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Stevens what the proportions are and how you applied it." And because the advice was followed by a successful extermination of the plague, the lad's prestige increased and he was summoned to future conclaves when troublesome conditions arose. Now and then there was a morning when Mr. Stevens would remark to Mr. Wharton: "I've got to go to the Falls to-day to see about some freight.
"We must not forget that there are perils from the jungle as well as from the river. There is no saying what wild beast may pay us a visit." Inasmuch as Jack could not be dissuaded from his purpose, and Wharton began to suspect his friend was half right, the question was decided.
He was resolved to recover her esteem: he determined to break off all connexion with Mrs. Wharton; and, full of this intention, he was impatient till the physicians permitted him to go abroad. When he was at last free from their dominion, had escaped from his chamber, and had just gained the staircase, he was stopped by his mother.
Our Whartons had come down in the latter half of August, and at the beginning of September Mr. Wharton returned to London. Everett, of course, remained, as he was still learning the lesson of which he was in truth becoming a little weary; and at last Emily had also been persuaded to stay in Herefordshire.
"To be sure, that's quite natural. But why in hell did you MARRY her? That wasn't necessary, was it?" Lorelei uttered a sharp cry. Bob rose; his eyes were bright and hard. Mr. Wharton merely arched his shaggy brows, inquiring quickly of the bride: "What's the matter? I state the case correctly, do I not?" "No!" gasped Lorelei. "Let's talk plainly "
The moral struggle which had filled the past fortnight from end to end had deepened all the grooves and strained the forces of life; and the path, though glimmering, was not wholly plain. A letter lay unfinished in her drawer if she sent it that night, there would be little necessity or inducement for Wharton to climb those stairs on the morrow. Yet, if he held her to it, she must see him.
"Upon my word, I shall begin to think that you're tipsy," said Lopez. "Tipsy!" said the other. "How dare you say such a thing to me? You never in your life saw me in the least altered by any thing I had drunk." Lopez knew that at any rate this was untrue. "I've seen you as drunk as Cloe before now," said he. "That's a lie," said Everett Wharton.
Wharton looked him steadily in the face a moment, then turned to his lordship's seconds. "If Mr. Caryll is of the same mind as his lordship, we had best get to work at once," he said; and bowing to them, withdrew with Gascoigne. "See to the swords, Mainwaring," said Rotherby shortly. "Here, Fanny!"
I found I could not look up; I knew how bad my own work was, and I could not stand seeing it; so I drew my own martyrdom rather than make a scandal by leaving the church." "Did you hear my sermon?" asked the clergyman. "I don't remember," answered Wharton vaguely; "what was it about?" Strong and Hazard broke into a laugh which roused him to the energy of self-defense.
The permanent official round the corner watched the unequal fight with attentive amusement. Once when it was a question of Mill's doctrine of cost of production as compared with that of a leading modern collectivist, he leant forward and supplied a correction of something Wharton had said. Wharton instantly put down his cigarette and addressed him in another tone.
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