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And now, as casually as he had ever raked in a jack-pot from the bewildered sophomores, he had bought the Starkweather business, and not on a shoestring, either, as Mirabelle had suspected. He had roomed with Henry at college; he had been his inseparable companion, out of office hours, ever since; he knew him too well to proffer any trite condolence.
I'd have rented it to anybody on earth on the same terms." The little chairman edged forward. "Miss Starkweather Mrs. Mix I knew how you feel about motion pictures, of course, but how could I know you wouldn't even want to be in the same building with " "Oh, dry up!" She whirled on the lawyer. "Is that fair? Do you call that fair? Do you?" Mr.
He sells nursery stock, and each spring when he comes around and I tell him that the peach trees or the raspberry bushes I bought of him the year before have not done well, he says, with the greatest astonishment, 'Wal, now, ye ain't said what I hoped ye would. I see that I haven't said what you hoped I would." It was too serious a matter, however, for Mary Starkweather to joke about.
His sister caught sight of him, and waved her hand in greeting; and this astonished him all the more, because since Henry's departure, she had behaved towards him as though his character needed a bath. Mr. Starkweather made room for her. "Thought I'd give you a lift back to the house," he said. There was an unusual colour in her cheeks, and her eyes were brilliant. "John, do you know what I am?"
Starkweather jumped up and ran over to the organ and joined in with his deep voice. Harriet and I followed. The Scotch Preacher's wife nodded in time with the music, and presently I saw the tears in her eyes. As for Dr.
Starkweather was prominent among the leaders of the Democratic party of this State, when its principles were well defined, and was a strong adherent to the administrations of Presidents Jackson and Van Buren, but his being always in the political minority in the part of the State in which he lived, prevented those high political preferments which otherwise would have been conferred upon him.
His laugh came back to him, but there was no hilarity in it. It was merely an expression of his helplessness; it was tragedy turned inside out. Yet he felt no resentment towards his uncle, but rather an overwhelming pity. He felt no resentment towards his friend Standish, who had bought out the perfectly respectable business which Mr. Starkweather might so easily have left to Henry. Mr.
In London I could obtain the legal opinion which would tell me whether I were lawfully married to Eustace or not. In London I should be within reach of the help and advice of my father's faithful old clerk. I could confide in Benjamin as I could confide in no one else. Dearly as I loved my uncle Starkweather, I shrank from communicating with him in my present need.
Starkweather beheld them, he lifted his eyebrows; some of those older men he hadn't seen in public for a dozen years he had forgotten that they were alive. But the majority of them were retired or retiring capitalists; men who in their day, had managed important interests, and even now controlled them. Mr.
Benjamin looked very grave when he returned to me after accompanying Doctor Starkweather to the garden gate. "Pray be advised, my dear," he said. "I don't ask you to consider my view of this matter, as good for much. But your uncle's opinion is surely worth considering?" I did not reply. It was useless to say any more. I made up my mind to be misunderstood and discouraged, and to bear it.
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