. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . nce with a superlatively highbred bow. I shall be back in fifteen minutes, said the Doc-tor. Come, Mr. , and went out with the stranger. Narcisse had intended to speak. He stood a mo-ment, then lifted the last half inch of a cigarette tohis lips, took a long, meditative inhalation, turnedhalf round on his heel, dashed the remnant with fierceemphasis into a spittoon, ejected two long streams ofsmoke from his nostrils, and, extending his fist to-ward the door by which the Doctor had gone out,said:— All r
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . nce with a superlatively highbred bow. I shall be back in fifteen minutes, said the Doc-tor. Come, Mr. , and went out with the stranger. Narcisse had intended to speak. He stood a mo-ment, then lifted the last half inch of a cigarette tohis lips, took a long, meditative inhalation, turnedhalf round on his heel, dashed the remnant with fierceemphasis into a spittoon, ejected two long streams ofsmoke from his nostrils, and, extending his fist to-ward the door by which the Doctor had gone out,said:— All right, ole hoss! No, not that way. It ishard to give his pronunciation by letter. In the wordright he substituted an a for the r, sounding italmost in the same instant with the i, yet distinct fromit: All a-ight, ole hoss ! Then he walked slowly back to his desk, with thatfeeling of relief which some men find in the renewalof a promissory note, twined his legs again amongthose of the stool, and, adding not a word, resumedhis pen. ffffff HARRIET BEECHER STOWE, AUTHOR OF uncle TOMs EW names are more indelibly written upon our countrys history thanthat of Harriet Beecher Stowe. No book, says George WilliamCurtis, was ever more a historical event than Uncle Toms was the great happiness of Mrs. Stowe not only to havewritten many delightful books, but to have written one book whichwill always be famous not only as the most vivid j^icture of an ex-tinct evil system, but as one of the most powerful influences in overthrowingit ... If all whom she has charmed and quickened should unite to sing herpraises, the birds of summer would be outdone. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the sixth child of Reverend Lyman Beecher,—thegreat head of that great family which has left so deep an impress upon the heartand mind of the American people. She was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, inJune, 1811,—-just two years before her next younger brother, Henry WardBeecher. Her father was pasto
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