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She'll not forgive me that disparagement before my uncle; that is, if there be anything between herself and Atlee, a point which a few minutes will settle when I see them together. It would not be very difficult to make Atlee regard me as his friend, and as one ready to aid him in this same ambition. Of course he is prepared to see in me the enemy of all his plans.
The letter-bag lay in the hall, and Nina went down at once and deposited her letter in it; this done, she lay down on her bed, not to sleep, but to think over Donogan and his letter till daybreak. 'Strange house this, said Joseph Atlee, as Nina entered the room the next morning where he sat alone at breakfast.
Atlee felt that Walpole might, with very little exercise of courtesy, have dealt more considerately by him. 'I'm not exactly a valet, muttered he to himself, 'to whom a man flings a waistcoat as he chucks a shilling to a porter. I am more than Mr. Walpole's equal in many things, which are not accidents of fortune.
These are the idiots who get us into foreign wars, or those apologetic movements in diplomacy, which are as bad as lost battles. What a contrast to Atlee a rare clever dog, Atlee and so awake, not only to one, but to every contingency of a case. I like that fellow I like a fellow that stops all the earths!
Here it was totally different. These men did not live together with that daily interchange of liberties which, with all their passing contentions, so accustom people to each other's humours as to establish the soundest and strongest of all friendships. Walpole had adopted Atlee because he found him useful in a variety of ways.
Thus excusing and extenuating wherein he could not flatter, Atlee talked on the entire evening, till he sent the two Englishmen home heartily sick of a bombastic eulogy on the land where a pilot had run their cutter on a rock, and a revenue officer had seized all their tobacco.
'Neither am I; but I should risk a small bet on it. He is a ready fellow, and the ready fellows are many-sided eh, Maude? Now, though his lordship only asked for his niece's concurrence in his own sage remark, Walpole affected to understand it as a direct appeal to her opinion of Atlee, and said, 'Is that your judgment of this gentleman, Maude?
'She only meant that for an impertinence, said Atlee, after she left the room; 'but she was wonderfully near the truth, though not truthfully expressed.
I remember something it was a newspaper story of a girl that saved Cecil's life by throwing herself before him a very pretty incident it was; but these things make no figure in a settlement; and a woman may be as bold as Joan of Arc, and not have sixpence. Atlee says you can always settle the courage on the younger children. 'Atlee's an arrant scamp, said my lord, laughing.
I am received as the son of a man of condition and property, and you want to bound my habits by those of my chum, Joe Atlee, whose father is starving somewhere on the pay of a Presbyterian minister. Even Joe himself laughs at the notion of gauging my expenses by his.
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