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"Some day when you meet Mr. Prentice, Sylvia," I continued, further, "you will want to be very nice to him, and you might give him something new to parse." Sylvia studied me dubiously; the subject is not one that reassures her. "Because the other day I heard a very great friend of Mr. Prentice's say of him that when he was fifteen he could parse every sentence in Virgil and Homer.
'Oh, good Walter, exclaimed Guy Muschamp, whose spirit rose with the excitement, 'is not this a stirring scene? By St. John of Beverley, what rich armour! what gallant ships! what stately churches! And yet I would wager my basinet to a prentice's flat cap that it is not, for a moment, to be compared to Acre.
There was nothing remotely suggestive of unusual ability or force of character, and I thought as I studied him that the sting of George D. Prentice's bon mot about him was in its acrid truth. Said Mr. Before going any further in this narrative it may be well to state that the nomenclature employed is not used in any odious or disparaging sense.
You can't remember at all, can you, Pete?" A frown lined his forehead while she waited with parted lips, afraid to move lest she start him rambling elsewhere again. "You couldn't say the name of the town where Katie Prentice's father lives!" Bending over him, rigid, tense, it seemed as though she would draw the answer from him through sheer will power.
The host and all the company, used to pot-house quarrels, and perhaps playing into his hands, took little heed; Stephen was dragged insensible into another room, and there the Badgers began hastily to divest him of his prentice's gown, and draw his arms into a buff coat.
"But you'll have to agree to say nothing about it," said Gamble. "It's a delicate matter, you understand." "You may trust me for that," said the other, laughing. So the subject was dropped, and they went on with their ride. Half an hour later Gamble set Montague down, at General Prentice's door, and he bade them farewell and went in. The General was coming down the stairs. "Hello, Allan," he said.
Then he quickly mounted his horse, and presented something to Ivan. "Here, take that!" The fellow dodged his head, thinking he was about to get another buffet. Then the stranger flung a thaler at his feet. "Take that, you dog, for your trouble. And now open the gate!" The horse splashed the 'prentice's eyes and mouth full of mud as the stranger galloped away.
And so the banker contributed the necessary number of millions. The fight centred around the imperilled Trust Company of the Republic. It was recognised by everyone that if Prentice's institution went down, it would mean defeat. Longer and longer grew the line of waiting depositors; the vaults were nearly empty.
The host and all the company, used to pot- house quarrels, and perhaps playing into his hands, took little heed; Stephen was dragged insensible into another room, and there the Badgers began hastily to divest him of his prentice's gown, and draw his arms into a buff coat.
He wandered on until he was clear of London and in the open fields, begging of those he met on the road, but who always replied to his solicitation, "Why don't you go to work, you lazy 'prentice?" for they knew what he was, because he wore a 'prentice's flat cap. Worst of all, night now came on, and Bartlemy was at last compelled to lie down beneath a tree, where he soon fell asleep.
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