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George, "I am going to spend the morning at Piale's library, reading the papers, and you will be left to entertain yourself." "O, that's no matter," said Rollo. "I can get Charles Beekman to go with me. We can take care of ourselves very well." "What will you do?" asked Mr. George. "I want to go and see the Tarpeian Rock," said Rollo.
"Woods preached about the rights of Cæsar, no later than yesterday, you ought to know, Beekman," put in the laughing captain; "and I am afraid he will be publicly praying for the success of the British arms, before long." "I did pray for the Royal Family," said the chaplain, with spirit, "and hope I shall ever continue to do so." "My dear fellow, I do not object to that.
And when he returns, old and decrepit, and, we might hope, purged of that fatal appetite which has worked all the woe, it is his old victim, the woman whose youth his evil habits ruined, and who, in consequence of those habits was driven into the power of the tormentor, Derrick von Beekman, who hands him 'the cup that shall be death in tasting, as if it were she, and not he, who had been properly chastened and converted from the fatal error of supposing that drunkenness is not a good thing.
I am an Englishman too, in the general view of the case, though born in Massachusetts. Of English descent, and an English subject." "Umph! Then Beekman, here, who is of Dutch descent, is not bound by the same principles as we are ourselves?" "Not by the same feelings possibly; but, surely, by the same principles. Colonel Beekman is an Englishman by construction, and you are by birth.
"He seemed to be very occupied about something. No, I don't think I ever saw him speak to a soul here, except a word to the waiters and the boys. Once, though," he recollected, "he was called up by a Mrs. Beekman Rogers." "Mrs. Beekman Rogers," repeated Kennedy, jotting the name down and looking it up in the telephone-book.
Andy's whole being centered upon the thought that he must reach the Beekman Place; and the coming storm might delay him. Only so far did it affect him. He felt no hunger; it troubled him a little that his mother and Ruth would worry about him, but nothing mattered so much as the solving of the doubt that was causing his heart and brain to throb.
Dawkins gazed at her large feet in embarrassment. "I don't know, ma'am," she admitted. "I didn't suppose you'd want her here so I sent her away. It was quite inconvenient, too with the servant problem what it is. But I'm hoping to get another this afternoon from Miss Healey's." Miss Beekman was genuinely annoyed. "I am seriously displeased with you, Dawkins!" she returned severely.
If there was an unusually large trout in a river, Beekman knew about it before any one else, and got there first, and came home with the fish. It did not make him unduly proud, because there was nothing uncommon about it. It was his habit to succeed, and all the rest of us were hardened to it.
Jim did wish, when he saw all the pretty girls, that he was a grown man and could dance. Ben found some men to talk to, and Mr. Bond, who was in a large jewelry establishment, told him about some rare and precious stones. Old Mrs. Beekman made much of them and said she envied Mrs. Underhill her fine boys. There was supper about midnight.
Bob will do well enough, and will very likely come out of this affair a lieutenant-colonel. I may live yet to see him a general officer; certainly, if I live to be as old as my grandfather, Sir Thomas. As for Maud, she finds Beulah uneasy about Beekman; and having no husband herself, or any over that she cares a straw about, why she just falls upon Bob as a pis aller.
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