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The McVeys

The McVeys

Kirkland, Joseph

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ISBN10: 1150784210
ISBN13: 9781150784217
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 110
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.57 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1888 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XLI. GOOD-BY, ALL! Strafford (beside his editorial tasks) had now to work himself into the management of the great Prouder estate, for its author had other fish to fry. Early spring saw a quiet, happy wedding and a long, long wedding-tour. First (of course) Chicago; and next a ride on the Pioneer, resplendent in her new pilot, smoke-stack, and cab, but (as her engineer, Sam Sanders, proudly pointed out) her old foot-board, worn thin by Phil's honored tread. Then a day at the scene of the accursed wreck, where Anne was greeted by a score of eager sympathizers. (Among other hands that clasped hers were some of those which had avenged her.) A few days at Galena and the Red Hill were taken up in a season of renewed mourning, for Annie, lovely in her melancholy, had remained resolutely faithful to Phil's memory, greatly to poor Perry Fenton's disappointment. Now for the real bridal-trip, beginning with a ten days' voyage down the Mississippi to meet the spring. Ice and snow at the North are exchanged for roses and balmy breezes at New Orleans. Anne (being a wise woman) resolutely throws her adoring bridegroom on his own resources for some hours of every day while she writes faithfully to the Bugle; and by judicious dividing up, her letters are made to furnish at least a few bright paragraphs for every number of the famous third page. The only breaks which are permitted in these hours of isolation are the times when Zury cannot help begging her to come out just for one minute to observe the marvels that meet him at every turn. The strange river-life of blacks and whites; the wild songs of the roustabouts on the forward deck; when the Magnolia, having made a landing, drops down along the whole length of the line of wharf-boats and then surges u...

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