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Bret Harte. Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
Mr. Jack Hamlin's Mediation
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MR. JACK HAMLIN'S MEDIATION
PART II
THE MAN AT THE SEMAPHORE
AN ESMERALDA OF ROCKY CANYON
DICK SPINDLER'S FAMILY CHRISTMAS
WHEN THE WATERS WERE UP AT “JULES'”
THE BOOM IN THE “CALAVERAS CLARION”
THE SECRET OF SOBRIENTE'S WELL
LIBERTY JONES'S DISCOVERY
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Bret Harte
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Mrs. Rylands gazed anxiously and timidly at her husband's astonished face, as he threw off his waterproof and laid down his carpet-bag. Her own face was a little flurried with excitement, and his, half hidden in his tawny beard, and, possibly owing to his self-introspective nature, never spontaneously sympathetic, still expressed only wonder! Mrs. Rylands was a little frightened. It is sometimes dangerous to meddle with a man's habits, even when he has grown weary of them.
“I thought,” she began hesitatingly, “that it would be more cheerful for you in here, this stormy evening. I thought you might like to put your wet things to dry in the kitchen, and we could sit here together, after supper, alone.”
