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She must be just coming back from church. When he was at home Mr. Pryor went to church himself, and watched her saying her little prayers. This assumption of the Pryor-Barr liabilities would be a serious check to the fortune he was building up for her; he set his jaw angrily at the thought, but of course it couldn't be helped.
It is only that I have shouldered the debts of the old Pryor-Barr Co., Limited. You know my grandfather organized it, and my father was president of it, and I served my 'prenticeship to business in it." "But I thought," she said, puzzled, "you went out of it long ago, before before " "The flood? Yes, my dear, I did. I've only been a silent partner for years and that in a very small way.
"Now that you have undertaken all this extra business of the Pryor-Barr people, you owe it to your stockholders to be careful of your health," she told him, refusing to notice his smile when he solemnly agreed with her. "What would happen to the Company if anything happened to you?" she insisted, rubbing her soft cheek against his. "Ruin, of course." But she would not laugh.
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