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But this evening the evening of the day I had met Gideon there was a girl in church. She was rather at the back, and I didn't see who it was till I was going out. Then she stopped me at the door, and I saw that it was Clare Potter. I knew Clare Potter very slightly, and had never found her interesting.
Nothing pleases me better than to take a nice girl who isn't as well off as I am out and blow her off to a crackerjack dinner. Now, you may have thought a dollar was too much to tip the waiter?" "A dollar is a dollar, isn't it?" said Susan. Gideon laughed. "I used to think so. And most men wouldn't give that much to a waiter.
'I must write to The Times, cried Mr Bloomfield. 'Do you want to get me disbarred? asked Gideon. 'Disbarred! Come, it can't be as bad as that, said his uncle. 'It's a good, honest, Liberal Government that's in, and they would certainly move at my request. Thank God, the days of Tory jobbery are at an end. 'It wouldn't do, Uncle Ned, said Gideon.
Lord and Lady Pinkerton looked at each other, wondering what to believe, then at Jane, wishing she was gone, so that they could ask Clare more about it. Jane said, 'Don't mind me. I don't mind hearing about it. Jane meant to stay. She thought that if she was gone they would persuade Clare she had dreamed it all and that it had been really Gideon after all.
Young Rube had removed the saddle and was in the act of spreading a blanket over the animal's perspiring body. "Where in thunder did that hoss come from?" Gideon demanded to know. "A real beauty, ain't he?" said Rube. "A thoroughbred, sure. An' look at the saddle and bridle. Ain't they just wonderful?" "It's the identical hoss that I seen in One Tree Gulch only a few hours ago," declared Gideon.
"'That's what I said. You deeded this place to Cynthy Marshall, didn't ye? Well, she has deeded it to me. 'Tain't much of a husband that don't have his property in his own name. "'But see here, Gideon, you know why I deeded this property. You know how matters have come out. Between brothers in such a case there should be no such thing as stickin' to the letter of deeds.
We shall have a better supper than has Lord Chaires." Gideon went out on the flat roof with his daughter. "Tafet tells me," said he, when they were alone, "that Thou art always in the house. Why is this? Thou shouldst look at least on the garden." "I am afraid," whispered Sarah. "Why be afraid of thy own garden? Here Thou art mistress, a great lady." "Once I went out in the daytime.
"I think even John feels that now and then," she said, and a moment afterward, "Is it possible, do you suppose, that we shall find when it is too late that this Gideon Vetch is the stone that the builders rejected? A ridiculous fancy, and yet who knows, it might turn out to be true. Stranger things have happened than that!" "It may be. One never can tell." Then he laughed with tolerant affection.
And when the men of the city arose early in the morning, behold, the altar of Baal was cast down, and the grove was cut down that was by it, and the second bullock was offered upon the altar that was built. And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they enquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.
Gideon shut the window, and addressing Master Tobias and me, said "The deuce must be in the man to start off in such horrible weather as this. I could hardly turn out a wolf on such a day as this. However, it is their business, not mine. I seem to remember that young man's face, and his servant's too. Now let us drink! Maître Tobie, your health!"
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