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It was to him that Barton had sent Carl Dill on Dill's release from the prison.
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The easiest thing would be to sell out to Al Budd and leave the country, but there was a stubborn streak in him that wouldn't allow it.
The best antidote for the bitterness and disappointment that poisoned him was hard work.
He was silent a moment, thinking he could use a man this time of year, and if the girl could cook, it would give him more time in the meadows, but he knew nothing about the couple.
They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.
There was more to this than Jones had told him.
He was thinking of Rittenhouse and how he had left him there, to rock to death on the porch of the Splendide.
The silence oppressed him, made him bend low over the horse's neck as if to hide from a wind that had begun to blow far away and was twisting slowly through the darkness in its slow search.
He knew who was riding after him -- the men he had known all his life, the men who had worked for him, sworn their loyalty to him.
The Gap looming before him -- the place where had confronted Jack English on that day so many years ago -- was his exit from all that had meaning to him.
The stockade was brilliantly lighted and the guerrillas sighted him.
At the same moment Wheeler Fiske fired the rifle Mike had given him and another guerrilla was hit.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
He was riding between two warriors, who held him erect when he started to slump.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
She had picked up the quirt and was twirling it around her wrist and smiling at him.
It was meant to insult him, and didn't quite succeed.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
She brought up her free hand to hit him, but this time he was quicker.
But it was not easy for him and he often slipped.
Once, pressing him, I learned that his job was only part-time, in the afternoons when nothing went on in the hall.
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Barton was relieved to see that Carl Dill and Emmett Foster had brought extra mounts.
Dill was silent as if he hated to answer, and Barton had a cold, sick feeling of apprehension.
It was over an hour before their escape was discovered, but still the news that Barton was free flashed across the central portion of the state.
For everyone involved knew that the whole valley was a powder keg, and Mitchell Barton the fuse which could send it into explosive violence.
She was born Frances Barton, the daughter of a private soldier, and began her career as a flower girl and a street singer.
His first act was to appoint the inaugural Prime Minister, Edmund Barton, since the first federal elections were not held until March.
In 1858 ( when she was 39 ) Amos Barton, the first of the Scenes of Clerical Life, was published in Blackwood's Magazine and, along with the other Scenes, was well received.
This defense was first used by U. S. Congressman Daniel Sickles of New York in 1859 after he had killed his wife's lover, Philip Barton Key, but was most used during the 1940s and 1950s.
A later proposal by William Barton Rogers led to a charter for the incorporation of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which was signed by the governor of Massachusetts on April 10, 1861.
Lyne was unable to do so and returned his commission in favour of Edmund Barton, who became the first prime minister and led the inaugural government into and beyond the election.
He was the second of only two Australian prime ministers to be knighted during their term of office ( the first prime minister Edmund Barton was knighted during his term in 1902 ).
* In 1973 Menzies was awarded Japan's Order of the Rising Sun, Grand Cordon, First Class ( other Australian Prime Ministers to be awarded this honour were Edmund Barton, John McEwen, Malcolm Fraser and Gough Whitlam ).
One of the designers of the B5000, Robert S. Barton, later wrote that he developed RPN independently of Hamblin sometime in 1958 while reading a textbook by Kopi on symbolic logic and before he was aware of Hamblin's work.
The Big Lebowski was written around the same time as Barton Fink.
According to Ethan, " the movie was conceived as pivoting around that relationship between the Dude and Walter ", which sprang from the scenes between Barton Fink and Charlie Meadows in Barton Fink.
The director was Scott Elliott, the choreographer Aszure Barton, and, while not adored by the critics, the production was nominated for the " Best Musical Revival " Tony award.
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Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.
Both had blonde hair and blue eyes, and there was even a faint similarity of features.
It was the night Clayton had tricked them in the poker game.
The land over which he sped was the land he had created and lived in: his valley.
He was thinking that the way she had responded to his own kiss hadn't meant what he had believed it had.
He might tell her how sorry a spectacle she was making of herself, pretending to be blind to the way Julia Fortune had taken Dean's affections from her.
His looting of the orderly room had taken only a minute or two and the vicinity was still clear of guerrillas.
The bullet had torn through the flesh just above the knee, inflicting an ugly gash that was forming a pool of blood on the floor.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
She said, and her tone had softened until it was almost friendly.
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