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Earwaker's struggle with the editor-in-chief of The Weekly Post and the journalist Kenyon came to its natural close about a month after Godwin Peak's disappearance. Only a vein of obstinacy in his character had kept him so long in a position he knew to be untenable. From the first his sympathy with Mr.
About this period, Miriam seems to have been goaded by a weary restlessness that drove her abroad on any errand or none. She went one morning to visit Kenyon in his studio, whither he had invited her to see a new statue, on which he had staked many hopes, and which was now almost completed in the clay.
Kenyon have laboured hard enough in this venture. Should he guess I bought it, the chances are that he will be stupidly and stubbornly conscientious, and decline to share the fruits of his labours. 'And do you think, Miss Longworth, I am not conscientious enough to refuse? 'Oh, yes; you are conscientious, but you are sensible. Mr. Kenyon isn't. 'I think you are mistaken about that.
Madly sped the latter to the elevator, but, finding Starkey and his crestfallen friend awaiting him there, he turned and dashed down the stairway, his ex-witnesses after him. For a moment there was silence in the office, while Allison recovered breath. Bowing coldly to him, Colonel Kenyon, with Cranston and Forrest, turned to leave the room. "Mr.
"When I find any little thing now that disturbs my serenity, and which I might in former times have magnified into an evil, I think of what Europeans suffer from the vengeance of the Indians, and pass it by in quiet. "I received Mr. Hillard's epitaph on my dear kind friend Kenyon. Thank him in my name for it. Should it be completed in time, Mr. Sumner will be asked to take them over.
"Fairly own to me, then, my friend," rejoined Miriam, whose disturbed mind found a certain relief in this declamation, "that you sculptors are, of necessity, the greatest plagiarists in the world." "I do not own it," said Kenyon, "yet cannot utterly contradict you, as regards the actual state of the art.
For a while, they wandered in that same broad valley which Kenyon had viewed with such delight from the Monte Beni tower.
I have known Mr. Kenyon but for a few hours a day or two at most. The young man pulled his moustache for a moment, adjusted his eyeglass, and then said: 'Very good. I will speak to Kenyon on the subject if you wish it, but I don't say that I can help him. 'I don't ask you to help him. I ask you to help yourself. Here is Mr. Kenyon.
The two went up on deck together, and took a few turns along the promenade, during which promenade the eyes of Kenyon were directed to the occupants of the deckchairs, but he did not see the person whom he sought. Telling Wentworth he was going below for a moment, he left him to continue his walk alone, and on reaching the saloon Kenyon spoke to a stewardess.
In the breadth and space which so delightfully characterize an Italian villa, a dozen guests might have had each his suite of apartments without infringing upon one another's ample precincts. But, so far as Kenyon knew, he was the only visitor beneath Donatello's widely extended roof.
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