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Bilton, a stockbroker's clerk, represented the better kind of City young man athletic, yet intelligent, spirited without vulgarity a breezy, good-humoured, wholesome fellow. He came down on his bicycle, and would return in the same way. Louise at once made a resolve to learn cycling. 'I wish you lived at Sutton, Mr. Bilton. I should ask you to teach me.
Twist's spectacles stared enormously at her. "No, no," said Anna-Rose quickly. "Marriage is a sacred thing, and you can't just marry so as to be more comfortable." "I guess if I married Mrs. Bilton I'd be more uncomfortable," remarked Mr. Twist with considerable dryness.
Anna-Rose, unable to listen any longer without answering to the insistent inquiries as to why Mr. Twist had kept her in the dark, raised her voice at last and called out, "But he wanted to he wanted to all the time you wouldn't listen you wouldn't stop " Mrs. Bilton did stop however when she got inside the shanty. Her tongue and her feet stopped dead together.
As her eye saw it, patriotism was among other things a determination to resist the encroachments of foreigners "Mrs. Bilton " She had no wish to judge him, but she had still less wish to be mixed up with foreigners, and foreigners for her at that moment meant Germans "Mrs. Bilton "
Gilton's grass was cut smoothly by the man who made the fires, while Mr. Bilton only found a chance to cut his himself once in two weeks. Then, by and by, Mr. Gilton bought a red garden bench and put it under the tree that was nearest to the fence. No one ever went out and sat on it, to be sure, but to the Bilton children it represented the visible flush of prosperity.
When six struck and nobody showed the least sign of going away he could bear it no longer, and touched the little muffled electric bell that connected him to Mrs. Bilton in what Anna-Felicitas called a mystical union Anna II. was really excessively tactless; she had said this to Mrs.
Bilton had, in the lavish American fashion, her own bathroom, so that even at that point there was no collision. The twins' rooms were connected by a bathroom all to themselves, with no other door into it except the doors from their bedrooms, and Mr. Twist, who dwelt discreetly at the other end of the house, also had a bathroom of his own.
"And you said, Steeve Bilton said, you said, 'Where is she? you said, and he swore, and you swore, and a lady rode up, and you pulled, and she sang out, and off went the gentleman, and Steeve said she said, 'For shame." "And it was the truest word spoken that day!" Robert released him. "You don't know much, Mr.
He and his fellow experts had deplored the absence of opportunities since Mrs. Bilton came of developing the friendship begun the first day, and talked of them on their way home in the afternoons with affectionate and respectful familiarity as The Cutes. "Now," said Mr.
Why hadn't that white-haired gasbag, Mrs. Bilton Mr. Twist's thoughts were sometimes unjust joined them sooner? Why had that shirker Dellogg died? He got his bootlaces hopelessly into knots. "I'd like to start right in getting the rooms fixed up, Mr. Twist," said the manager pleasantly. "Mrs. Hart of Boston is very " "See here," said Mr.
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