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She poured out her heart's bitterness to Major Duplay, who had come to visit her. "I'm tired of the whole thing, and I hate the Tristrams!" she declared. "It always comes to that in time, Mina, when you mix yourself up in people's affairs." "Wasn't it through you that I began to do it?" The Major declined to argue the question one of some complexity perhaps.
Mr Disney had either learnt what he wanted or had finished amusing himself. Mina did not know which; no more, oddly enough, did Lord Hove. Mr Disney was by the door, saying good-by to the ladies; he would not be coming to the drawing-room. He stopped Mina, who went out last, just before his wife. "We've done all we could, Madame Zabriska," he said. "We must leave him alone, eh?" "I'm afraid so.
Mina Raff gazed at him blankly, this time from under the scallops of the veil. "That is hard to believe," she objected; "he talks to me beautifully about my pictures and a future on the stage. He says that I am going to revolutionize moving pictures " "I don't question that," he put in; "but did Peyton show you how it would be done?" She hesitated, gracefully lowering her potent gaze.
For he ordered a mina, which was before constituted of seventy three drachmas, to contain a hundred, so that, though they paid the same amount, yet the value was less; thus those who had much to pay were benefited, and still their creditors were not cheated.
She was a confidential friend of Carl Beck's sisters, and especially of Mina, who declared that she put her before all the rest of her acquaintance, and thought in her own heart that she was exactly the match for her brother.
An artisan swung by, his tools over his back. Mina saw the suddenly awakened attention with which his head turned to Disney. He slackened pace a moment, and then, after an apparent hesitation, lifted his cap. There was no sign that Disney saw him, save that he touched his hat in almost unconscious acknowledgment.
Scopas was greedy of money; nothing would satisfy his avarice. The other Greek generals of his rank received while in the Egyptian service a mina, or ten dollars a day, under the name of mess-money, beyond the usual military pay; and Scopas claimed and received for his services the large sum of ten minas, or one hundred and twenty-five dollars, a day for mess-money.
"I wonder where all the farmers' wagons are?" marvelled the practical Mina. "Surely they would not stay home Saturday afternoon just for this wind!" Opposite Randall's hardware store her curiosity quite mastered her. "Do stop!" she urged Carroll. "I want to run in and see what's the matter." She was gone but a moment, and returned, her eyes shining with excitement.
"As things stand, I can never go to Blent, I can go only to Blinkhampton." "What does little Mina Zabriska say to that?" "Oh, everything that comes into her head, I suppose, and very volubly." "I like her," said the old lady with emphasis. "Is there such a thing as an absolute liking, Lady Evenswood? What's pleasant at one time is abominable at another.
It seems to me this Mina ought to have some understanding." Claire Morris said: "You can do it." He reflected. "Well, perhaps; I'm your uncle; there are no brothers, and what other family you have is away. It might be useful. Anyhow, she would hear a thing or two about you from me." "Seriously, Lee, you'd only get angry: I can see Mrs.
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