Ten Times One is Ten - 1912 Author:Edward Everett Hale Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Polly counted them up. There were 103 in all. But Biddy Corcoran and Will Morton had been counted in the old Club of the station. " There are 101 new members," s... more »aid Polly. "Ten times ten is a hundred. And it was only three years ago." CHAPTER III WHAT HAPPENED NEXT Well! we reinstated King Victor Emanuel the Ugly on the throne of the Bourbons and of Murat. Then we returned to our respective homes: Garibaldi to his island, I to No. 9 in the third range, Frank Chancy to Scrooby, and Dalrymple to that truly English home in Norfolk, which nothing had driven him from but the unrest of an Englishman, — sure lo gad-fly, — and the desire of seeing Italy righted and Vittorio on the throne of Bourbon as above. In these respective spheres, as assigned to us, we subdued the world — and I, for my part, embarked in the manufacture of a new sphere and new world, of which no more at present. Then was it that the parents of Dalrymple urged him to do his duty to the respectable Norman baron who founded his line, and " settle down." Then was it that Dalrymple, seeking for trout in a brook that ran through the ancestraldomain, met Mabel Harlakenden, the youngest daughter of a neighboring house. She was sitting on a mossy rock, her feet hidden in ferns, and reading "Coventry Patmore." Dalrymple and she had not met since he broke her father's window with a horse-chestnut on the day of her tenth birthday. Then was it that he introduced himself to her again, and fished no more that day, nor did she read any more. Three months after was it that in the parish church he gave her a ring. The minister took the ring and gave it to Dalrymple, and he then put it on the fourth finger of Mabel Harlakenden's left hand. Then he was taught by the minister. And then they all went home to Dalrymple's father...« less