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Jex and Fluke have returned to their iniquitous allegiance, with six or eight others of lesser calibre, and it is reported and believed that Tubbs and Huffy are ready to go back. It is feared that the University swindle is stronger to-day than it has ever been before." Later-midnight: "It is said that the committee will report the bill back to-morrow.
"Mamma, here is a a person to see you," cried Lillian, rather at a loss how to designate the stranger, whose height and gravity now awed her. "A note from Colonel Daventry, my lady," and with a bow the boy delivered the missive. Scarcely glancing at him, she opened it and read: My Dear Friend, The bearer of this, Paul Jex, has been with me some months and has served me well.
SATURDAY. "Congressmen Jex and Fluke are wavering; it is believed they will desert the execrable bill." MONDAY. "Jex and Fluke have deserted!" THURSDAY. "Tubbs and Huffy left the sinking ship last night" Later on: "Three desertions. The University thieves are getting scared, though they will not own it."
Jex and Fluke have returned to their iniquitous allegiance, with six or eight others of lesser calibre, and it is reported and believed that Tubbs and Huffy are ready to go back. It is feared that the University swindle is stronger to-day than it has ever been before." Later-midnight: "It is said that the committee will report the bill back to-morrow.
He and Mark were staying at a house which possessed super-imposed upon the Silchester tradition a tradition of its own extending over the forty years during which the Reverend William Jex Monkton had been a house master.
Yet everybody in Jex's house called him Jex; and when you looked at that delightful old gentleman himself with his criss-cross white tie and curly white hair, you realized how impossible it was for him to be called anything else except Jex. For the first time since Mark, brooding upon the moonlit quadrangle of St.
SATURDAY. "Congressmen Jex and Fluke are wavering; it is believed they will desert the execrable bill." MONDAY. "Jex and Fluke have deserted!" THURSDAY. "Tubbs and Huffy left the sinking ship last night" Later on: "Three desertions. The University thieves are getting scared, though they will not own it."
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