I have thrown my lot with those who would resist the rulings of a distant government. It will pain him, but it would pain him more were I untrue to my beliefs. Tell him to remember the words of the Lord: “Be ye either hot or cold. If ye be lukewarm, I shall spit you out of my mouth.”Horrible is t...
The right thing to do. Had to give ’em that stuff, and if they read it right, give ’em more. But no sense in tellin’ too much, and never tell how little you really know. Past the gas stations in Wellfleet… fog gettin’ thick… Hunch forward. Always good to hunch forward, get closer to the windshiel...
he said to Evangeline. “‘Richard Riley was beaten to death with a hammer by one or more assailants, who left his body on the stairs of the old Daggett Tavern, originally Woodward Manor, one of the great estates of pre-Revolutionary New York. His son, Timothy, aged thirteen, was hiding in the hous...
A row of elms shielded the estate from the road, and the lawn rolled to the edge of the cliff, where a house rose out of the fog like a great white clipper. A hundred feet below, the ocean crashed against the granite coast. The house was called Searidge. Horace Taylor Pratt’s grandson had built i...