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Well, you know" and here Fulkerson brought in the figure that struck him so much in Beaton's phrase and had been on his tongue ever since "you're the man on horseback to him; and he'd be more apt to do what you say than if anybody else said it." "You are very good, sir," said the colonel, trying to be proof against the flattery, "but I am afraid you overrate my influence."
"Well, I don't think there are many young ladies that Beaton's afraid of," said Fulkerson, giving himself the respite of this purely random remark, while he interrogated the faces of Mrs. Leighton and Colonel Woodburn for some light upon the tendency of their daughters' words. He was not helped by Mrs. Leighton's saying, with a certain anxiety, "I don't know what you mean, Mr. Fulkerson."
His interest in Beaton's ignorance seemed to overcome his contempt of it. "Knocked off everywhere this morning except Third Avenue and one or two cross-town lines."
"Pshaw!" said Mela, one morning when she came to breakfast, "I reckon if we was to send up an old card of Mr. Beaton's she'd rattle down-stairs fast enough. If she's sick, she's love-sick. It makes me sick to see her." Mela was talking to Mrs. Mandel, but her father looked up from his plate and listened.
Beaton's telling us he lived in New York." "But I thought you came from Rochester; or was it Syracuse? I always get those places mixed up." "Probably I told you my father lived at Syracuse. I've been in New York ever since I came home from Paris," said Beaton, with the confusion of a man who feels himself played upon by a woman. "From Paris!"
"Come and look at this, Miss Leighton," she called to Alma, who reluctantly approached. "What lines are these?" Mrs. Leighton asked, pointing to Beaton's pencil scratches. "They're suggestions of modifications," he replied. "I don't think they improve it much. What do you think, Alma?"
Mr. Beaton's long words, and way of mouthing his highly correct phrases, had already seemed to take the savour out of the morning. When the exchange was made Mr. Seaton alas! showing less eagerness than might have been expected Laura quietly examined her companion. It seemed to her that he was taller than ever; surely she was not much higher than his elbow!
His interest in Beaton's ignorance seemed to overcome his contempt of it. "Knocked off everywhere this morning except Third Avenue and one or two cross-town lines."
In the year of Martin Luther's death Protestant doctrines were preached in Scotland by George Wishart. This reformer was burned at St. Two months later the Cardinal himself, who practically controlled the Scottish government, was murdered in the castle of St. Andrew's. Beaton's death was "fatal to the Catholic religion and to the French interest in Scotland."
Fulkerson was still morally crawling round on his hands and knees, as he said, in abject gratitude at Beaton's feet, though he had his qualms, his questions; and he declared that Beaton was the most inspired ass since Balaam's. "We're all asses, of course," he admitted, in semi-apology to March; "but we're no such asses as Beaton."
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