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Remember, you are a distiller he is a peer of the realm. And now I say," continued Berkins, growing more emphatic as he reached the close of his declamation, "that in my wife's interest I will oppose any and all attempts to purchase a coronet for Maggie at her sister's expense." Mr. Brookes stood for a moment stupefied as if some great calamity had befallen him.
"No more do I; I think it has been exaggerated, but, as you know, I never interfere. I wish you would come in to dinner one night." "Supposing I were to meet Berkins?" Willy stroked his moustache. "No, it is quite impossible that I could return to the Manor House. Your father behaved in a way well, I will not say what I think of it." "Berkins hasn't been to the City since.
The prospect was agreeable, but he foresaw that it would be put forward as an excuse for fixing the sum of marriage settlements as low as possible. It would, however, be difficult for Brookes to settle less on his daughter than he, Berkins, was willing to settle on his wife; so partly in the hopes of forcing Mr.
Somebody had told him that ten thousand old stamps were worth he had forgotten the price of old stamps, and wondering he dozed off. When he awoke he cried: "Half-past twelve, they must be on their way back; I wonder if Berkins is with them!" And he strolled out on the gravel.
I hope he will settle a good round sum on my daughter money invested in first-class securities, not what Berkins would call first-class, but what I should call first- class securities; and should your uncle prove the liberal man that I have no doubt he is, I don't say that I won't behave handsomely. Of course you know that my dear children will have all my money at my death.
Berkins, however, had been born a gentleman, but had had to shift for himself, even when a lad, and he had caught at all chances; he was more sophisticated, he was a gentleman in a state of retrograde, and was in all points inferior to him whom he crossed in his descent. Berkins had bought a small place, a villa with some hundred acres attached to it, on the other side of Preston Park.
Brookes, as we are on the subject, I had better tell you that I have asked Miss Brookes to be my wife." Mr. Brookes grasped at the first words. "I am sure I am very pleased to hear it, Mr. Berkins, and I hope the answer was a favourable one." "Miss Brookes is a modest girl. She has been well brought up, as a girl who is, I hope, to be my wife should be, and she was naturally a little overcome.
But he was enthralled by his own woes, and without even promising her protection and immunity, at least from her sister's right arm, the old gentleman launched forth into more than usual lamentations. He had had a stormy interview with Berkins going up in the train, and Berkins had so upset him that he had not been able to get through any business in the City. Berkins admitted of no equivocation.
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