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"Couldn't you buy some, then?" said Molly, smoothing her crumpled morning-glories, with a sigh. "Who ever heard of a fellow having any money left the last day of the month?" demanded Gus, severely. "Or girls either. I spent all mine in ribbon and paper for my baskets, and now they are of no use. It's a shame!" lamented Jill, while Merry began to thin out her full baskets to fill the empty ones.
It was necessary to belt it down from a small to a larger pulley to run the generator at a slower speed, which was 1200 a minute. Then came the boxing in, the wiring to the house, and the making of connections with the wiring to the house after the town company's service was dispensed with, and it was a proud moment when Gus turned on the first bulb and got a full and brilliant glare. Mr.
She paused, and then continued abruptly, with her eyes on his face: "I think Gus Trenor spoke to you once about having made some money for me in stocks." She waited, and Rosedale, congested with embarrassment, muttered that he remembered something of the kind. "He made about nine thousand dollars," Lily pursued, in the same tone of eager communicativeness.
"They are enemies and they intend to play me foul." "How can I drink with my hands tied behind me?" he asked. "We will hold the glass for you," said another, and Dick felt almost sure it was Gus Pender who uttered the words. "It's the whole Flapp crowd," he mused. "I'm in a pickle and no mistake. I suppose they'll half kill me before they let me go." "Will you drink?" asked another.
Derry'll be hum, and sendin' fer me. Then we'll all be earnin' excep' Gus." At the end of the week Amarilly eagerly went to deliver the washings at the rectory and Miss King's, but in both instances she was doomed to disappointment, as her friends were not in. "I'll go to church and see 'em," she resolved.
Though a life of lonely, ill- paid toil would have been better for Edith than marriage to Gus, he was missing the one golden opportunity of his life, when he thought of Edith Allen in other character than his wife. God uses instruments, and she alone could give him a chance of being a man among men. In his meditated baseness toward her, he aimed a fatal blow at his own life.
"You're devilish scrupulous, Gus," said Bob, who, if left to himself, would have stuck in the names of the heathen gods and goddesses, or borrowed his directors from the Ossianic chronicles, rather than have delayed the prospectus. "Where the mischief are we to find the men? I can think of no others likely to go the whole hog; can you?"
I've pondered the situation until my brain is addled like a last year's nest egg, and finally I've come to you as a last resort. If you can't cook up an airtight scheme, then there is no help; and I'm going to forget the Bavarian and attend to some business more profitable and less debilitating." "There must be an out, Gus. It's too good a thing to abandon.
You just let us handle the bonds and coupons and them trifles. We'll invest 'em for you. We'll be yours and 'Livia's financial managers. As for our wages, maybe they'll seem a little high, but that's easy arranged. And "Gus interrupted then. 'Oh, that's all settled, he says. 'Olivia and I have planned all that. When we're married we shall devote our lives to social work to settlement work.
"Wal, Pan, I was shore in on thet," said Blink, gripping Pan's arm. "Say, you called 'em flat. Made 'em swaller a hell of a lot," added Gus, with a hard note in his voice. "When it come down to hard pan they wasn't there." "Pan, you remember me tellin' you aboot Purcell, who jumped my claim with young Hardman?" queried Blinky.
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