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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: mirth that froze my blood and then heated it to a fever. The company howled. They rolled over one another, crying, " Charlie Toliver -- Charlie Toliver -- Oh, Lord, where's Scott Gholson --Charlie Toliver "-- and leaped up and huddled down and moaned and rolled and rose and looked for me. But, after all, fortune was merciful, and I was gone; the Major had summoned me--his brother had come. I went circuitously and alone. As I started, some fellow writhing on the grass cried, " Charlie Tol--oh, this is better than a tcharade " and a flash of divination enlightened me. While I went I burned with shame, rage and nervous exhaustion; the name Scott Gholson had gasped in my ear was the name of her in the curtained wagon, and I cursed the day in which I had heard of Charlotte Oliver. THREE DAYS' RATIONS In the vocabulary of a prig, but in the wrath of a fishwoman, I execrated Scott Gholson; his jealousies, his disclosures, his religion, his mispronunciations; and Ned Ferry--that cockerel Here was I in the barrel, and able only to squeal in irate terror at whoever looked down upon me. I could have crawled under a log and died. At the door of the Major's tent I paused to learn why there was laughter in there also, and in the bewilderment and joy of one to whom comes reprieve when the rope is on his neck, I overheard Harry Helm, the General's nephew and aide-de-camp, who had been with us, telling what a howling good joke Smith had just got off on Gholson " We shall have to get Ned Ferry back here," the Major was saying as I entered, " to make you boys let Scott Gholson alone." The young man laughed and turned to go. " Why doesn't Ned Ferry make her let Gholson alone? He can do it; he's got her round his finger as tight as she's got Gholson round hers." " Harry," replied the Ma...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217750080 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217750087 |
| Weight | 0.82 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 In |
| List Price | $14.89 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 250 pages |
| Publisher | |
| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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