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The great window of the partners' room opened to her manipulations it had been carefully left unbolted before her departure for Caxton Hall; and aided cautiously and cleverly by her suffragette helper, Vivie at last found herself or Mr. Michaelis did in the snug little bedroom that knew her chiefly in her male form.
Already boys went out in his employ, already the totals in the bank book had crept to more than seven hundred dollars. He felt within him a glow of pride at the thought of what he had done and would do. "I will be richer than any man in town here," he declared in his pride. "I will be richer than Ed Walker." Saturday night was the great night in Caxton life.
He saw Sue, all in white, radiant and wonderful, coming toward him down a broad stairway, toward him, the newsboy of Caxton, the smuggler of game, the roisterer, the greedy moneygetter. All during those six weeks he had been waiting for this hour when he should sit beside the little grey-clad figure, getting from her the help he wanted in the reconstruction of his life.
The very fact that it is paid for giveth it, as it were, a new form of merit, a verity altogether its own." "Ay, ay," said Nicholas, with a twinkle in his shrewd eyes, "entirely its own." "Indeed so," said Caxton, "and here let us make to ourselves another and a final maxim of guidance. All things that any man will pay for, these we will print, whether true or not, for that doth not concern us.
So reasoned the men of Caxton and paid a kind of court to the boy who sat on the window ledge of the hall while the other boys of the town waited on the sidewalk below. John Telfer was chairman of the mass meeting. He was always chairman of public meetings in Caxton.
So there they stood, the Family of Caxton, all grouping round me, all eager officiously to question, some over-anxious prematurely to criticise. "Violante can't have voluntarily gone off with that horrid count," said my mother; "but perhaps she was deceived, like Eugenia by Mr. Bellamy, in the novel of 'CAMILLA'."
On the other hand, did not Lawyer Cool, the most prudent man in the three kingdoms, Lawyer Cool, who was so methodical that all the clocks in the county were set by his watch, plunge one morning head over heels into a frantic speculation for cultivating the bogs in Ireland? No, Mr. Caxton, you will stay at home and take a soothing preparation I shall send you, of lettuce-leaves and marshmallows.
Come," added I, with sublime compassion, "come, it is not too late, do let me introduce you to my father. I will consent to read French novels all my life if a single chat with Austin Caxton does not send you home with a happier face and lighter heart. Come, let me take you back to dine with us to-day." "I cannot," said Vivian, with some confusion; "I cannot, for this day I leave London.
"Frighten!" answered the Antiquary, "what do you mean? never mind the ladies. Have you seen another ghaist at the Humlock-knowe?" "Na, sir it's no a ghaist this turn," replied Caxton; "but I'm no easy in my mind." "Did you ever hear of any body that was?" answered Oldbuck; "what reason has an old battered powder-puff like you to be easy in your mind, more than all the rest of the world besides?"
PISISTRATUS. "Perfectly clear, sir; but I don't see what it has to do with 'My Novel." MR. CAXTON. "Everything. You have shown us the former in Leonard, when he is sitting in his mother's cottage, or resting from his work by the little fount in Riccabocca's garden.
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