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"Go into one of the stores, and make somebody sell you one. Pay anything I don't care." So Montague went back, and entered a leather-goods store, where he saw several cane-seated chairs. He was free to laugh then all he pleased; and he explained the situation to one of the clerks, who demurred at five dollars, but finally consented for ten dollars to take the risk of displeasing his employer.
I have no ties no duties " He interrupted her. "You have your husband " he said. And she cried out in sudden fury "My husband!" "Has no one ever told you about my husband?" she asked, after a pause. "No one," he said. "Well, ask them!" she exclaimed. "Meantime, take my word for it I owe nothing to my husband." Montague sat staring into the fire. "But consider my own case," he said.
His father had his fame here, anyway a man who smoked two hundred cigarettes a week, who could give tips, and run accounts for ever! To his tobacconist a hero! Even that was some distinction to inherit! "I pay cash," he said; "how much?" "To his son, sir, and cash ten and six. I shall never forget Mr. Montague Dartie. I've known him stand talkin' to me half an hour.
"I've been hearing about you since I met you last." "In what way?" asked Montague. "I understand that you have gone with the Mississippi Steel Company," said Gamble. "After a fashion," the other assented. "You want to be careful you are dealing with a smooth crowd! Smoother even than the men in the Trust, I fancy."
I spoke on't to Josiah, but he sez: "The widder Montague; I don't remember her. Is she any relation of old Ike Montague of North Loontown?" But I sez: "She wuzn't a widder for any length of time. She died of love and so did her pardner, Romeo Montague." "Well," said Josiah, "that shows they wuz both sap heads.
Colonel Kelmscott of Tilgate wants to know where two young men, named Guy and Cyril Waring, keep their banking account, if any; and, as soon as he knows, he wishes to pay in a substantial sum, quite privately, to their credit." Mr. Montague Nevitt bowed a bow of assent; without the faintest sign of passing recognition.
"And you," demanded Montague; "you are getting money for this?" Oliver smiled a long and inscrutable smile. "You don't imagine that I'm in love with him, I trust. I thought you'd be interested to see the game, that's why I introduced him." "That's all very well," said the other. "But you have no right to inflict such a man upon Alice." "Oh, stuff!" said Oliver.
By the time that Montague's friend arrived, the Colonel was in possession of all the facts, and he promised that he would write in a very few days. And then, after dinner, Montague went upstairs and joined his mother. "I met an old friend of father's this evening," he said. "Who was it?" she asked. "Colonel Cole," he said, and Mrs. Montague looked blank. "Colonel Cole?" she repeated.
Possessed of a private fortune equal to that of any duke, he had not thought it beneath him to accept the place of Cashier of the Excise, and had perfectly understood how to make that place lucrative; but he had recently been ejected from office by Montague, who thought, with good reason, that he was not a man to be trusted.
Among these were Edward Montague, Charles Standish, Hervey Aston, Arthur Upton, "Kangaroo" Cook, Benjamin Constant, Dupin, Casimir Perier, as well as the chief Orleanists. On one occasion, I recollect seeing there George Canning and the celebrated Madame de Stael.
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