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Besides, William W. Kolderup desired the marriage. The two people whom he loved most in this world were sure of a fortune from him, without taking into consideration whether Phina cared for Godfrey, or Godfrey cared for Phina. It would also simplify the bookkeeping of the commercial house. Ever since their births an account had been opened for the boy, another for the girl.
Half an hour later the breeze came up to them. "Shall I get up the sail, Godfrey?" Godfrey did not reply for a minute or two. "Yes, I think we may as well, Luka. Whether we go fast or slow these fellows will be able to send word on shore, and we may as well tire them a bit." The sails were hoisted, Godfrey took the sheet and laid in his paddle.
But when he heard Leonard and Ruth, in greeting the bride's mother, jointly repeat the sentiment as their own, he was, for a moment, nearly as happy as Mrs. Morris. "Such a pity Godfrey had to be away!" said Mrs. Morris. It was the only pity she chose to emphasize. Godfrey was on distant seas. The north-bound mid-afternoon express bore away the bridal pair for a week's absence.
I enter upon my duties next Monday morning. I hope to come near paying my own way, and before very long to help father. I know you will be disappointed, Uncle Godfrey, and I hope you won't think I don't appreciate your kind offer, but I think it would be selfish in me to accept it. Please do forgive me, and believe me to be Your affectionate nephew, GRANT THORNTON."
"You remember I worked it backward in that National City Bank case." Godfrey nodded. "I remember the signature disappeared from old Murgatroyd's check." "Backward or forward, it don't make no difference. It all depends on the acid." "What acid?" "Ah," chuckled Jemmy, "you'd like to know, wouldn't you? You never will. But it all depends on it.
She is going to board near the school where Godfrey is placed." "Shall I see her?" "She thinks it best not to risk coming into the chamber, lest she should carry the infection to Godfrey." "I suppose that is only prudent," returned the sick man, but in his heart he wished that his wife had shown less prudence, and a little more feeling for him. "Have you thought of any nurse?" he asked.
The latter looked at him an instant; then, with a low exclamation, sprang to his feet, and snapped open the bag in which I had stowed the packets Jemmy had given me. He ripped one of them open, and disclosed, not ten thousand dollars in currency, but a neat bundle of blank paper! Jemmy was looking at him now, and his face was alight with triumph. "How did you know I was there?" Godfrey demanded.
Since they were not taken, it follows, doesn't it, that he was killed before he had a chance at the drawer? Perhaps he never saw the cabinet. He must have been killed out there in the ante-room, a few minutes after Parks left." "And how about Vantine?" Godfrey asked. "I don't know," I said, helplessly.
Thus it does no harm to the general impression, when you come to be sensible that many of the monuments are ridiculous, and commemorate a mob of people who are mostly forgotten in their graves, and few of whom ever deserved any better boon from posterity. You acknowledge the force of Sir Godfrey Kneller's objection to being buried in Westminster Abbey, because "they do bury fools there!"
"You remember, Lester, what happened the other time that light failed to appear. A man was murdered!" The darkness into which I stared seemed suddenly to grow threatening and sinister, full of vague terrors. Even Simmonds grew uneasy, and I could feel his arm twitching. Godfrey put his foot on the ladder, and began to descend. Simmonds and I followed him silently.
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