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It was in conspectu classis in sight of the Roman fleet; and would any admiral, Roman or British, wish a fairer bay to ride in than that on your right hand? It is astonishing how blind we professed antiquaries sometimes are! Sir Robert Sibbald, Saunders Gordon, General Roy, Dr. Stokely, why, it escaped all of them.
King shrugged his shoulders and Vroom finished the sentence for him: "Coulter and Stokely could kick him out to-morrow and the News-Record would go straight on living upon his ideas for ten years at least." Howard needed no one to make this truth clear to him to the full.
You can let the balance go on reducing the loan. Then I may be able to put you onto a few good things. At any rate you can't lose anything. Your stock would bring five hundred even at forced sale. It's your chance, old man. I want to see you take it." "I'll think it over. I have no head for figures." "Let me manage it for you." Stokely rose to go.
It will double our dividends and the consumers won't feel it." "Let us not discuss it, Stokely. There don't say anything you'll regret." "But " "Now, Stokely don't argue it with me." Stokely put on his hat, stood up and looked at Howard with sullen admiration. "You will drive away the last friend you've got on earth, if you keep this up. Good morning."
I repeat, you cringed yes, cringed when Stokely insulted you. Why?" Howard was silent. "And," the Visitor went on relentlessly, "let me remind you that not only did you give her up without a struggle a few months ago but also she gave you up without a word." "But what could she have said?" "I don't know, I'm sure. I'm not familiar with ways feminine.
"That's true, my dear," he said. "And I wish that you liked the kind of a fraud I am as well as I like the kind of a fraud you are." Stokely came rushing into his office the next morning. "Good God, old man," he exclaimed, "What's the meaning of this attack on the coal roads?" Howard flushed with resentment, not at what Stokely said, but at his tone. "Now, don't get on your high horse.
He was as unscrupulous as Stokely but tried to mask it. When Stokely wished the News-Record to advocate a "job," or steal, or the election of some disreputable who would work in his interest, he told Malcolm precisely what he wanted and left the details of the stultification to his experienced adroitness.
Yet not the less for all this was the idea in his mind as a future possibility. Before very long the Corbet family moved en masse to Stokely Castle for the wedding. Of course, Ralph associated on equal terms with the magnates of the county, who were the employers of Ellinor's father, and spoke of him always as "Wilkins," just as they spoke of the butler as "Simmons."
Stokely was a frank, coarse, dollar-hunter, cheerfully unscrupulous in a large way, acute, caring not at all for principles of any kind, letting the paper alone most of the time because he was astute enough to know that in his ignorance of journalism he would surely injure it as a property. Coulter was a hypocrite and a snob. Also he fancied he knew how to conduct a newspaper.
Stokely has let me have his house here for a month we may keep it two if we like it. There is a telephone. The office isn't two hours away by rail. The newspapers are here early. We can combine work and play." The manservant had left the room, a sort of library-reception room. Marian was seated in a big chair drawn near the fire. She had thrown back her wraps and was slowly drawing off her gloves.
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