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"I got up in the middle of the night before the collision, and there was no light in the cabin, and I put on whatever came first, meaning to come back and dress afterwards when it got light." "Stays!" said Mr. Meeson, desperately. "Forgive me for mentioning them, but surely you put on your stays? One could write on them, you know." "I am very sorry, Mr.
Lord Fleetwood studied him half a minute, as if measuring and discarding a suspicion of the young philosopher's possible weakness under temptation. Sir Meeson Corby accompanied the oddly assorted couple through the town and a short way along the road to the mountain, for the sake of quieting his conscience upon the subject of his leaving them together.
Augusta looked, and then slowly crumpled up the cheque in her hand. "If I understand, Mr. Meeson," she said, "you have sold the two rights of translation of my book, which you persuaded me to leave in your hands, for £14; out of which I am to receive £3 1s.?" "Yes, Miss Smithers. Will you be so kind as to sign the receipt; the fact is that I have a good deal of business to attend to." "No, Mr.
'It would have gone long before this for a night's lodging. Sir Meeson heard him, and instantly urged Lord Fleetwood not to think of dismissing his man Francis. 'I beg it, Fleetwood! I beg you to take the man. Her ladyship will receive me badly, ring or no ring, if she hears of your being left alone. I really can't present myself. I shall not go, not go. I say no. 'Stay, then, said Fleetwood.
Meeson," she answered, "but I did not put any on." "Not a cuff or a collar?" he said, catching at a last straw of hope. Augusta shook her head sadly. "Then there is an end of it!" groaned Mr. Meeson. "Eustace must lose the money. Poor lad! poor lad! I have behaved very badly to him."
I should never have thought that any woman was capable of such a sacrifice for for a comparative stranger." Then came another awkward pause. "Well, Mr. Meeson," said Augusta, at last rising brusquely from her chair, "the document belongs to you, and so I suppose that you had better see it.
Meeson, feebly: a proposition that Augusta seconded heartily enough.
Run, tell Mr. Woodseer I wish him to join us, Livia said, and Sir Meeson had to thank his tramp for a second indignity. He protested, he simulated remonstrance, he had to go, really feeling a sickness.
If I had not been so foolish as to enter into that agreement with Messrs. Meeson, I could have got the money by selling my new book easily enough; and I should have been able to take Jeannie abroad, and I believe that she would have lived at least I hoped so. But now it is finished, and cannot be helped." "I wish I had known," blundered Eustace, "I could have lent you the money.
Meeson dead was not so bad as Mr. Meeson in the animated flesh. Presently the night set in once more, and, worn out with all that she had gone through, Augusta said her prayers and went to sleep with little Dick locked fast in her arms.
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