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You look it," suggested the young man, in a voice made anxious by an ever-ready sympathy. "Can I do anything? I am really very sorry to have spoken so." A damp chill gathered on the brow of Bushwyck Carr. He did feel a trifle queer. A curious lightness a perfectly inexplicable buoyancy seemed to possess him.
Meanwhile, the Carr family and its affiliations had invested every cent they possessed in Green Mouse, Limited; and those who controlled the stock were Bushwyck Carr; William Augustus Destyn and Mrs. Destyn, née Ethelinda Carr; Mr. Killian Van K. Vanderdynk and Mrs. Vanderdynk, née Sacharissa Carr; George Gray and Mrs.
"Then " And, leaning closer, William Augustus Destyn whispered into Bushwyck Carr's fat, red ear. "What!!!" "Certainly." "You can't prove it!" "Watch me." Ethelinda had dried her eyes. Every few minutes she glanced anxiously at the little French clock over her easel. "What on earth can they be doing?" she murmured. And when the long hour struck she arose with resolution and knocked at the door.
"Is it all right?" she asked calmly. "Was dad vivacious?" The young man said: "I'd rather go back into that elevator than go to Tuxedo.... But I'm going." "So am I," said Bushwyck Carr's daughter, dropping both hands on her lover's shoulders.... "Was he really very vivid?" "Very." The telephone again rang furiously. He bent his head; she lifted her face and he kissed her.
Showing What Comes of Disobedience, Rosium, and Flour-Paste About noon Bushwyck Carr bounced into the gymnasium, where the triplets had just finished their fencing lesson. "Did any of you three go into the laboratory this morning?" he demanded, his voice terminating in a sort of musical bellow, like the blast of a mellow French horn on a touring car.
Gray, very lately Sybilla Carr; and the unmarried triplets, Flavilla and Drusilla Carr. Remembering with a shudder how Bell Telephone and Standard Oil might once have been bought for a song, Bushwyck Carr determined that in this case his pudgy fingers should not miss the forelock of Time and the divided skirts of Chance.
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