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"Well, yes, he had been," answered Bolton. "But she'd be'n in the asylum ever since the child was born." "Oh," said Miss Kilburn, with relief; and she fell back upon the seat from which she had started forward. Bolton might easily have taken her tone for that of disgust. He faced round upon her once more.
We proceeded as far as the closed gates, whereupon: "There you are, sir," said Bolton triumphantly. "I told you it was empty." An estate agent's bill faced us, setting forth the desirable features of the residence, the number of bedrooms and reception rooms, modern conveniences, garage, etc., together with the extent of the garden, lawn and orchard.
Bolton was a young man, with a somewhat sickly and very dissipated expression of countenance. His habiliments were composed of an exquisite union of gentility, slovenliness, assumption, simplicity, newness, and old age. Half of him was dressed for the winter, the other half for the summer.
'There's Young Denny Bolton, he said, 'who went to school with him, right here in this town. Ask him if Jeddy Conway was pretty handy as a boy! And he laughed, Flash commenced to chuckle! Oh, there was no misunderstanding what he meant to insinuate. 'Ask him but maybe he's still a little mite too sensitive to talk about it yet eh, Denny?
"Wish their dress-parades were in the brimstone flames," growled Abe Bolton, as he rose to accompany his comrade. "All they're for is to stand up as a background, to show off a lot of spruce young officers dressed in fancy rigs." "Well," said Kent, lightly, as they walked along, "I kind of like that; don't you?
She answered with deafening promises, when they put their bonnets out of the carry-all and called back to her to be sure to come soon to see them soon. Mrs. Bolton made no advances with Annie toward the discussion of her friends; but when Annie asked about their families, she answered with the incisive directness of a country-bred woman.
The reader is not to suppose that she was an ugly, cross-looking old woman. She was neither ugly, nor old, nor cross. When she had married Mr. Bolton, she had been quite young, and now she was not much past forty. And she was handsome too, with a fine oval face which suited well with the peculiar simplicity of her dress and the sober seriousness of her gait and manner.
'I wish you'd go over to Chesterton and judge for yourself. 'They wouldn't know what such a thing meant. It is years since I have been in the house. I believe that Mrs. Bolton devotes herself to religious exercises and that she regards me as a pagan. 'That's just the difficulty, sir. How am I to get at her? But you may be sure of this, I mean to do it.
The New Eagley Mills being situated in a narrow valley, several miles from Bolton, and the property being in the possession of the owners, they forbade the opening of any tavern or beerhouse on the estate; so that the district became distinguished for the order and sobriety of the inhabitants. A man of intemperate habits has little chance of remaining in the Ashworth villages.
"I imagine," said Professor Bolton, smiling his academic smile, "that the inmates of Baldpate will make to-morrow a rather interesting day for him." "It will be an interesting day for every one," answered the voice. "If I should manage to secure the package, by any chance," the professor went on, "I shall undoubtedly need your help in getting away with it. Let us arrange a signal.
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