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"I did tell him the other day I did speak to him about it," said Mrs. Rossitur; "but he said there was no reason why Hugh should do it there were plenty of other people " "But how can he say so when he knows we never can ask Lucas to do anything of the kind, and that other man always contrives to be out of the way when he is wanted?
"Does that mill pay for the working? said Charlton, turning with the dryest disregard from her interference, and addressing himself determinately to his father. "What do you mean? It does not work gratuitously," answered Mr. Rossitur, with at least equal dryness. "But, I mean, are the profits of it enough to pay for the loss of Hugh's time?"
"Only from having my word blown away by your fire," said Carleton, smiling. "Come, Rossitur, recollect yourself remember our compact." "Compact! one isn't bound to keep compacts with unearthly personages," said Rossitur, half sulkily and half angrily; "and besides I made none." Mr. Carleton turned from him very coolly and walked on.
Hugh she reported was asleep, and would be just ready to see Mr. Carleton by the time they got back. They stood a few minutes talking, and then Fleda went to get ready. Both pair of eyes followed her as she left the room and then met with perfect understanding. "Will you give your child to me, Mrs. Rossitur?" said the gentleman. "With all my heart!" exclaimed Mrs.
It is too bad to leave you all alone, aunt Lucy." Mrs. Rossitur pulled her down for a kiss, a kiss in which how much was said on both sides! and Fleda set forth, choosing as she very commonly did the old-time way through the kitchen. "Off again?" said Barby, who was on her knees scrubbing the great flag-stones of the hearth. "Yes, I am going up to see the donation party." "Has the minister come?"
She would return immediately to Montepoole. "And how long shall you be here now?" she said. "A few days it will not be more than a week." "Do you know how soon Mr. Rossitur intends to sail for Jamaica?" "As soon as possible he will make his stay in New York very short not more than a fortnight perhaps, as short as he can."
Evelyn," the young man went on; "Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette what would you have more unrefined, more heavy, more animal, than the face of that descendant of a line of kings?" Mrs. Evelyn bowed her head acquiescingly and seemed to enjoy her apple. "He had a pretty bad lot of an inheritance sure enough, take it all together," said Rossitur.
"Well you do look dreadful bad," said Barby eying her. "Why there ain't much particular, Fleda; nobody's had any heart to eat lately; I thought I might a'most as well save myself the fuss of getting victuals. Hugh lives like a bird, and Mis' Rossitur ain't much better, and I think all of 'em have been keeping their appetites till you came back; 'cept Philetus and me; we keep it up pretty well.
Gregory had secured for him, was immediately accepted, and every arrangement pressed to hasten his going. On every account, he was impatient to be out of America, and especially since his son's death. Marion was of his mind. Mrs. Rossitur had more of a home feeling, even for the place where home had not been to her as happy as it might.
Rossitur, taking a pamphlet from the table to fold and twist as he spoke, "it is a confounded life; for the head and the hands must either live separate, or the head must do no other work but wait upon the hands. It is an alternative of loss and waste, sir."
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