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As the charter had yet four years to run, and as a renewal now was not necessary to the successful prosecution of its business, it was to have been expected that the bank itself, conscious of its purity and proud of its character, would have withdrawn its application for the present, and demanded the severest scrutiny into all its transactions.
"Is it all a lie, Laura?" he demanded. The justification which she had attempted alone in the night came back to her while she stood there with her hands, which felt like dead things, hanging limp at her sides.
He shook hands with both his friends as if he had not seen them for a fortnight, and then drew one of the Windsor chairs forward, forcing the two companions into something like a social circle. "What's the news?" he demanded. "Anything heard from the new minister yet, Crowe? I suppose, though, the ladies are likely to hear of those matters first." Mrs.
He is jealous of the others." Madame Benet frowned. "He resents the others," she corrected. "I do not blame him. He is a gentleman!" "And the others," demanded Marie; "were they not of the most noble families of Rome?" "I am old and I am ugly," said Bertha, "but to me Anfossi is always as considerate as he is to you who are so beautiful."
Where was I taking him? he demanded to know. And why was I togged out like a bricklayer? He announced that he had had enough of this kind of travelling and insisted on going to a hotel and having a decent meal.
"Why didn't you say so then?" demanded Sanborn. "You have got us into a pretty scrape! That is the reason why Shuffles wouldn't play himself." "Yes, he said it was; but I didn't believe Lowington knew anything about it; I don't see how he could. He walked in here as straight as though he had been sent for, and knew just where to go," said Wilton.
Satterlee knew and approved, and perceived something, at least, of her little ruse. He was a man whose talents fitted him for a larger flock than he had at Coniston, but he possessed neither the graces demanded of city ministers nor the power of pushing himself. Never was a more retiring man.
"So this is the end?" he said in a kind of mutter. "The end of what?" demanded the owner of the watch. "Of all my labors, to me and to what little I have left!" "Fiddlesticks! I am here for no purpose regarding you, my comrade. So far as I am concerned, your secret is as dead as it ever was. I had a fancy that you were living in Paris." "Paris! Gott!
Something in the unnatural demeanor of Grace alarmed her and she nervously dropped her hair brush and rose to her feet. "Gracie! What is It?" Very deliberately the girl thrust the printed sheet Into her mother's hand and in a calm voice demanded: "Tell me, what part did you have in this?"
"How could they have known me at all and thought otherwise?" "The whole scheme of the Consolidated Companies is so unusual that perhaps it isn't to be wondered at. What you consider to be unwarranted is a recognized business method in other corporations." "Why do you tell me this?" Gorham demanded, suddenly.
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