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But the chief reason for my laugh was that, just before he came in on me, I was almost pinching myself to see whether I was dreaming it all, and he had made me feel how vividly true it was. "Why don't you ease down, Blacklock?" he went on. "Everything's smooth. The business at least, my end of it, and I suppose your end, too was never in better shape, never growing so fast.
"Anita, leave us alone with Mr. Blacklock," commanded her mother. The girl hesitated, bent her head, and with a cowed look went slowly toward the door. There she paused, and, with what seemed a great effort, lifted her head and gazed at me. How I ever came rightly to interpret her look I don't know, but I said: "Miss Ellersly, I've the right to insist that you stay."
You quite captivated her, Blacklock. Can't you dine with us to-morrow night no, Sunday at eight? We're having in a few people I think you'd like to meet." If any one imagines that this bald, businesslike way of putting it set my teeth on edge, let him dismiss the idea; my nerves had been too long accustomed to the feel of the harsh facts of life.
Yet you, as shrewd and careful a lawyer as there is at the bar, want me to believe you trusted that work to a boy! If you did, you're a damn fool. If you didn't, you're a damn scoundrel. There's no more doubt in my mind than in yours which of those horns has you sticking on it." "You are letting your quick temper get away with you, Mr. Blacklock," he deprecated. "Stop lying!"
I got Saxe then senior partner in Browne, Saxe and Einstein on the 'phone, and said: "Just see and tell me, will you, what is the 'bill defining the power of sundry commissions' the bill the governor signed yesterday?" "Certainly, Mr. Blacklock," came the answer.
And the airs, the cynicism, the graceful condescension, which had been so becoming to him, were now as out of place as crown and robes on a king taking a swimming lesson. "What are your terms, Blacklock? Don't be too hard on an old friend," said he, trying to carry off his frank plea for mercy with a smile.
Ours has been a pitiful series of misunderstandings." "A trap! A trap!" I was warning myself. "You've been a fool long enough, Blacklock." And aloud I said: "Well, Anita, the series is ended now. There's no longer any occasion for our lying or posing to each other. Any arrangements your uncle's lawyers suggest will be made." I was bowing, to leave without shaking hands with her.
Wilkie was to be the Homer, Blacklock the Pindar, and Home the Shakespeare or something still greater of his country. See ante, ii. 121, 296, 306. The Present State of Music in France and Italy, I vol. 1771, and The Present State of Music in Germany, &c., 2 vols. 1773. Johnson must have skipped widely in reading these volumes, for though Dr.
I even left off the magnificent diamond I had worn for years on my little finger but I didn't give away that stone; I put it by for resetting into an engagement ring. However, when I was as quietly dressed as it was possible for a gentleman to be, he still studied me dubiously, when he thought I wasn't seeing him. And I recall that he said once: "It's your face, Blacklock.
Blacklock, this is most extraordinary," he expostulated. "Extraordinary? I call it criminal," I retorted. "Listen to me. You look after the legislation calendars for me, and for Langdon, and for Roebuck, and for Melville, and for half a dozen others of the biggest financiers in the country. It's the most important work you do for us.
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