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I've paid these for this year, but naturally I won't do it again. And would it be worth anybody else's while to do it? Yours, for example?" "Have you had any explanations with the other Directors?" the Broker asked, thoughtfully. "Explanations no," Thorpe told him. "But that's all right. The Marquis has been taken care of, and so has Plowden. They're game to agree to anything.
Too old for a lover, unless you could make him in love with some one else's wife, as he has one of his own already. But that wouldn't do." The actor looked as if he did not know why it would not do, but he said, "He could have a daughter." "Yes, and his daughter could have a lover. I had thought of something of that kind, and of bringing in their ill-fated passion as an element of the tragedy.
"You know what I mean," she said. "You are afraid of Doris seeing you. That's plain enough. Is it so terrible a thing, after all? If she can't stand the sight of your face, you're better off without her." "It's easy to be philosophic about some one else's troubles," Hollister muttered. "You can be off with one love and be reasonably sure of another before long. I can't.
Of course the hotel didn't approve of her; no hotel could be expected to approve of a situation which it so much enjoyed. Besides Claire was lawless; she kept her own rules, but she broke everybody else's. She never sought a chaperon or accepted some older woman's sheltering presence; she never sat in the ladies' salon or went to tea with the chaplain's wife.
No more unlikely place for making money could be imagined, yet starting in without a cent, they contrived to turn and twist and trade, until they had transferred to their pockets a portion of the funds which were in some one else's. The Rebels, of course, got nine out of every ten dollars there was in the prison, but these middle men contrived to have a little of it stick to their fingers.
Are you alone?" returned the lady. Emilia did not answer. "What extraordinary expedition are you making? But, tell me one thing: are you here of your own accord, or at somebody else's bidding?" Impatient at the prospect of a continuation of silences, Lady Charlotte added, "Come with me." Emilia seemed to be refusing.
I'm afraid I will lose my business." "Is it a good business?" "Yes. It's always been able to give me a good livin', nothin' more, but it's all I got, and I don't know nothin' else to do. If I lose it I'll have to go into some one else's laundry, and it's hard after fifteen years " He looked down with a catch in his voice. "How much will it take to put you on your feet?"
One can often convince one's self quite thoroughly of ideas one did not really believe in by this method of suggestion; but if we are to control our own morals we wish to control them not by some one else's ideals but by our own.
The way things have been going with you, if we don't destroy it, it is likely to walk off into somebody else's pocket and cause more trouble." So we burned it, and then the telephone rang and said the taxi was there. "I'll get my coat and be ready in a jiffey," he said, "and maybe we can smuggle you into the house and no one the wiser. We'll try anyhow."
Whereupon, Bertha, having delivered herself, even more to her own astonishment than to any one else's, turned at the first corner and walked rapidly away, leaving her embarrassed sister to placate the wrathful Dorcas in any way her gentle heart suggested. "Please forscuse me.
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