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She fell, at full length, across the green and red medallions of the carpet. Then, with a rush, Mary Ellen and the charwoman, Mrs. Coe, were upon us, and, after them, my brothers. "Lord preserve us!" cried Mary Ellen, bending above her prostrate mistress, "what has come over the poor lady to be took like this?" "Is she dead, do you fink?" asked The Seraph, on a hopeful note.
David Whitehead secured them by the offer of sixty dollars a year Talbot refusing to increase my pay, but not objecting to my advancement. A few months later, before my year was up, another chance to increase my salary came about; Mr. Henry Dittoe, the enterprising man of the village, offering me one hundred and twenty dollars a year to take a position in the dry-goods store of Fink & Dittoe.
She would show Mame that there were husbands as able to use their fists and perhaps to be as tender afterward as any Jack. The holiday promised to be a nominal one with the Finks. Mrs. Fink had the stationary washtubs in the kitchen filled with a two weeks' wash that had been soaking overnight. Mr. Fink sat in his stockinged feet reading a newspaper. Thus Labor Day presaged to speed.
He looked as one who would rest his eyes eyes weary of gazing upon satins, and jewels, and rouge, and carmine, and white arms, and bosoms. "Gee, Kid! You look good to me," he said. "Do I Heiny?" whispered Miss Fink. "Believe me!" replied Heiny, fervently. "It was just a case of swelled head. Forget it, will you? Say, that gang in there to-night why, say, that gang "
"Bruvver," said Pamela at last, "don't you fink it's because us has said our prayers such many many times?" "P'raps," replied Duke. "And you don't fink now what you know what you said about Grandpapa and Grandmamma," said Pamela, her voice faltering. Duke hesitated.
Don' you fink we could ketch one an' hev a fricassee, perfusser?" "I am only going in search of eggs and would, of course, like to catch a flea a penguin-flea, I mean," said the professor; "and I should not advise you to meddle with any of the creatures, Rastus."
He recalled that in the days when he wore trousers he had been Chief Engineer of the Haliotis. "Harland, Mackesy, Noble, Hay, Naughton, Fink, O'Hara, Trumbull." "Here, sir!" The instinct of obedience waked to answer the roll-call of the engine-room. "Below!" They rose and went. "Captain, I'll trouble you for the rest of the men as I want them.
"To-morrow," said C'rew, and the click in her tired voice sounded even above the whirring of the heavy machine, for C'rew's head ached and her back ached, and possibly her heart ached too, for herself and Norma and the child and poor people in one-windowed tenement rooms in general. "Didn't a fink she might go play with little Joey?"
Sylvanus Power was no small thing, and he was conscious that several of the officials of the place, and the man in the box office, had heard every word that had passed. He felt, somehow, curiously ignored. He watched the huge figure of the Westerner, with Elizabeth by his side, disappear down the corridor. Mr. Fink, who had also been looking after them, turned towards him.
"I didn' fink 'e 'ad no frien's wen I come in." It was her way of intimating that what she had done she had not done for money. "All right, take it." She drew out a filthy grey flannel bag from the bosom of her gown and slipped the gold into it. And still she hesitated. She could not understand why so large a sum was offered for such slight services as she had rendered.
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