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I needn't tell you what I said; but the consequence of it was that she told me she had just concluded a business transaction that was the expression she used by which she had promised to marry a man whom she would not name. Since that time, I have studied the situation rather deeply, with the result that I came to the conclusion you were the man to whom she referred.
Here's Dick Thatcher. How are you, Dick? It's a year of Sundays that I haven't seen you. This is er a friend of mine, Thatcher, you needn't mention that you've seen us." And Fitzhugh stumbled painfully over the recollection that we were incognito, and became silent in confusion. "We needn't be strangers to Mr. Thatcher," I laughed. "My name is Wilton. Of course you won't mention our business."
"I don't want to be blown up by nitro-glycerine." "You needn't get too close," returned Mr. Pertell. "I just want the spouting well as a background." "It will be all right if you keep about thirty feet back," said one of the well borers. "How do you shoot a well?" asked Paul, while Russ was getting ready his camera. "By using nitro-glycerine," was the answer.
He could venture now to be persuasive and urgent, and his father yielded with more readiness than he had calculated on. "I don't care about the mill," he said at last, with a sort of angry compliance. "I've had an infernal deal of bother lately about the mill. Let them pay me for my improvements, that's all. But there's one thing you needn't ask me.
"Yes, I see ah! here is one of them," said Mr Sharp, drawing an old shoe out of a corner; "you don't require to look for the other, I've got it here," he added, drawing its fellow from his pocket. Jones stood aghast. "Look here, Jones," said Mr Sharp, gazing sternly into the culprit's face, "you needn't trouble yourself to deny the theft.
"What do you mean? asks George. . . Wrecking it could be managed with perfect safety, goes on Cloete your brother would then put in his share of insurance money. Needn't tell him exactly what for. He thinks you're the smartest business man that ever lived.
"Society owes me a living and, by God, it's got to pay it to me." It was an oft-repeated, widely held assertion, whether fallacious or not each may determine for himself. "I'm afraid," said the woman. "You needn't be; nothing can be worse than this hell." He kissed her fiercely. Albeit she was thin and haggard she was beautiful to him. Then he bent over his little girl.
"If it don't show it don't matter," Bella was accustomed to say. Agnetta paused to rest after about two minutes. "Bella won't have nothing of this sort to do after she's married," she said. "Charlie says she needn't stir a finger, not unless she likes. She'll be able to sit with her hands before her just like a lady." "I shouldn't care about being a lady if that's what I had to do," said Lilac.
"I'd have married Tessibel Skinner long ago, if she'd consented." "Forrie, dear, you wouldn't! You couldn't! Especially now! Oh, darling, you're all I've got in the world.... Can't you see it would break my heart?" "You needn't worry about it, sister mine." A sad shake of his head emphasized his reply. "Tess won't marry me. She knows I love her and want to care for her, but she won't let me.
Tell me I'm old enough to be your mother, and you must know by this time that I'm your friend have you any resources at all beyond ?" She made ever so slight a motion of her hand toward the hidden pawn ticket. "No," said Paul, with his sure tact and swiftly working imagination. "I had just come to an end of them. It's a silly story of losses and what-not I needn't bother you with it.
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