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"I'm going down on Thursday." "B-better come in and see me," said Jethro. "Very well," answered Mr. Worthington; "I'll be in at two o'clock on Thursday." And then, without another word to either of them, he swung on his heel and strode quickly out of the store. Jethro did not move. William Wetherell's hand was trembling so that he could not write, and he could not trust his voice to speak.
Perhaps perhaps his heart was broken. And could a man with a broken heart still fight on? She took his hand and pressed it against her face, and he felt that it was wet with her tears. "B-better go to bed now, Cynthy," he said; "m-must be worn out m-must be worn out." He stooped and kissed her on the forehead. It was thus that Jethro Bass accepted his sentence.
"Yes, but I'm entitled to know what's being done. I'm paying for it." "H-hain't paid for it yet hev you?" "No, I most assuredly haven't." "B-better wait till you do." There was very little satisfaction in this, and Mr. Worthington had at length been compelled to depart, fuming, to the house of his friend the enemy, Mr. Duncan, there to attempt for the twentieth time to persuade Mr.
Arbuthnot opened her mouth to protest "and I I've done nothing but duties, things for other people, ever since I was a girl, and I don't believe anybody loves me a bit a bit the b-better and I long oh, I long for something else something else " Was she going to cry? Mrs. Arbuthnot became acutely uncomfortable and sympathetic. She hoped she wasn't going to cry. Not there.
Worthington, this bank president who had given him sage advice, this preacher of political purity, had been reduced to a frenzied supplicant. He stood bending over Jethro. "What's your price? Name it, for God's sake." "B-better wait till you get the bill hadn't you? b-better wait till you get the bill." "Will you put the franchise through?" "Goin' down to the capital soon?" Jethro inquired.
"Y-you sure l-l-look all right, little g-girl," he admitted, slowly, "but I 've h-heard th-th-that feller was hell with w-women. I-I reckon you b-better go b-back to Farnham an' find out." He paused, wiping his perspiring face with the back of his hand, his cheeks reddening painfully under her unfaltering gaze. Finally he blurted out: "Say, w-who are you, anyhow?" "Beth Norvell, an actress."
At any rate, he accepted her decision with a meekness which would have astonished many people who knew only that side of him which he showed to the world. Gently she released her hand, and folded up the bundle again and gave it to him. "B-better keep it hadn't you?" "No, you keep it. And I will wear it for you when I am rich, Uncle Jethro."
Perhaps perhaps his heart was broken. And could a man with a broken heart still fight on? She took his hand and pressed it against her face, and he felt that it was wet with her tears. "B-better go to bed now, Cynthy," he said; "m-must be worn out m-must be worn out." He stooped and kissed her on the forehead. It was thus that Jethro Bass accepted his sentence.
"He means I threatened to s-shoot him, Clo so I did, but it was for your sake, to sh-shield you from persecution as a brother should." "Cleone," said Barnabas, ignoring Barrymaine altogether, "if there is any one in this world who should know me, and what manner of man I am, surely it is you " "Yes, she knows you b-better than you think, she knows you for a publican's son, first of all "
"I've been waiting for you half an hour, Louis." "I'm not coming," he said, looking away from her awkwardly. "Y-you've b-better c-company than m-mine." She flushed and felt herself trembling with temper. A flash from her father's eyes lit up her face as she said quickly: "No, I haven't. I want to talk to you." "I c-can't l-leave these chaps now. I'll s-see you to-morrow," he said sullenly.
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