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"Well, Cousin Rebecca," he began, slowly, "I'm lookin' fer a partner." He paused, considering how to proceed. The spinster let her hands drop in speechless wonder. The audacity of the man! He to her a proposal! At her age! From him! Fortunately the next few words disclosed her error, and she blushed for it as she lifted her work again, turning nearer the window as if for better light.
"And the price for all these things was low?" we asked, quite amazed at the variety that our partner had selected. "So low that over two thirds of the money that we subscribed now awaits our order at the Melbourne bank." And to confirm his words, Smith pulled from his bosom a small pouch that contained a certificate of deposit.
In short, the whole scene, though rude, was so affecting, that the gentle partner of my heart wept over it, and my father himself could not refrain from dropping a tear.
And I fancied there was love motherly love in the eyes that followed through the graceful mazes of her dancing, the bonny English rose. Guy and his partner sat down beside us.
They left at the table a man in evening dress who smoked a big cigar and seemed not to be jealous of the two dancers. Some one among the spectators about Kedzie said that the woman was Zada L'Etoile, and her partner was Haviland Devoe.
The "Man in the Club Window" says: "I have known a case where a distinguished-looking young man, having declined the lady's invitation to dance, but being pressed by, I can't make up the lancers without you, somewhat reluctantly accepted, performed his part so well that his partner was quite eprise with him, and even ventured on a little flirtation.
'It is really worse to have it unknown when you are compelled to be his partner in sharing the secret, and feel as if it were a dreadful doll you conceal for fear that everybody will laugh at its face. She resumed her seriousness: 'I find it so hard to be vexed with him and really really like him. For he is a good man; but he will not let one shake him off.
When Cloete dines there, the beggar puts on a dress suit; little woman liked it; . . . Mr. Cloete, my husband's partner; such a clever man, man of the world, so amusing! . . . When he dines there and they are alone: Oh, Mr. Cloete, I wish George would do something to improve our prospects.
He gave Quisanté just as good counsel, and with just as little result. Then he tried Quisanté's wife and found in her what he thought a hardness or an insensibility, or, if that were an unjust view, a sort of fatalism which forbade her to seek to interfere, and reduced her to being a spectator of her husband's doings and destiny rather than a partner in them. "How can he lie by now?" she asked.
Thomas Jeavons, of Liverpool, having been informed of my desire, made inquiries, and found the man likely to suit me. He furnished him with a letter of introduction to me, which he presented one day at the works. The young man became my worthy partner, Holbrook Gaskell. He had served his time with Yates and Cox, iron merchants, of Liverpool.
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