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Ballinger and Geary practiced law in New York, having married sisters who refused to live elsewhere. Sally had married one of their Harvard friends and dwelt in Boston. Maria alone had wed an indigenous Californian, an Abbott of Alta in the county of San Mateo, and lived the year round in that old and exclusive borough.
I on'y knew one miser all the years I was at sea. Thomas Geary 'is name was, and we was shipmates aboard the barque Grenada, homeward bound from Sydney to London. Thomas was a man that was getting into years; sixty, I think 'e was, and old enough to know better. 'E'd been saving 'ard for over forty years, and as near as we could make out 'e was worth a matter o' six 'undered pounds.
But their appeal had been denied them, and instead of Surveyor-General Calhoun, Mr. Geary, of Pennsylvania, had been appointed. That great party, of which the President was the official head, was convulsed with such internal feuds and contentions, consequent on these very Kansas troubles, as threatened its existence.
Tell her to look at the people in good standing who peddle dirt. Tell her to look at the papers. Tell her to tell the world that it's better any day to collect than to peddle dirt. Tell her that when her father, up on his great smelly throne, drives around the corner of Powell and Geary that dressed-up folk needn't disdain him so much. He's a sermon.
There was nothing to be apprehended by the socially ambitious, the proud housewives, or those prudent dames whose amours were conducted with such secrecy that they might too easily be supplanted by a predatory coquette. The girls drew little unconscious sighs of relief. Sally Ballinger vowed she would become her intimate friend, Sibyl Geary that she would copy her gowns. Mrs. Abbott succumbed.
Next, Vandover had tried to borrow some money of Charlie Geary. Geary had told him that he could not afford as much as Vandover needed. Then Vandover became enraged. He had long since seen that Geary had practically swindled him out of his block in the Mission, and at that very moment the huge boot and shoe "concern" was completing the factory built upon the ground that Vandover had once owned.
"Thank you very much, Mister Geary. It's very good of you, I'm sure. I'll be around at noon sure." When Geary was left alone, he walked slowly to his window, and stood there a moment looking aimlessly down into the street, shaking his head repeatedly, astonished at the degradation of his old-time chum.
And yet the mental power, the personal magnetism of Richard Gessner made itself felt almost before he had uttered a single word. "Will you take a seat, Mr. Kennedy I am dining in the city to-night and my time is brief. Mr. Geary, I think, has spoken to you of my intentions."
"Take Jessiky as your maid-of-all-work, on trial," he smiled at his wife over Marjorie's bowed head, "an' ef she's a good little worker, we'll keep her fer the present." "My stars!" said Mrs. Geary, and then sat in helpless contemplation of these surprising events.
Lieutenant Colonel JOHN SPAULDING, Louisville, Kentucky troops. Captain TIMOTHY O'LEARY, Louisville, Kentucky troops. Captain JOHN GEARY, Lexington, Kentucky troops. Lieutenant PATK J. TYRRELL. Louisville, Kentucky troops. Lieutenant MICH'L BOLAND, Louisville, Kentucky troops.
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