s bargain the true story of the surrender of the when little was at the bar s christmas party how...	46
one ever heard him complain been kind o her mine he said in answer to at length it one night went to work on him with a flat iron to such good purpose that first a came in and then a doctor had to be called to bring him to and was arrested next morning when was sent on to the grand jury for striking with intent to and ...	46
house but ain i stay an when she i right same as an i know den i have a good supper an i ain got to my mine bout y all done been all long y all is married well s de way night been good so long i feared she some n de matter her an i kind o an sort o her up but she ain t she all right i so glad to find her way i sort o a...	46
picked up the other that s a really lovely thing he said those apple blossoms are perfect she made that herself and by jove that s a piece of the old dress she wore that night at the ball ten years ago i he leaned his head back and shut his eyes lord lord how sweet she was that night he said with his eyes still shut s...	46
me and the prize i got enabled me to get the place i have well here s my place by the way miss van s father is the new good bye she had shaken hands with him and was gone up the steps before was aware that it was beginning to shower strolled across to the flower shop to get out of the rain but just as he reached the do...	46
f o an three on three fo fo an three on three fo s sub fo hand an three on three fo street car stables on three fo you street car stables who oh you mis yes jim jim dis jim g i m jim jim drive sue in mis miller oh mis kin i off to night matter sue she done tu n fool done gone i can t do tall her she ain got no sens...	46
oldest see she was young and fresh then yes woman on the mountain bet she was used to have good time sitting up to her going to see her summer evenings walking through the woods yes sir did that she thought more of first baby than you she had more trouble with her than you when she was a baby i mean oh yes guess she ...	46
act get up here i m going to kill you and bury you shouted he seized him by the collar and pulled him out of the chair as he let him go fell in a drunken heap on the floor disappeared with two or three fellows and in a little while came back with a bucket of paint and the finest coffin from little s the s shop the old ...	46
come here uncle he said cried boy done my arm he done ruin me for life he raised his voice no he didn t don t talk so loud please sir with a glance at the door if you come this way i ll talk to yoa about it i don want to talk to you i want to talk to de doctor who is you you ain de doctor is you i see you he raised bis...	46
i see de too i see em i began to be interested the new s public library a t r and foundations you saw it all i asked well tell me about it den you gi me my money yes if it is not too much well i ll tell you he said you see dis a way i bom right in little york my she de for an i wait how old are you i asked i don know...	46
there by carrying his head with an air and wearing on his face a look of disdain which would have the judge in sending him to jail for contempt of court whatever happened he was ready with when me an little was at de bar it was thus that he happened to be present at the trial of the murderer who killed a woman in the l...	46
load o books meek me spread out on de bar em i strain my back so many i ain over it s de way i happen to be in de house to day hit hut me so i try in to it i ain bout dis little trials a whole f o load o books spread out on de bar an an made speeches an tell de bout de de murderer done kill an ax little is he ready an ...	46
got up to the apartments when i ar d at the house not liking the look of the dark passage and narrow stairs shown by the little smoky in the window i knocked knocked not once bat twenty times without the slightest result the twenty first time however was a it created a stir somewhere below for from the i heard a voice...	46
house an me under me very eyes she came stamping up the stairs quickened his steps but she was evidently gaining on him suddenly there was the most tremendous crash the pillow case had parted in the middle and the whole load rolled down the steps nearly carrying mrs with it bounded into the room with a single large lum...	46
buttons into his dress shirts and placed pillow on his pillows whilst i shaved cold when i could not wait for s can looked after my own shirts and did without pillow at table she would say to more mr or another cup of coffee mr in a tone hardly above a whisper but full of quiet interest i mentioned this to but he the i...	46
was tall handsome had eyes a long and a fine figure one was clever almost brilliant and what some women call intellectual the third was rich good looking and successful none of them had any the first was clever enough the second was very good looking and like the first was comfortably oflf and the third was neither a f...	46
was spoken of as beautiful accomplished clever good and wise and the groom was described as handsome intellectual and wealthy some people said they always thought she would have married differently some said they always knew she would marry just as she did these were mostly women she herself said that she made up her m...	46
he was an old thing the new public and foundations with a like him you never heard such a lecture in your life i preached like the doctor presently he said he would go back to the hotel he was catching cold i told him no i could not let him go back just yet but that i had some he said he never touched i told him that n...	46
tried to explain for i saw my danger i had played too naturally it never had occurred to me that they would think me a thief i was not entirely successful however your pa never would a stood no thing as said uncle he never d a let no man lay a han him in dis why that was in the play i explained don t you see mighty sor...	46
it to my complete satisfaction the jury i am bound to say were flattering in their attention only a few of them when i closed the s attorney rose and commented upon my argument in a way which came very near bringing on a personal collision in court between him and myself then the jury retired and returned so promptly t...	46
was entirely well some months after this however the next election came on it was deemed very close and every in the state counted s young was a candidate in his county and it was known that was working for him and was having much effect notwithstanding the threats against him was put up to run against him some little ...	46
said pointing at them where they lay on the ground well i warn you to write me a letter an ef you ll write it right i ll let you off i will you know you writes mighty good cause you s got a heap o you brought up in de house an i warn t but a steer driver you s a man an i ain t but a big black i done see you write you k...	46
say on his return as he spread it out on the table i reckon henry you had better count over i it is all cause i hold my hand out to him right study after he done count once and looked mighty wise until he counted it over and said s right and den i come long but i reckon you better count it over the fact was that uncle ...	46
will find somebody u make you back and den you ll know how good i to you her sympathetic editor the editor sat in his the name for all places where that particular species of animal sits and which is so called because it is sacred to every soul who can a line except the editor himself the implements of his craft lay al...	46
it a from the he asked well yes that s just what it is said the associate just at that moment voices were heard in the outer the voice of the young lady clerk who had a desk there and a strange and higher voice which was doing most of the speaking well i don t want to talk to any young woman i did not come here for t...	46
however drunken and he may be if he has a house of his own to which he can retire at will and a garden however grown up and in which he can wander when he chooses if he was not a vagabond however it was a shadowy wall which withheld him from being one and if he was not a the line which divided him from it was he was of...	46
either sir i knew your father and he was a gentleman i youve been trying to help rob me of my house all these years bat i don t blame yon that s your business that you are paid for and i don t mean you or you addressing the doctors if i were speaking of fools i might not be able to overlook you i don t mean you mr and ...	46
my father s company during the war and never charged neighbors anything and the horse wasn t doing anything anyhow i however insisted on paying something and he finally named a price which was so low that i who was used to city charges felt all day as if i had robbed him the up of the horse took some time but i did not...	46
door and peeped in i could see the wide hall dimly lighted through the large fan shaped over the door the big fireplace had the old brass in it and the settle beside it and there were several old chairs ranged back along the walls i could see the end of the wide staircase where it came down i went around and tried a do...	46
behind the bushes in which the cat bird sang she had died at the age of twenty two just my age then a sheep path led through a break in the fence out towards the road and i took it and passed out that way i found my driver almost in a fit over my long absence he was sure that i had been caught by a ghost i did not tell...	46
that it is not good for man to be alone in fact t e old fellow was afraid to be by himself believing firmly that he was in danger of being carried off bodily by the unless he had some living thing with him he was accustomed to himself during his terms of with a cat the presence of a cat he believed to bring good luck w...	46
had also more sentiment than most when he was a boy his room was always up with what the other boys called odds and ends broken tops knives dried grass pressed flowers etc which no other boy cared about but which were precious in john s eyes because they were associated with something which had given them a value to hi...	46
wardrobe one side of which he cleared for its more fitting reception he would wear it first when he claimed her for his wife it was sacred in his eyes every day or two he locked his door and taking the suit out tenderly laid it out and looked at it but never put it on again thinking to do her greater honor by wearing i...	46
clothes a dozen had but neither john nor took any more notice of them than if they had been in a desert now walk before me said john and with the clothes over his arm walked back up the street before john as if he felt the crust of the earth breaking beneath him came out of john s door a quarter of an hour later john h...	46
xx s xxi the s ball visits strange lands tries his fortunes abroad xxv the dinner at mrs s xxvi a misunderstanding and the rev mr rim mon finds the marriage xxx s last dance and s final the run on the bank reconciliation the consultation the of the the old ideal she was the first to break the silence if yon don t go ...	46
a good smooth tongue for the and a good upper cut for as on your toes you are right said mr you re for but boy to be quick with both and don t who you s it was that while was still a boy of about twelve or thirteen instead of being on the old plantation by the great woods where his life had hitherto been spent except d...	46

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