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She wished she could tell her father. Yet, if she told him, how could she account for what she did with the money? And would it be a hundred? Perhaps fifty, perhaps less. But Paliser saw to it that Mrs. Beamish behaved properly. On the morrow Ma Tamby dumped in Cassy's astonished lap two hundred and fifty less ten per cent., business is business for samples of the bel canto which Mrs.
Reminded he was not alone by feeling the hand on his arm tremble, he glanced down at his companion; and his eye was arrested by a neatly parted head, of the glossiest black imaginable. He pulled himself together. "Your cousins are excellent walkers." "Oh, yes, very. But they are not my cousins." Mahony pricked up his ears. "But you live here?" "Yes. I help moth ... Mrs. Beamish in the house."
"I couldn't understand what was meant, and while I sat undecided what to do I heard my father say, 'No trouble planting the stuff? Captain Beamish answered, 'Archer said not, but then Archer is Archer. He's planting it in small lots ten here, twenty there, fifty in t'other place; I don't think he put out more than fifty at any one time.
He delivered these words loudly to his men, and turned an effulgent gaze upon the duchess, so that for a minute she was fascinated and did not consult her hearing; but presently she fell into an uneasiness; the signs increased, she bit her lip, and after breathing short once or twice, 'Was it meaning me, Mr. Beamish? she said. 'You, madam, are the person whom we 'delight to honour, he replied.
Nothing was said of the project, and after vainly waiting for some mention of it, my husband returned to his study, after letting Mr. Beamish know that he was not to be disturbed till eleven o'clock, for it was the time of his morning work. "Very well," answered our guest; "meanwhile I shall put my books and papers in order."
Beamish swept the little bedroom and its sloping roof with a withering glance. "I was 'orrified, girls, simply 'ORRIFIED!" she related the incident to her daughters. "An' I up an' told 'er so just like me, you know. Not room enough to swing a cat in, and 'im sittin' at the 'ead of the table as 'igh an' mighty as a dook! You can thank yer stars, you two, 'e didn't take one o' you instead o' Polly."
'Young people, said Mr. Beamish, 'come under my observation in this poor realm of mine young and old. I find them prodigiously alike in their love of pleasure, differing mainly in their capacity to satisfy it. That is no uncommon observation. The young, have an edge which they are desirous of blunting; the old contrariwise.
The splendid equipage of a coach and six, with footmen in scarlet and green, carried Beau Beamish five miles along the road on a sunny day to meet the young duchess at the boundary of his territory, and conduct her in state to the Wells. Chloe sat beside him, receiving counsel with regard to her prospective duties.
He had taken the right tone, and when they began to disperse he rode on to the Sachem. "I want your account of this disturbance," he said to the proprietor. Beamish related what had taken place and the constable looked surprised. "Am I to understand that you're afraid to open your bar because of the women?" he asked. "Yes, sir," replied Beamish, coolly; "that's about the size of it.
Fairchild was on the edge of his chair. But Beamish only spread his hands. "Truthfully, Boy, I don't know. I have guessed but I won't tell you what. All I know is that your father found what he was looking for and was on the point of achieving his every dream, when something happened.
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