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While looking for Violet Effingham, Phineas encountered Madame Goesler, among a crowd of people who were watching the adventurous embarkation of certain daring spirits in a pleasure-boat.
Violet Effingham had almost come to love Phineas Finn; but she never told her friend that it was so. At one time she had almost made up her mind to give herself and all her wealth to this adventurer. He was a better man, she thought, than Lord Chiltern; and she had come to persuade herself that it was almost imperative on her to take the one or the other.
A girl in the crowd reminded me of my helplessness, touching my wounded arm lightly, and saying, "Are you hungry for more fighting, sir?" "He's a madman," said I. "Let him alone; who heeds what he says?" Friend Phineas did not take my defence in good part. "Mad, am I?" he roared, beating with his fist on his Bible. "You'll know who was mad when you lie howling in hell fire.
"Great Akinetoses! You know Orion," said Phineas. "Mr. Kennedy is not an Akinetos," said Lady Laura. "He holds a very proud position," said Phineas, ironically. "A very proud position indeed," said Lady Laura, in sober earnest. The dinner at Moroni's had been eaten, and Phineas had given an account of the entertainment to Lord Chiltern's sister.
"I'm doing a letter about it, advising men not to shoot too many of the young birds, and showing that they'll have none next year if they do. I had a fellow here just now who knew all about it, and he put down a lot; but I forgot to make him tell me the day of beginning. What's a good place to date from?" Phineas suggested Callender or Stirling. "Stirling's too much of a town, isn't it?
Low, who was very prosaic, and unlikely to be familiar in her mode of address, had fallen into the way of doing it before the election. But she had dropped it, when the Phineas whom she used to know became a member of Parliament. "That's the question; isn't it?" said Phineas. "Of course you'll stick to your work?" "What; to the Bar?" "Yes; to the Bar."
John Haggerty had made $1,000,000 as an auctioneer; William L. Coggeswell had made half as much as a wine importer; Japhet Bishop had rounded out an honest $600,000 from the profits of a hardware store; while Phineas T. Barnum ranks high in the list by virtue of $800,000 accumulated in a business which it is hardly necessary to specify.
"But you do not know my plan; just listen to me." Then Mr. Low did listen, and Phineas explained his plan, saying, of course, nothing of his love for Lady Laura, but giving Mr.
"Of course everything over there seems easy enough now, so easy that Lord Tyrone evidently imagines that the good times are coming back in which governors may govern and not be governed." "You are pretty quiet in Ireland now, I suppose; no martial law, suspension of the habeas corpus, or anything of that kind, just at present?" "No; thank goodness!" said Phineas.
Miss Lady said, "if you really want to save her, I think there's a way." "Not a Orphan's Home?" asked Phineas, lifting one eye from the baby's petticoat where his head had been buried. "No, a clean home of her own. There's no reason why you shouldn't go to work, Mr. Flathers, and support your family decently. I'll take Chick home with me. Myrtella will be glad to have him for a little visit. Mrs.
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