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"Well," Paula retorted, drawing the rest of the room into it again just as Wallace was making a gallant effort to start a subsidiary conversation to serve as a screen, "that's because you haven't heard those songs. If there's a singer in the world who'd dare cut loose with them right after eating the sort of dinner Lucile will have to-night for Mary and Rush, I'd like to see him try it."
That night Ben come in, who'd been up round Spokane mostly since the accident, and Ed told him all about it; how his flight was two hundred and thirty-five feet. And wasn't it the greatest accident that ever happened to anybody? Ed noticed that Ben didn't seem to be excited about it the way he had ought to be.
There's no use rubbing it in." "If I had a servant," says she, right pointed, "who'd look at the best of them I'd discharge him as soon as I knew it. I've got my eye on Emmy, my second-floor maid, too. All I can say is, you'd all better be more careful, or, the first thing some of you know " "Naturally," says he, "I can imagine that," says he. "It's hell to belong to the lower classes!"
Morrice now undertook to procure them a table for tea, which, as the room was very full, was not easily done; and while they were waiting his success, Miss Larolles, who from the stairs had perceived Cecilia, came running up to her, and taking her hand, called out "Lord, my dear creature, who'd have thought of seeing you here? I was never so surprised in my life!
"Then don't you think, ma'am, there is repentance and forgiveness? Our Lord said " "You ought to have told me; and as for Mrs. Barfield, her conduct is most reprehensible." "Then, ma'am, would you prevent every poor girl who has had a misfortune from earning her bread? If they was all like you there would be more girls who'd do away with themselves and their babies.
Especially on an evening when at the highest moment of her justifiable wrath Mr. Freddie would appear and nonchalantly suggest a "few eats for some chaps who'd dropped in" as casually as though Janet were not already on the verge of explosion.
"Well, I got down into the room all right, and I got the safe open, and there was the money, and, right facing me, my letters and bonds, and pretty well a hundred thousand dollars in cash. And then I saw the lights flare up, and Murchison was there in his shirt and trousers. "'So that's your game, is it, Richard Beverley? he said. "There were two of the others with him who'd been playing cards.
By the time the Doc got around to preaching, Deacon Wiggleford was looking like a fellow who'd bought a gold brick, and the Higher Lifer like the brick. Everybody else felt and looked as if they were attending the Doc's funeral, and, as usual, the only really calm and composed member of the party was the corpse.
I did tell you everything but his name." "And the circumstances." "How do you mean the circumstances?" "I got the impression from you this morning that it was some millionaire Johnny who'd come to your father's aid by advancing the sum in the ordinary way of business. I didn't understand that it was a comparatively poor chap who was cleaning himself out to come to yours."
"But why did you not send for the doctor, mother?" "Doctor! Eh? who's to pay him? I've got no money, Jack." "Well, but Doctor Tadpole's very kind." "Yes, yes, kind to the widow; but not to old women like me, without any money." "But why not have some one to sit up with you, and help you?" "Sit up with me! Who'd sit up with me? Yes, if I paid them.
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