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It was but a few minutes after Edwin had taken his seat until the meeting was dismissed, and the people scattered out over the grounds, a few to the pump, some to the boarding-house entrance, and others to their private tents. Edwin followed the largest crowd, for Mr. Hass had left him as soon as the meeting was dismissed, and he went to the boarding-house for his supper.
'Why does she look at me like that? she said fiercely below her breath. 'I am glad I dismissed her, and I am glad she cried! Why should not some one else suffer as well as I? 'You are not really tiresome, Jane, she said after dinner, as the two sat together on a couch.
So she held the furious rebel until the clock pointed to the hour of closing, and then with the cold words, "You may go, now," she dismissed her, half expecting the girl would linger and penitently ask her forgiveness; when she meant to be very firm and make her see the error of her ways, but at last to accept her apology and let the matter drop.
"It seems very strange, but I am glad you spoke without waiting any longer. It is better the subject should be dismissed. I appreciate all you say; you do me great honor. But I have decided not to marry." "Oh, don't say that!" cried Newman, in a tone absolutely naif from its pleading and caressing cadence. She had turned away, and it made her stop a moment with her back to him.
It was about this time circumstances made him acquainted with Phoebe Dale. Her intermediate history I will dispose of in fewer words than it deserves. Her ruin, Mr. Reginald Falcon, was dismissed from his club, for marking high cards on the back with his nail.
"Good," he commented, when I had told how the Inspector was dismissed. "But at least, Knox, he has a working theory, to which he sticks like an express to the main line, whereas I find myself constantly called upon to readjust my perspective. Directly I can enjoy freedom of movement, however, I shall know whether my hypothesis is a house of cards or a serviceable structure." "Your hypothesis?"
Gregory suggested," Pauline went on timidly, "and she would be glad to have me come at any time, sir." Warren's expression did not change. "You mean that Mrs. Gregory dismissed you?" he suggested. "Yes, sir!" said Pauline with a sniff. "She paid me for " "Then I should make an arrangement with Mrs. Prince, by all means!" Warren said evenly. But a deathlike terror convulsed his heart.
Unless he hung around for two or three days he couldn't very well be certain I wasn't somewhere on the ranch." Save as a matter of curiosity, however, the whole affair lay too far in the past to be of the least importance now, and it was soon dismissed.
Naturally, Peter knew of this extraordinary system of service in the South; nevertheless he was shocked at its implications. "Captain," suggested Peter, "wouldn't you find it to your own interest to give old Rose a full cash payment for her services and allow her to buy her own things?" The Captain dismissed the subject with a wave of his hand.
If you fail, we will lay before the superintendent and the commandant of cadets all the evidence that we have against you, including your own confession. You will then have to face a general court-martial and be dismissed from the service in the deepest disgrace that can come to a cadet." Bert Dodge sank to his knees, holding his clasped hands up before him. "Don't insist on that, gentlemen!
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