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Billson!" The house had gotten itself all ready to burst into the proper tornado of applause; but instead of doing it, it seemed stricken with a paralysis; there was a deep hush for a moment or two, then a wave of whispered murmurs swept the place of about this tenor: "Billson! oh, come, this is too thin! Twenty dollars to a stranger or anybody Billson! Tell it to the marines!"
Gable was described as a cunning scoundrel whose affectations of almost imbecile simplicity might easily have deceived intelligences less keen than those at the service of the Mercury, and neither Messrs. Billson and Hogan nor Master Mathieson hinted that their assailants were anything less than grown men of the largest size and most ferocious type.
When I was about to put it in an envelope I was called into my back office, and without thinking I left the paper lying open on my desk." He stopped, turned his head slowly toward Billson, waited a moment, then added: "I ask you to note this; when I returned, a little latter, Mr. In a moment Billson was on his feet and shouting: "It's a lie! It's an infamous lie!" The Chair. "Be seated, sir! Mr.
It's the only good thing I have to say for Muskegon Commercial College, that we were all, even the small fry, deeply mortified to be posted as defaulters; and the collapse of a merchant prince like Billson, who had ridden pretty high in his days of prosperity, was, of course, particularly hard to bear.
And now at this point the house caught its breath all of a sudden in a new access of astonishment, for it discovered that whereas in one part of the hall Deacon Billson was standing up with his head weekly bowed, in another part of it Lawyer Wilson was doing the same. There was a wondering silence now for a while. Everybody was puzzled, and nineteen couples were surprised and indignant.
Billson would read a private paper was a thing which could not occur to me; he was an honourable man, and he would be above that. If you will allow me to say it, I think his extra word 'very' stands explained: it is attributable to a defect of memory. I was the only man in the world who could furnish here any detail of the test-mark by honourable means. I have finished."
“Ah,” cried Welsh, “this looks devilish comfortable.” “A letter for me,” said Twiddel; “from Billson, I think.” He read it and threw it to his friend, remarking, “I call this rather cool of him.” Welsh read— “DEAR GEORGE,—I am just off for three weeks’ holiday. Sorry for leaving your practice, but I think it can look after itself till you return.
All manner of cries were scattered through the din: "We're getting rich two Symbols of Incorruptibility! without counting Billson!" "Three! count Shadbelly in we can't have too many!" "All right Billson's elected!" "Alas, poor Wilson! victim of two thieves!" A Powerful Voice. "Silence! The Chair's fished up something more out of its pocket." Voices. "Hurrah! Is it something fresh?
Then he waved his hand in a wandering and mechanical way, and made an effort or two to say something, then gave it up, despondently. Several voices cried out: "Read it! read it! What is it?" "There!" cried Wilson, "I reckon that settles it! I knew perfectly well my note was purloined." "Purloined!" retorted Billson. "I'll let you know that neither you nor any man of your kidney must venture to "
But Wilson was a lawyer. He struggled to his feet, pale and worried, and said: "I ask the indulgence of the house while I explain this most painful matter. I am sorry to say what I am about to say, since it must inflict irreparable injury upon Mr. Billson, whom I have always esteemed and respected until now, and in whose invulnerability to temptation I entirely believed as did you all.
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