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Parker Handy as president, and himself as cashier. About a year afterwards Mr. Handy resigned, and Mr. Joseph Berkins became president.
She had introduced Frank as Lord Mount Rorke's son, then as his nephew, then as his heir, and, fearing she might succumb to the temptation of introducing him as Mount Rorke himself, Frank escaped from her, and joined a party that Berkins was personally conducting through the grounds. The stables had been built by So-and-so on the most approved principles.
"You had better go without me; I cannot start now. I haven't nearly got my things together." "Very well, very well." Willy walked from room to room tying and untying brown paper parcels in his most methodical and most dilatory manner. His sisters stood watching him from the drawing-room door. "Did father tell you nothing when Berkins left? They had a row, hadn't they? It isn't off, is it?"
Berkins is not like the young good-for-nothings your sisters waste their time with, he is a man of means, of eight thousand a year; you don't expect him to come round here every evening to tea, and to play tennis, and to walk in the moonlight and talk nonsense. Berkins is a man of means, he is a man who can make a settlement." "Has he spoken to you on the subject, then?" "No, Mr.
"She thinks that the coachman has spread it all over Southwick how shall I say it? I don't know that I ought to tell you. Well, that she has gone wrong with you and Berkins. I thought I should die of laughing the idea of Berkins was too funny for words." "But your father doesn't believe it?" "Of course not." "He doesn't suspect me, I hope?" "No; I am sure he doesn't.
Brookes; and had it not been for the certain knowledge that Berkins had lately increased his income by a couple of thousands a year, he would have answered him tartly enough; but as this fact admitted of no doubt he bridled his anger and said: "If you could put my boy right it would be more to the point.
The association of Berkins with electricity proved so generally ludicrous that Mrs. Wood, conscious of the respect she owed Miss Brookes, pretended to look for her handkerchief, and it was for a moment doubtful if the spectacles would preserve their gravity.
Still, in spite of them I should have got on if I hadn't lost my nerve and had to give up hunting; and without hunting there is no way of making acquaintances." Willy had relied on a hunter as Berkins had on pheasants and glass- houses. But he hated hunting, and finding he got no further than a few breakfasts, he had told a story of a heavy fall and sold his horses.
"Well, there's no use in quarrelling," said Grace, "and I wouldn't advise you to worry father about it. You know he can't stand the name of Meason. It seems to me that neither of you care much whom you flirt with, you like so many young men." "It is better to like a dozen young men than one old one." "I shan't marry Mr. Berkins, no matter what you say.
He stooped as if to examine his favourite Linnell, but, in his passion, he did not see it. The table, covered with a grey cloth, lay like an account spread out between the moneyed men. "Taking your words into due consideration, I think I had better wish you good-morning, Mr. Brookes." "Mr. Berkins, I would not wish you to misunderstand me," said Mr.
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