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Gangdom was in a daze itself, little knowing the smooth stone that Carton had slung between the eyes of the great underworld Goliath of the law. At last Carton's case was all in, and Kahn rose to present his own, a forced smile on his face.
There was a drawback to the profit in those cases, as Carton would be obliged to sell both at a reduced price. Still they had made a considerable sum from these transactions, though not nearly as much as Mr. Goodnow had lost. After the discovery of the theft and the discharge of Rodney, the two confederates felt that it would be imprudent to do any more in that line.
Jett alternating punctiliously with each of the boarding-house ladies for driving companion. Every noon, for her delectation at luncheon, he sent a boy from the store with a carton of her special favorites Blue Point oysters. She suddenly liked them small because, as she put it, they went down easier, and he thought that charming. Lynnhavens for mortals of tougher growth.
On entering the school buildings, our three friends were convinced of the truth of their comrade's story, and on their way to the schoolroom the question was repeated at least half a dozen times "Have you heard about old 'Thirsty' being cobbed in the Black Swan?" Diggory thought of the conversation he had overheard in Acton's study, and mentioned it to Carton. "Yes," answered the latter.
You want that sense altogether; therefore I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures: or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music." Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend. "Now you know all about it, Syd," said Mr. Stryver.
"I don't think I ever heard of such effrontery, such open, bare- faced chicanery," fumed Carton impatiently. "We'll catch the fellow yet," replied Kennedy confidently. "And I think we'll find him a bad lot." At last the telephone rang and Carton answered it eagerly. As he did so, he quickly motioned to us to go to the outside office where we, too, could listen on extensions. "Yes, this is Mr.
With wonderful quickness, and with a strength both of will and action, that appeared quite supernatural, he forced all these changes upon him. The prisoner was like a young child in his hands. "Carton! Dear Carton! It is madness. It cannot be accomplished, it never can be done, it has been attempted, and has always failed. I implore you not to add your death to the bitterness of mine."
A general alarm was given, through the police, for the apprehension of William, but we had small hope that anything would result from it, for at that time Carton's enemies controlled the police and I am not sure but that they would have been just a little more dilatory in apprehending one who had done Carton an injury than if it had been someone else.
"I don't know that the cases are parallel," returned Kennedy with an amused smile. Murtha kept his good nature admirably. "Then you would stick your foot out and perhaps lose the race yourself?" persisted Murtha. "I'll relieve Kennedy of answering that," interrupted Carton, "not because I don't think he can do it better than I can, perhaps, but because this is my fight my race."
Carton has gone for the day," hanging it up again with a bang. "Call up the Record now," advised Craig, disconnecting the recording instrument he had brought. "See what the editor has to say." "This is the District Attorney's office," said Carton a moment later when he got the number. "You just called me." "I called you?" asked the editor, non-plussed. "About a rumour current in Wall Street."
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