He! he! But I'm done with clubs and Delmonico's, you know.

I'm going to settle down and be a steady family man." Walking to the door, he sang in capital minstrel style: "When de preacher took his text He looked so berry much perplext, Fer nothin' come acrost his mine But Dandy Jim from Caroline! "Yah! yah! Plague take it! Come, Kate, stick on a sun-bonnet or a hat, and let's walk.

It's too nice a night to stay in the house, by George! You'll excuse, Mr.Charlton?
All right; come on, Kate." And Katy hesitated, and said in a deprecating tone: "You won't mind, will you, Brother Albert ?" And Albert said no, that he wouldn't mind, with a calmness that astonished himself; for he was aching to fall foul of Katy's lover, and beat the coxcombry out of him, or kill him.
"By-by!" said Westcott to Albert, as he went out, and young Charlton went out another door, and strode off toward Diamond Lake.

On the high knoll overlooking the lake he stopped and looked away to the east, where the darkness was slowly gathering over the prairie.

Night never looks so strange as when it creeps over a prairie, seeming to rise, like a shadowy Old Man of the Sea, out of the grass.