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I do not wish you to be injured serving me " She lowered her voice. "But if there is any way in which you can help me in in this difficulty I can never be grateful enough. Down-stairs in the safe there is, I believe, a package containing a large sum of money." Mr. Magee's hand closed convulsively in his pocket. "If there is any way possible," said the girl, "I must obtain that package.
Sometime soon I'm going to say to you: 'Whose girl are you? and you're going to look up at me with a little heaven for two in your eyes and say: 'I'm Billy Magee's girl. So before we go any further I must confess everything I must tell you who this Billy Magee is this man you're going to admit you belong to, my dear." "You read the future glibly," she replied.
'No, it was a nice little purse I had had for a long time, but thanks to your husband there was nothing in it. An Irish story of Magee's concerns an Orange clergyman in Fermanagh, who asked leave to preach a sermon by Magee. Now, this clergyman, who was an ambitious man, was rather ashamed of his mother, and would not let her live at the parsonage, but had taken lodgings for her in the town.
His tone was that of one correcting a child. He took Mr. Magee's arm in a grip which recalled to that gentleman a fact the muckraking stories always dwelt on how this Cargan had, in the old days, "put away his man" in many shady corners of a great city. "Come over here," said Cargan. He led the way to a window. Over his shoulder Magee noted the troubled eyes of Miss Norton following. "Sit down.
Trudging through the snow, he soon sighted the room of Professor Bolton. And as he did so, a little shiver that was not due to atmospheric conditions ran down his spine. For one of the professor's windows stood wide open, bidding a welcome to the mountain storm. Peters had spoken the truth. Once more that tight little, right little package was within Mr. Magee's ken.
For this opinion, the candid reader will not fail to perceive the strongest evidence produced, in a most important recent publication, Dr Magee's Discourses, &c. on the Atonement.
Peters shortly bade the company good-by for the night, with the warmly expressed hope in Mr. Magee's ear that there would be no further additions to the circle in the near future. When he had started off through the snow for his shack, Mr. Cargan took out his watch. "You've been pretty kind to us poor wanderers already," he said. "I got one more favor to ask. I come up here to see Mr. Bland.
"You are very kind," she said. "I hardly expected to be here the night through. It is rather cold, but I am sure we have rugs and coats enough." Mr. Magee's duty was clear. "I'll build you a fire," he announced. The girl seemed distressed at the thought. "No, I couldn't let you," she said. "I am sure it isn't necessary. I will say good night now." "Good night. If there is anything I can do "
His breath came with a noisy quickness that brought the fact of his breathing insistently to Magee's mind. "I never knew how it was played," he said. Something told Mr. Magee that he ought to rise and drag Kendrick away from that table. Why? He did not know. Still, it ought to be done. But the look in Kendrick's eyes showed clearly that the proverbial wild horses could not do it then.
The late Lord Derby said that the most eloquent speech he ever heard in or out of the House of Lords was Magee's speech on the Church Act, the peroration of which quoting from memory after many years ran: 'My Lords, I will not, I cannot, and I dare not vote for that most unhallowed bill which lies on your Lordships' table. Have all Magee stories been told? I am afraid so.
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