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He explained in a letter to Sir Thomas Overbury, but his tale is as hard to believe as that of John Perry. He went to Charringworth to collect rents, but Lady Campden's tenants were all out harvesting. August seems an odd month for rent-collecting when one thinks of it.

And at the same moment she drew forth her purse, which she had been holding ready in her hand. For a second he thought she was referring to the price of rent-collecting, but the appearance of the purse explained her meaning. "Oh! There's no charge!" he said, in a low voice, seizing a penholder. "But I must pay you something! I can't " "No, you mustn't!"

I gave him the rent-collecting because I thought I would!... Buy! He's no more got a good customer for Calder Street than he's got a good customer for this slop-bowl!" Hilda resented this casual detraction of a being who had so deeply impressed her.

He undertook some rent-collecting, and some evening lectures on elementary science to boys and men. But after a while he began to feel his position false and unsatisfactory. In truth, his opinions were in the main identical with those of the Vicar under whom he was acting. But Mr.

The postoffice, rent-collecting agencies, hospitals, and poor lists, hotel-registers, mortuary records, with many other means of discovery, were unavailingly employed. Investigation at the bank where Mary Dodge drew the hundred pounds failed to disclose any clew to the identity of the depositor or of her movements. Difficulties served to whet Sir Donald's desire for success.

Uncle James's head disappeared for a moment, and then he threw out of the window a stiff yellow mackintosh of great age. It was his rent-collecting mackintosh. It had the excellent quality of matching the chamois gloves. Emanuel thankfully took it. "And what about a cap or something?" he plaintively asked.

"Yes," said Hilda eagerly; "I remember." In her heart she apologized to George Cannon, once more, for having allowed her mother to persuade her, even for a day, that that attempt to buy was merely a trick on his part invented to open negotiations for the rent-collecting. "You know what the net rents are," he went on, "as you've had 'em every month.

Her brief, rare efforts to play the mother were ludicrous. She was too simply honest to acquire stature by standing on her maternal dignity. By a profound instinct she wistfully treated everybody as an equal, as a fellow-creature; even her own daughter. It was not the way to come with credit out of the threatened altercation about rent-collecting. As Hilda offered no reply, Mrs.

He considered himself different from other men. His thoughts would run: "Anybody but me would have knuckled down to Duncalf and remained a shorthand clerk for ever." "Who but me would have had the idea of going to the ball and asking the Countess to dance?... And then that business with the fan!" "Who but me would have had the idea of taking his rent-collecting off Duncalf?"

"Who but me would have had the idea of combining these loans with the rent-collecting? It's simple enough! It's just what they want! And yet nobody ever thought of it till I thought of it!" And he knew of a surety that he was that most admired type in the bustling, industrial provinces a card. The desire to become a member of the Sports Club revived in his breast.