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That he managed to go through with, and then he died. Now, no one has bothered about the title " "And you're going back to claim it?" "Exactly." I took it all lightly at first, but in time I began to perceive that it was a serious ambition. He truly wanted to be Baron S and add to himself the luster of his ancestors.
"Mortgages never bothered you but I wouldn't. In the first place, my tub was warm. I never saw a house with a brownstone front that was, except in summer, and then the owner cursed it because it was so. My tub had no plumbing in it to get out of order. It hadn't any flights of stairs in it that had to be climbed after dinner, or late at night when I came home from the club.
Months, always, sometimes years, had elapsed between his visits. "The last time didn't count, did it," he went on, in speech vague and desultory yet, at the same time, intent and bright in look. "I was so bothered; I behaved like a selfish brute; I'm sure you felt it. And you were so particularly kind and good and dear to me, Amabel." She felt herself flushing.
Perhaps if he had waited for her to tell him, her gladness would have sent her story bubbling to her lips, but he did not wait. "I'm bothered, Honey, that's why I can't eat." "What's the bother, Dad?" Madeira, considering that this was his opportunity, closed in determinedly, with that iron grip of his. "It's that man Steering, Honey." "Taken a foolish old dislike to him, haven't you, Dad?"
"I have heard my father say that depositors sometimes take fright at the slightest things concerning the private lives of bankers. Andy, I would not like for this to cost Dick a cent. I couldn't bear that." "Do you think you ought to entertain such fine-spun ideas in regard to him when when he is living as he is?" "That has bothered me, too," she said, quickly.
"Now," said I, gaining courage, "I have spent most of my life at sea, where we don't play the games you have on shore, but if any of you will teach me, I shall be very glad to learn them; and perhaps I may show you how to do a number of things you know nothing about." From that day forward I was never bothered by having questions put to me.
But what I " "Was he an officer, dear?" "No, no, mother, a sergeant," he answered abruptly, and in the same breath continued. "What I was going to say is this. No one as far as I know has ever bothered to work out the psychology of fear.
He seemed to assume that a thing must of necessity be right, since he chose to do it. She looked up and met his eyes watching her with a glint of amusement in their depths. "No, it isn't quite proper," he agreed, answering her unspoken thought. "But I've never bothered about that if I really wanted to do a thing.
Lund stood a full head above the tallest of them, which was Rainey, and he was always in the thick of the work, directing, demanding the utmost, and setting example to back command. His eyes had bothered him, and he had made a pair of Arctic snow-glasses, mere circles of wood with slits in them.
"Murray has just arrived, Falconer, with the good news!" he took out the gold chain to which the key of the despatch box was fastened, and inserted it in the lock. "The good news, Staff! I haven't bothered and bored you with details; but you know, my dear boy, that I have had a big scheme on hand for some time past a very big scheme.
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