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"Thank you!" she answered in relief. I totted up the bill and handed it to her. "Eight dollars and thirty-five cents," I said. "Now, Mr. Bremner, please add your charge for the conveying of my piano, so that I may pay my debts altogether." I gasped in amazement. I straightened myself indignantly, for the idea of making a charge for that work had never entered my head.
Indeed it was one of his gifts to remember with accuracy all money transactions, whether great or small, and to keep an account book in his head, which was always totted up and balanced with accuracy.
Yet, curiously enough, when Reason had set down the figures accurately, as he fancied, and totted up the trifling totals, there flitted before him something more that refused to be set down upon the paper. The Ledger had no lines for it. What was it? Why was it pleasant, even flattering? Why did it mitigate his discontent and lessen the dissatisfied feeling?
"Let us hope that when the account comes to be totted up, allowance will be made." Daisy's hand upon his banished the sneer. "Be fair, Nick," she urged. "We are not all made with wills of iron. I know you are bitter because you think he isn't good enough for her. But would you think any man good enough? Don't think I wanted this. I was on your side. But I I was busy at the time with other things.
In the buying of this all-too-costly-gift, then, consisted that business transaction he had made the excuse for leaving her alone with Faircloth, upon the quay alongside which lay the Forest Queen. Oh! he surpassed himself! Was too indulgent, too munificent to her! As on a former occasion, she totted up the sum of his good deeds. Hadn't he given up his winter's sport for her sake?
When he totted it all up together he found that he was affluent. He could reckon on a round four hundred all told. In Torrington Square, by the practice of a little ingenious economy, he could easily live on a hundred and twenty-five; so that by the end of the first year he should have saved the considerable sum of two hundred and seventy-five pounds.
Several of the girls looked with weary curiosity at Mavis, while they mentally totted up the price she had paid for her clothes; when they reached their respective totals, they resumed their meal. "Miss Keeth?" said the dark little woman at the head of the table, who spoke with a lisp. "Yes," replied Mavis. "If you want thupper, you'll find a theat." "Thank you."
In the last few seconds of the final round, however, a little out of breath with his defensive display, the older man changed his tactics. With lowered head and ferocious face he advanced, a whirling bulk of might and action, upon the amateur. Tap tap tap! Left right, over and under, through the guard and round the guard of the outfought youngster the unclenched gloves totted up a score of points.
The Squire would shout to her to spare him a quarter of an hour in the study to see if he had totted up his accounts right. In short, Jane Macalister was as much part and parcel of the Lorrimer household as if she were really one of themselves. She was by no means educated up to the standard of the latter half of the nineteenth century, but what she did know, she knew thoroughly.
By the way, what's your London address?" Hawke was complacently good humored as he glanced at a visiting card whereon sundry comfortable figures were roughly totted up. "Junior United Service, always," carelessly said Anstruther. "They keep run of me, for I'm off for the woods as soon as the shooting season opens. Where will you be this winter?"
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