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Far up in some mountain solitude old Peter Bines, multimillionaire, with a lone pack-mule to bear his meagre outfit, picked up float-rock, tapped and scanned ledges, and chipped at boulders with the same ardour that had fired him in his penniless youth.
Ah! here are your mother and our proud Western beauty!" And she went forward to greet them. "It's more than her other half knows about her," was Mrs. Akemit's observation to the violets on her breast. "Come sit with me here in this corner, dear," said Mrs. Drelmer to Psyche, while Mrs. Bines joined her son and Mrs. Akemit. "I've so much to tell you.
Wybert on the day of his call; his name on one side, announcing him; on the other the words he had written: "Sell Consolidated Copper all you can until it goes down to 65. Do this up to the limit of your capital and I will make good anything you lose. He read the note: "ARLINGHAM HOTEL 7.30. "MR. PETER BINES: "Dear Sir: You funny old man, you.
Instantly Percival was on the other side of the portiere, and, before the other had groped his way to the dark corner where the door was, had recrossed the empty parlour and was safely in the hall. He made his way to the dining-room, where supper was under way. "Mr. Bines has seen a ghost," said the sharp-eyed Mrs. Drelmer. "Poor chap's only starved to death," said Mrs. Gwilt-Athelstan.
Bines, you half-way persuade me. I'll certainly try the copper play and about the other well, we'll see; I don't promise, mind you!" "You think over it. I'm sure you'll like the idea think of bein' in that great nobility, and bein' around them palaces with their dukes and counts. Think how these same New York women will meach to you then!" The old man rose.
"But we'd have been so nicely set up, even without the title, and now Bines, the clumsy ass, has come this infernal cropper, and knocked everything on the head. I say, you know, it's beastly!" "Hush, and let me think!"
Miss Bines just drove off a four-in-hand with the two Angsteads held the reins like an old whip, too, by Jove; but they'll be back for luncheon; and directly after luncheon she's promised to ride with me. I fancy we'll have a little practice over the sticks." "And I fancy I'm going straight back to bed, that is, if it's all right to fancy a thing you're certain about."
Plainly she had nothing to fear from him. She became gracious. "It was only a little shopping tour, Mr. Bines, that and a call at the hospital, where they have one of my maids who slipped on the avenue yesterday and fractured one of her er limbs. Do sit down." Mrs. Wybert said "limb" for leg with the rather conscious air of escaping from an awkward situation only by the subtlest finesse.
"I can't divine her. You know she has acted perversely in the past. I used to think she might have some affair of which we knew nothing something silly and romantic. But if she had any such thing I'm sure it was ended, and she'd have jumped at this chance a year ago. You know yourself she was ready to marry young Bines, and was really disappointed when he didn't propose."
Outwardly, in details of ornamentation, the building is said to duplicate the Chateaux Blois, those splendid palaces of Francis I. Inside are all the line and colour and device of elegant opulence, modern to the last note. To this palace of an October evening comes the tribe of Bines, and many another such, for a triumphal feast in the abode of Barbarian Silas Higbee.
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