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I hadn't an idea that a man alive could be such a villain as you turned out to be." "You'd be a fine fellow, Wingate," Phipps said, with a touch of his old cynicism, "if you weren't always sheering off towards the melodramatic. The girl wanted to see life, she attracted me, and I showed it to her. I'd have done the right thing by her if she hadn't behaved like an hysterical idiot."
"I wonder what possessed Cap'n Jeth to go over to the cemetery in the mornin'. He almost always goes there Sunday afternoons his wife's buried there but he generally goes to church in the mornin'." Galusha remembered having heard the light keeper refer to the exchange of preachers. Miss Phipps nodded. "Oh, yes," she said, "that explains it, of course.
Belcher that he was about to start for New York on business, Phipps took him and his trunk on a drive of twenty miles, to the northern terminus of a railroad line which, with his connections, would bear him to the city of his hopes.
The very fact that he knew he was being watched with a certain amount of anxiety stiffened his impulse to retain them. "A very fair offer, Mr. Phipps, I have no doubt," he said at last. "On the other hand, I am not a seller." "Not a seller? Not at a quarter premium?" "Nor a half," Wingate replied, "nor, as a matter of fact, a hundred per cent. premium. You see, I don't trust you, Phipps.
Where every one is so particular. Fancy, SLEEPING away from home. It's dreadful If it gets about it spells ruin for her." "Ruin," said Widgery. "No man would marry a girl like that," said Phipps. "It must be hushed up," said Dangle. "It always seems to me that life is made up of individuals, of individual cases. We must weigh each person against his or her circumstances.
Of course Galusha would. "I should be very glad to make you a present of them, Cousin Gussie," he said, listlessly. "I do not care for them, really." "I don't doubt that, but you won't do anything of the kind. As a matter of fact, your buying those shares and taking them out of the market was a mighty good thing for us. That Trust Company crowd was getting anxious, so the Phipps woman says.
"I love to have a man who really amounts to something tell me about his life and work." "Mr. Peter Phipps, for instance?" he suggested. "Didn't I see you lunching here with him the other day?" She looked across the table, towards where Phipps was sitting hand in hand with a young lady in blue, and apparently being very entertaining. Miss Flossie caught a glimpse of Wingate's expression.
I know, Ned Phipps, who knelt against me, and I am sure made me behave much worse than I should have done without him, whispered that he thought the Bishop was a 'guy', and I certainly remember thinking that Mr. Prendergast looked much more dignified with his plain white surplice and black hair.
"I guess it will hold. I'll go up first to see that the rope is secure; then the rest of you can follow me up." "Why, I couldn't climb that rope to save my life," objected Mr. Phipps. "I'll fix it so you can. I'll tie some knots in it, then climbing will be easy." With that Tad once more swung clear of the floor and went up hand over hand with amazing rapidity.
Bangs sighed thankfully. The sacrifice of the brown derby had not been in vain. An hour or so later when Martha Phipps, looking out of her dining room window, saw her boarder enter the front gate, his personal appearance caused her to utter a startled exclamation. Primmie came running from the kitchen. "What's the matter, Miss Martha?" she demanded. "Eh! My savin' soul!" Mr.