- •Important in "local color" as they are racy in humor. Yet none of
- •1848, _Godey's Lady's Book_) and _Aunt Magwire's Account of the
- •Included in the present volume; others are _The Batson Cottage_
- •Influence on structure in the short story has been great, it is
- •14, 1832, Philadelphia _Saturday Courier_), _Ms. Found in a Bottle_
- •1854, Is given in this volume because it is a good humorous short
- •Ironsides_, _The Last Leaf_, _The Chambered Nautilus_ and _Homesick in
- •Instantly the night becomes resonant with the impassioned reply (the
- •1897), _Salomy Jane's Kiss_ (in _Stories in Light and Shadow_, 1898),
- •Into the twentieth century and Mary e. Wilkins Freeman (1862- ) is
- •In letters. American literature has always been strong in its "stray"
- •It has the advantage--is this not also an author's advantage?--of a
- •Introduction
- •Volume, _Short Sixes_, by permission of its publishers, Charles
- •Interesting "back to Nature" experiment at Westfield, Massachusetts.
- •Immediately after the sale. How much for them? Give them a start at
- •In the very wantonness of joy as he repaired to Delmonico's, and
- •It was near night when he arrived at the auction-room--his horse in a
- •Imp ab te wing, und te head-teuffel ab te wing. Te angel ab _not_ te
- •I gave the matter no further consideration, and at my usual hour
- •In the mud, took it suddenly into his head that his left shoulder
- •Implacable heart. The fates were again propitious for a brief period,
- •In grasping the end of a long guide-rope, which depended from a
- •Into a relaxation of the muscles, it was "in such a sort" as if he was
- •Inadmissible requisite for his place. The rest is more readily taken
- •Very well why the master did not undertake him on the spot.
- •Invigorated authority. Twice certified, who should dare doubt his
- •Improvement; and although at the end of the term he could not quite
- •Invention not new in the country, the harness of Mr. Kingsbury's
- •If he had been born within the shadow of the Tombs.
- •It suited his purposes, but for the untimely intrusion of the weaver's
- •Visitors, and that her servants had general orders to that effect. But
- •In the ladies' drawing-room, after dinner, the Morlands heard a
- •It out of his hand. "I'll use it to your full satisfaction."
- •It was only half past ten when Jane was in the midst of her piece. The
- •Inquired of the driver if he could not take them to Rutgers Place. The
- •Instruments in their hands.
- •It grew dark as we stood in the office talking, and taking our hats we
- •In truth, I have observed, down town, that the fact of your ancestors
- •I shall soon be gone, but I want to leave with you some memento of my
- •I saw strange sights when I looked at them through the glasses. If two
- •Itself against a stone. I wept, until my spectacles were dimmed for
- •I was constantly lost in a world, of which those companions were part,
- •Xerxes and his army tossing and glittering, rank upon rank, multitude
- •Into pets. Anger is an expensive luxury, in which only men of a
- •Into the safe, where his bills payable were hived, and the other into
- •I escaped from her arms, and ran home and seized the glasses and
- •Intelligent and successful. But when I looked at them through my
- •I did not feel as they felt who saw in all this, not only propriety,
- •Indifference to such homage, and had declared it was astonishing she
- •Vanity by haunting the apartment in which were stored the trophies of
- •Indeed, half bright enough. If one could only have been left to do his
- •I launched him by sending him to a meeting of the Enlightenment Board.
- •I ought to go to their exhibitions. But think, reader, of sitting
- •It happened; upon which Dennis had risen, and had said, "There has
- •Inherited from her father some shares in that enterprise, which is not
- •Very gligloglum, that is, that you were m-m-m-m-m." By gradually
- •I know, indeed, that public men of the highest rank have resorted to
- •Italian, Spanish, German and English began to take polish. Heavens!
- •Is chosen president of the Young Men's Library, there must be a
- •Instead of the metal. Children have bad habits in that way. The
- •Isaacs, to give him his due, shook his head. But the look was enough.
- •In his time, and well known in the business world, but lost his
- •In Tartary for establishing Insane Hospitals?"
- •Is that any reason why Mr. Webster's publishers should hitch one on in
- •Immediately asked, "Why is Douglas like the earth?"
- •Venerable gentleman with flowing locks, who was propounding questions
- •Italy?" asked the Patriarch.
- •I had to laugh.
- •It; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you
- •I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras
- •Idea what the matter was, of course.
- •If he don't weigh five pounds!" and turned him upside down and he
- •It was a queer figure that crept along the road that cheery May
- •Invigorating motion, bent only on making the air ring with the lines
- •Interest was at one and a half per cent. For seven months, and a
- •Item of his memoranda would come to light, and thrusting his hand into
- •It was from sheer good-nature only that Elder Brown replied, with his
- •Infernal ole fool 'sulted me, an' I lef' him to walk home."
- •Into the saloon and to the bar. The reaction was too much for his
- •Is due to pure veracity I will. On as many as three different
- •In her hand. Such uncommon conduct in a woman like Mrs. Pink Fluker of
- •I've said freckwent, a _very_ fa'r house. I let them infloonces go to
- •It? Jes' so. Twenty-five breakfasts at a quarter makes six an' a
- •I was not surprised when, after breakfast, my wife invited the Bredes
- •I went up to my wife's room.
- •It was a pretty, delicate, dainty dress, a graceful, narrow-striped
- •In a broad, uneven band, bright in the morning sun.
- •Visited the other in his country home.
- •Very fond of horses and always drove himself, while Buller was more
- •Very much.
- •Is that I hear? Is that a train?"
- •In a husky voice. "Thomas, the water is over my shoes!"
- •Instinctively he clutched Buller.
- •I'll have you in a dry suit of clothes in less than fifteen minutes."
- •Informed that he might have to wait for an hour or more. This did not
- •It didn't throw me out."
- •If the Colonel had been surprised before, he was now really startled,
- •In a jury.
- •I want to know first is, kin you take the case?"
- •It all the easier for you," said the young woman.
- •Illuminated, in that single glance. And when the eyelids fell again,
- •In regard to the distinct promise of marriage--was there--er--no
- •Voice, "what you mean by what you call 'my attentions' to--any one--or
- •Indiscretion committed in behalf of a lady--my--er--client."
- •Inspiration and a prophecy.
- •In her smile. She dragged her chair nearer his desk. "Then you'll
- •Injin! And when you rolled it all off at the end--never missing a
- •If that act had condoned for his first omissions and awkwardness, he
- •It was therefore not remarkable that the courthouse three weeks later
- •Vaguely, in this bizarre figure, something of an honored past in their
- •It." After a pause he added, addressing the Colonel, who remained
- •It was his duty to tell them that this was not one of those ordinary
- •Venus--and the inspired writings themselves were used as the medium of
- •In their memory by the knowledge that the defendant was capable of
- •In the republic low enough to represent its value.
- •Inordinate weakness of the flesh, with shameless hypocrisy underscores
- •Inamorata--but a number of flagons or vessels, each possibly holding
- •Voice had the unmistakable Western-American ring in it, as of one who
- •Voice was heard saying, "We rest here, your Honor," and he sat down.
- •It was not long before the two were like old chums. The Major set
- •Invitations went for fifty miles around; the occasional feuds with the
- •It was a fascination to Hargraves to watch him make it. He took rank
- •It on the table.
- •Individual. The way the audience caught on shows that. Half the
- •I would consider your insulting offer of a financial adjustment of the
- •Volcanically.
- •It is marvelous how much one can see out of the corner of the eye,
- •Is quite a draught from that broken window."
- •Impatiently.
- •In the confusion of rescuing the fluffery, the owner of the suitcase
- •Vinegar and wormwood to Mrs. Ellsworth, and she gazed after the
- •In nutmegs and chicory. No task seemed impossible. He walked in to see
- •Insisted, gathering up her armload of branches. "I couldn't think of
- •In spite of the sly smile that he had permitted to himself, he was
- •It, and never the suspicion of a smile deepened the dimple in the
- •Van Kamp.
- •I've had a big pot o' stewed chicken ready on the stove fer two mortal
- •Veil the all-too-brilliant polish of his cowhide shoes. Also the
- •Intelligently. He could do that.
- •I'm here. What's likely to happen after we get rid of the card?"
- •It was characteristic that the freckled boy remained standing. He
- •Into the shadows of the big hall: "You Babe! Go put two extra plates
- •If your mothers let you eat all you want, say so, and I don't care;
- •Intention with result became village talk? Ross bit fiercely upon an
- •Interest. Which one that management might become was a matter of
- •Its heels in the face of the best that Squire Hopkins drove. In his
- •It was nip and tuck, the deacon encouraging his horse and the widow
- •It possible for him to win. The deacon shivered as he thought of it,
- •Indian River in search of various fish. On days when fish had been
- •Imagination, others charming by their number and crispness--the
- •Inner coast of Florida which Gideon knew best, which was home.
- •Inherent in the negro. He gave one regretful thought to the gorgeous
- •In his head. But for the most part his broad black face was turned up
- •It was as excruciatingly funny as it had ever been, when his boat
- •Ingenerate familiars of his wild, forgotten blood. He groaned aloud in
- •Inclining her head coquettishly; but it evidently meant nothing to
- •Vashti rose to her feet with a sigh.
- •In this sudden act of violence. He was aglow with happiness; he was
- •Vashti's sobbing had grown small and ceased; he wondered if she had
- •International donations are gratefully accepted, but we cannot make
Injin! And when you rolled it all off at the end--never missing a
word--(you didn't need to mark 'em in a lesson-book, but had 'em all
ready on your tongue), and walked out--Well! I didn't know you nor the
Ditch Company from Adam, but I could have just run over and kissed you
there before the whole court!"
She laughed, with her face glowing, although her strange eyes were
cast down. Alack! the Colonel's face was equally flushed, and his own
beady eyes were on his desk. To any other woman he would have voiced
the banal gallantry that he should now, himself, look forward to that
reward, but the words never reached his lips. He laughed, coughed
slightly, and when he looked up again she had fallen into the same
attitude as on her first visit, with her parasol point on the floor.
"I must ask you to--er--direct your memory--to--er--another point; the
breaking off of the--er--er--er--engagement. Did he--er--give any
reason for it? Or show any cause?"
"No; he never said anything," returned the girl.
"Not in his usual way?--er--no reproaches out of the hymn-book?--or
the sacred writings?"
"No; he just _quit_."
"Er--ceased his attentions," said the Colonel, gravely. "And naturally
you--er--were not conscious of any cause for his doing so." The girl
raised her wonderful eyes so suddenly and so penetratingly without
reply in any other way that the Colonel could only hurriedly say: "I
see! None, of course!"
At which she rose, the Colonel rising also. "We--shall begin
proceedings at once. I must, however, caution you to answer no
questions nor say anything about this case to any one until you are in
court."
She answered his request with another intelligent look and a nod. He
accompanied her to the door. As he took her proffered hand he raised
the lisle-thread fingers to his lips with old-fashioned gallantry. As
If that act had condoned for his first omissions and awkwardness, he
became his old-fashioned self again, buttoned his coat, pulled out his
shirt frill, and strutted back to his desk.
A day or two later it was known throughout the town that Zaidee Hooker
had sued Adoniram Hotchkiss for breach of promise, and that the
damages were laid at five thousand dollars. As in those bucolic days
the Western press was under the secure censorship of a revolver, a
cautious tone of criticism prevailed, and any gossip was confined to
personal expression, and even then at the risk of the gossiper.
Nevertheless, the situation provoked the intensest curiosity. The
Colonel was approached--until his statement that he should consider
any attempt to overcome his professional secrecy a personal reflection
withheld further advances. The community were left to the more
ostentatious information of the defendant's counsel, Messrs. Kitcham
and Bilser, that the case was "ridiculous" and "rotten," that the
plaintiff would be nonsuited, and the fire-eating Starbottle would be
taught a lesson that he could not "bully" the law--and there were some
dark hints of a conspiracy. It was even hinted that the "case" was the
revengeful and preposterous outcome of the refusal of Hotchkiss to pay
Starbottle an extravagant fee for his late services to the Ditch
Company. It is unnecessary to say that these words were not reported
to the Colonel. It was, however, an unfortunate circumstance for the
calmer, ethical consideration of the subject that the church sided
with Hotchkiss, as this provoked an equal adherence to the plaintiff
and Starbottle on the part of the larger body of non-church-goers, who
were delighted at a possible exposure of the weakness of religious
rectitude. "I've allus had my suspicions o' them early candle-light
meetings down at that gospel shop," said one critic, "and I reckon
Deacon Hotchkiss didn't rope in the gals to attend jest for
psalm-singing." "Then for him to get up and leave the board afore the
game's finished and try to sneak out of it," said another. "I suppose
that's what they call _religious_."