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The woman, visited by lawyer's clerk, cried bitterly, and said she and her children had scarcely enough to eat. Lawyer advised Staines to abandon the case, and pay him two pounds fifteen shillings expenses. He did so. "This is damnable," said he. "I must get it out of Pettigrew; by-the-by, he has not been here this two days." He waited another day for Pettigrew, and then wrote to him. No answer.
"It's being done in the best circles," says I. "These calls incog. are gettin' to be bad form. Isn't that right, Mr. Pettigrew?" "If he is a gas man or a plumber," says Waldo, "why doesn't he say so at once?" "There's your cue," says I. "Now come across with the alibi." "I I can't explain just how I happen to be here," says the gent, "but but there are those who can." "Eh?" says I. "Oh-ho!"
"The past is past, Mr. Pettigrew." "Your poor dear mother! So good and honest a woman! So simple and kind and forgiving! To think of it! My dear young man!" he said it manfully "I'm ashamed." "The whole world blushed at dawn the other day, Mr. Pettigrew," I said, "and did it very prettily. That's over now. God knows, who is NOT ashamed of all that came before last Tuesday."
But one night the rain poured in on her bed and gave her a cold, and stained and soaked her poor old patchwork counterpane. Then she got me to compose an excessively polite letter to old Pettigrew, begging him as a favor to perform his legal obligations.
He stumbled weakly back to his chair and sank into it with head bowed, feeling, rather than seeing, the figure of Brigham rise from its seat and step forward with deliberate, unruffled majesty. As the Prophet faced his people they became quite silent, so that the robins could be heard in the Pettigrew peach-trees across the street.
My only doubt is as to whether I shall suit you." "It is true that it takes a smart man to run a hotel, but I think we can do it between us. Now what will you consider a fair salary?" "I leave that to you, Mr. Pettigrew." "Then we will call it a hundred and fifty dollars a month and board." "But, Mr. Pettigrew," said Rodney in surprise, "how can I possibly earn that much?"
Unfortunately, Jimmy won Marriot over, and next day there was a row all round, which resulted in our division into five parties. One day Pettigrew visited us. He brought his Gladstone bag with him, but did not stay over night. He was glad to go; for at first none of us, I am afraid, was very civil to him, though we afterward thawed a little.
"And aspreading himself like a green bay tree, I reckon," said the old man. "I've lopped a few branches off that rascal in my time, and if I have any luck I'll lop off a few more at this meeting.... Ole Maje Pettigrew is still the presiding judge here, ain't he?" "Sure. They can't get rid of him." "A lot of crooks would like to." There was a trace of grimness in the old man's tone.
"This," said the Canon, "is worse, infinitely worse." "I'm not quite sure," said Miss Pettigrew, "about the procedure in these cases. Who elects bishops?" "The Diocesan Synod," I said. "Isn't that right, Canon?" "Yes," he said, gloomily. "And who constitutes the Diocesan Synod?" said Miss Pettigrew. "A lot of parsons," I said.
The hands of one of these children has been represented by Edwards in his "Gleanings of Natural History." A picture of the hand of the father is shown in the fifty-ninth volume of the Philosophical Transactions. Pettigrew mentions a man with warty elongations encasing his whole body. At the parts where friction occurred the points of the elongations were worn off.
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