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"I guess I shall have to get the money for that room in advance," he said, regarding the bag very critically. However he might have been wounded by the doubt of his honesty or his solvency implied in this speech, Lemuel said nothing, but took out his ten-dollar note and handed it to the clerk.

"Well, I guess you got to, now," said 'Manda Grier, "after all my trouble. Hain't she, Mr. Barker?" It flattered Lemuel through and through to be appealed to, but he could not say anything. "Well," said Statira, "if I got to, I got to. But you got to hold the Bible." "You got to put the key in!" cried 'Manda Grier. She sat holding the Bible open toward Statira.

"I don't know but I had," Lemuel assented. But before he could obey, "And Lemuel!" she called down again, "come and light it up here too, please." "I will as soon as I've lit it here," said Lemuel. An imperious order came back. "You will light it here now, please." "All right," assented Lemuel.

She followed him half-way up the second flight of stairs, and stood there while he explored the third story throughout. "There ain't anything there," he reported without looking at her, and was about to pass her on the stairs in going down. "Oh, thank you very much, Lemuel," she said, with fervent gratitude in her voice. She fetched a tremulous sigh. "I suppose it was nothing.

"Of course," he added, "if you think Tad's got a right to boss all hands and the cook, why, I ain't complainin'. Only, if I was a painter doin' a good, high-class trade, and a one-hoss barber tried to dictate to me, I shouldn't bow down and tell him to kick easy as he could. Seems to me I'd kick first. But I'M no boss; I mustn't influence you." Lemuel was indignant.

After tea, when the service was removed, Sir Lemuel challenged Lady Belgrade for a game of chess, and told his daughter to show Mr. Scott those chromoes of the Madonnas of Raphael which had arrived in the last parcel from Paris. Salome flushed to the edges of her dark hair as she arose, glanced shyly at her guest for an instant, and walked to the other end of the drawing-room.

"I take to it as little as ever I did." "Perhaps that is fortunate. But it's going to be rather difficult to suit your tastes. What do you like?" "I like you, cousin Lemuel; you have always been kind to me in your way," said poor Richard, yearning for a glimmer of human warmth and sympathy, and forgetting all the dreariness of his uncared-for childhood.

The rare foresight which had made him the millionaire that he was, warned Sir Lemuel Levison that the mining company in which he had invested his ward's fortune was on the eve of an explosion.

'Oh, Lemuel, you can't mean it! cried Pauline, as she followed him down the path to the main road. 'See if I don't! And he strode away from her, and vaulted over the gate. 'But what will father do? 'Git somebody that's ez loony ez himself. I ain't, was the jeering reply. 'Lemuel, you mustn't go, it will kill father! and Pauline stretched out her hands to him appealingly.

Gang goes on at one in the morning, and another at eight, and another at six P.M." He looked inquiringly at the officer in charge of Lemuel. "Any matches?" asked this officer. "Everything but money," said the other, taking some matches out of his waistcoat pocket.