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He had put in strong men wherever he could find them, but these had come to be very secure in their places, working without very much regard to him since he could not give them very much attention. White and Colfax had become intimate with many of them personally.
If she had not been beautiful, Addison Colfax would not have run away with her. That is certain. He left her a rich widow at five and twenty, mistress of the country place he had bought on the Bellefontaine Road, near St. Louis. And when Mrs. Colfax was not dancing off to the Virginia watering-places, Bellegarde was a gay house. "Jinny," exclaimed her aunt, "how you scared me!
He was a little too airy and light on his feet. He made suggestions which he told Colfax Eugene ought to try in the circulation department. He made suggestions which he thought he might find advisable to try in the advertising department.
Colonel Clark gave him some, and Tom, his tongue loosed by the toddy, others. And the Colonel added to the debt I owed him by suggesting that Major Colfax take me to Virginia and recommend me to a lawyer there. "Nay," cried the Major, "I will do more. I like the lad, for he is modest despite the way you have paraded him.
Adam Colfax had a slight wound in the arm, but his slow cold blood was now at the boiling point. "We've got to force that schooner!" he cried. "We've got to take her, if it has to be done with boarders! We can never get by unless we do it!" But the loss of life even if the attempt were a success, would be terrible. That was apparent to everybody and Henry made a suggestion.
Lincoln rather reluctantly determined to keep his part of the engagement, rather than to disappoint his friends and the audience. Mrs. Lincoln, entering the room and turning to Mr. Colfax, said, in a half laughing, half serious way, "Well, Mr. Lincoln, are you going to the theater with me or not?"
And you will be safer under the protection of the hated Devil of Torn than with your own mighty father, or your royal uncle." "It is said that you never lie, Norman of Torn," spoke the girl, "and I believe you, but tell me why you thus befriend a De Montfort." "It is not for love of your father or your brothers, nor yet hatred of Peter of Colfax, nor neither for any reward whatsoever.
His sense of his coming dignity and standing before the world was almost greater than his sense of the terrifying responsibility which it involved. Colfax was a hard man, he knew, harder even than Summerfield, for he talked less and acted more; but this did not sink into Eugene's consciousness sufficiently to worry him. He fancied he was a strong man, able to hold his own anywhere.
This to the further embarrassment of Stephen and Anne, and the keener enjoyment of Miss Russell. "Was I not right, Mr. Brice?" she demanded. "Why, you are even writing verses to her!" "I scarcely know Miss Carvel," he said, recovering. "And as for writing verse " "You never did such a thing in your life! I can well believe it." Miss Russell made a face in the direction Colfax had taken.
Archie lived in his own house on Colfax Avenue, where he had roomy grounds and a rose garden and a conservatory. His housekeeping was done by three Japanese boys, devoted and resourceful, who were able to manage Archie's dinner parties, to see that he kept his engagements, and to make visitors who stayed at the house so comfortable that they were always loath to go away.
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