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"I don't think I was prudent." "Of course not; if you had been, you wouldn't have lost. There are no such things as mistakes in the world. But to look at affairs. Imprimis. Lindsay smashed, house closed, salary stopped." "I suppose so." "Item, private funds gone; owner taken in by the patent-safe game. "Item, dwelling-house standing; so much gain, but
They were talking over plans for the annual election of officers of the Bird Cage Mining Company. Whitford was the largest stockholder and Bromfield owned the next biggest block. They controlled it between them. "Dad, Rob Roy bolted and Mr. Lindsay stopped him before I was thrown." Whitford rose, the color ebbing from his cheeks. "I've always told you that brute was dangerous.
She caught his hand with a swift accession of tenderness towards his youth. "You've done the best you could, Lindsay," she said. "I wish you well, my son, I wish you well." There were tears in her eyes. George Morrow and the girl in red followed Stella into the car, not at all disconcerted at having to get off after the train was in motion. "Don't forget me, Stella," the girl called back.
Andrews, an assembly in which were many well-known and distinguished men, so illustrious a councillor as Sir David Lindsay, the poet and Lyon-King of Scotland, being one of the gentlemen and commoners who decided upon this dramatic and picturesque call.
"What about 'Slim'? Was he shooting when he got it?" The other man shook his head. "This Lindsay man claims he was. I talked wit' a bull afterward. Dey didn't find no gun on 'Slim. The bull says there was no gun-play." "What became of 'Slim's' gun?" "Search me." Durand slammed a big fist exultantly down on the desk. "Better than the way I planned it.
Her intonation went with them and her face; they lived on that. They stirred him, I mean, least of all in the manner of their intention. After the first quarter of an hour, it is to be feared, Lindsay suffered no more apprehensions on the score of emotional hypnotism.
Lindsay and Cicely were awakened in the morning by the drip, drip of the rain on the ivy outside, and the splashing of water as it fell from the spout into the butt underneath. It was an absolutely drenching downpour, coming from a leaden sky that showed no prospect of clearing. The weather had been so glorious during their stay at the Manor that they felt aggrieved at the change.
David would have stayed in Lindsay for a few days, but a certain critical case in Queenslea demanded his speedy return. He shook hands with Eric on the station platform. "Eric, give up that school and come home at once. You can do no good in Lindsay now, and you'll only eat your heart out here." "I must see Kilmeny once more before I leave," was all Eric's answer.
Lindsay a remote hint, that it was best to let her daughters live while they lived. Mrs. Lindsay, however, had more than once stood upon the threshold of another life, having followed a husband and two daughters to the silent tomb: and in her secret heart she suspected the small value of what she had purchased at so great a cost.
A brother in finance of some astuteness, who saw him scramble into his gharry, divined that with regard to a weighty matter in jute-mill shares pending, Lindsay had decided upon a coup, and made his arrangements accordingly.
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