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You are a person of importance in the eyes of the unthinking multitude, but it only envies you your fortune; it does not admire you personally. When you die people will count your millions, not your good deeds." He laughed cynically and drew up a chair near her desk. As a general thing, John Ryder never wasted words on women.
He had no energy for equivocation. Ryder accepted this piece of news in the spirit of a man steeled to the keenest strokes of Fate. 'She was a beautiful girl, he said. 'I remember I loved her dearly. 'You speak as if it were fifty years ago. 'I have been in hell since, I tell you. Jim looked closely into his brother's face again, but it baffled him; it betrayed no more feeling than a stone.
But I thought that this was only a ruse on the part of the little lady to get rid of me, and, instead of getting away, as I should have done, I stepped out into the hallway. The sight that I saw filled me with indignation, for there stood Jane Ryder, leaning against her mother, and rigged out in the toggery of a man. I took her by the arm, and I must have gripped it roughly, for she winced.
"Don't you dare to put your hands on me. You have lied to me, and that is enough!" The short-haired man was almost beside himself with anger, and I could see that the lad would be no match for him. He was not at all frightened, but when he turned his eyes toward me, with a little smile, I saw the face of Jane Ryder, the little lady I had seen in a top-buggy on her way to carry aid to Jack Bledsoe.
There was no difficulty as far as John Ryder was concerned. He favoured the match and had often spoken of it. Indeed, Ryder desired it, for such an alliance would naturally further his business interests in every way. Roberts knew that his daughter Kate had more than a liking for Ryder's handsome young son.
Why, one time she took a notion she'd keep boarders and Henry Ryder, that drives the fruit cart, he started to board there. But he only stayed two days. The fust day they had biled eggs and the next day they had soup made out of the shells. Course that probably ain't true Henry's an awful liar but all the same " "Never mind Henry Ryder, or Abner Bacheldor, either," interrupted Mary.
"Good-by!" she said, and as soon as she could tear her hand from mine she was gone gone by another door, and Harry and her companion came plump upon me standing in the hallway, gazing at the door through which Jane Ryder had disappeared. Then I turned and gazed at them, first at one and then at the other. "What have you done with her?" inquired Kate, with just a shade of solicitude in her voice.
The people down in the valley looked up at it, glowing like a star that had slipped out of the sky and lodged somehow on the mountain, and wondered what Stephen Ryder could be about so late at night. When he left the shop there was no sign of the boys who had ornamented the log earlier in the evening. He walked up the road to his house, and found his wife sitting alone in the rickety little porch.
Ryder. It would be a glorious tale for them to tell their constituents, that it was impossible for them, however prejudiced, if sent to hear, discussion in that House, to avoid surrendering up their hearts and judgments at the shrine of reason. Mr. Drake said, that he would oppose the abolition to the utmost. We had, by a want of prudent conduct, lost America.
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