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As I told the Canon this afternoon, Lalage will probably be very good for her." "She'll certainly be very good for Lalage." "I'm not saying anything the least derogatory to Miss Pettigrew. Schoolmasters are just the same. So are the heads of colleges. The position tends to develop certain quite trifling defects of character for which Lalage will be an almost certain cure."
Marriot, Scrymgeour and I awarded the tin of Arcadia to Pettigrew, because he alone of the competitors seemed to believe that his dream might be realized. Sometimes I think it is all a dream, and that I did not really murder the waits. Perhaps they are living still.
"Sir?" he responded to the first assistant, who was telling him he ought to spell March with a final e, it being always so spelled in Virginia. The Judge turned for a lengthy good-by, and at its close John went with his preceptor to the school-room, trying, quite in vain, to conceive how Mr. Pettigrew had looked when he was a boy.
Almost any boy could discharge the duties of an entry clerk while it takes peculiar qualities to run a hotel." "I was certainly very fortunate to fall in with you, Mr. Pettigrew." "I expect it will turn out fortunate for me too, Rodney." "When do you want me to start in?" "Next Monday morning. It is now Thursday evening. Mr. Bailey will turn over the hotel to me on Saturday night.
"Oh, but you're such a deucedly keen chap," protests Waldo. Then he swings back to me. "From my attorneys?" "Just came from there," says I. "Odd," says he. "I don't remember having seen you before." "That's right," says I. "You see, Mr. Pettigrew, I'm really representin' the Corrugated Trust and " "Don't know it at all," breaks in Waldo.
'Well, Pettigrew said, 'this is a most remarkable thing; for he, meaning you, 'said to me in this very room, sitting in that very chair, that Alexander was his only brother. I saw that Pettigrew resented your concealing the existence of your brother Henry from him, so I thought the most friendly thing I could do was to tell him that your reticence was doubtless due to the unhappy state of poor Henry's private affairs.
Don't you think it would be a good plan for us to start a business together in New York?" "Would you really be willing to go into business with me?" Jefferson Pettigrew asked this question with so much apparent sincerity that Wheeler was completely deceived. "I've got him dead!" he soliloquized complacently.
"It doesn't seem to have done you much good, as I can see." "Oh, well, I am satisfied. Let me introduce my friend, Mr. Rodney Ropes of New York." "Glad to meet you," said Hector with a jerk of the head. "Rodney, won't you sit inside? I want to sit outide with Hector." "All right, Mr. Pettigrew."
The article and the discussion to which it gave rise agitated me a good deal, and I consulted Pettigrew about the advisability of clearing up the mystery. The writer wrote that he "distinctly saw his arm pass through the apparition and come out at the other side," and indeed I still remember his saying so next morning.
Why, he's a merchant prince o' Pointview grocery business had a girl name o' Lizzie smart and as purty as a wax doll. Dan Pettigrew, the noblest flower o' the young manhood o' Pointview, fell in love with her. No wonder. We were all fond o' Lizzie. They were a han'some couple, an' together about half the time.
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