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"Ha, Miss Faith," he cried, "'wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit, in an instant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning. But 'The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen As is the razor's edge invisible, Cutting a smaller hair than may be seen. Come," he added, observing that Mr. Armstrong looked grave, "take my arm, and we will discuss some serious subject, together."
"I shall be ready for him in just a second. Have Whitecap held here in the anteroom while you bring Armstrong into the laboratory. By the way, Walter, that was another of the Binet tests, putting a man at solving puzzles. It involves reflective judgment, one of the factors in executive ability. If Whitecap had been defective, it would have taken him five minutes to do that puzzle, if at all.
Armstrong with you, Laurent said. 'She is in need of change and distraction. This quiet, dead-alive existence is not good for her. You must insist upon her shaking herself free of the habits of seclusion into which she is falling. I should urge you very strongly to find some good creature of her own sex who would be a companion to her. She is living too much alone; she has too few interests.
Just as soon as this is introduced we'll have Gates and Armstrong down here they're the Ribblevale attorneys, aren't they? I thought so, and the best legal talent they can hire. And they'll round up all the disgruntled fellows, you know, that ain't friendly to the Railroad. We've got to do it quick, Mr. Paret. Gorse gave you a letter to the Governor, didn't he?" "Yes," I said. "Well, come along.
Morgan, with the mechanical intonation of an interpreter translating, "the loss of Mr. Elderson's mule has peppered his coffee." The fact that Henry Armstrong was buried did not seem to him to prove that he was dead: he had always been a hard man to convince. That he really was buried, the testimony of his senses compelled him to admit.
Affairs of his own required some personal attention. He chose these weeks while the others, also, were away. It was decided that the marriage should take place in the coming spring; and that then the house at Cross Corners should become the home of Mr. Armstrong and Faith; and that Mr.
Conway could judge of his design the bogus Lester Armstrong had bounded to his feet and into the midst of the crowd. "You are discharged!" he cried, turning to the old cashier. "I will give you just ten minutes to get out of this building you and the girl, both of you. It was a plan hatched up between you and her to extort money from me."
This truth, announced before the war by Hull and Armstrong, as well as by Harrison somewhat later, and sufficiently obvious to any thoughtful man, was recognized in act by Harrison and the Government after the Frenchtown disaster.
By order of the President, Smith wrote to Armstrong, the American minister at Paris, that "a satisfactory provision for restoring the property lately surprised and seized, by the order or at the instance of the French government, must be combined with a repeal of the French edicts, with a view to a non-intercourse with Great Britain; such a provision being an indispensable evidence of the just purpose of France toward the United States."
So they adjourned into the big empty room dedicated to the manly sports of the man and his boy, and there for half an hour a mortal combat raged, at the end of which Roger pulled off his mask and said, panting "Where did you learn foils, Armstrong? For a year I've been trying to run you through the body, and I've never even yet scratched your arm." "I fenced a good deal at Oxford." "Ah!
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