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It was suspiciously strange that, after Miss Bliss's mention of a loafer who had given information a loafer toasted by Krauss an individual answering the description had so promptly disappeared. Well now, Sophy or no Sophy, FitzGerald must be told! Shafto found his opportunity the following night, when he and the police officer had the veranda to themselves.
Meantime, Miss Pritchard found occasion to speak to Elsie on the subject of Mr. Bliss's letter. She handed it to her; the girl read it quietly and passed it back without speaking, yet meeting her eyes frankly. "I confess, Elsie, I can't conceive how you should want so large a sum at this time," Miss Pritchard began.
I have not discussed certain modifications proposed by the Japanese delegates, since, as is clear from General Bliss's letter, they amounted to nothing and were merely a pretense of concession and without substantial value. White, and myself in regard to the Japanese claims, the Council of Four reached its final decision of the matter, in which necessarily Mr. Wilson acquiesced.
I was sent to a dress-maker of Mrs. Bliss's recommending; but I ordered the dress to be made after my own design, long plain sleeves, and high plain corsage, and requested that it should not be sent home till the evening of the ball. Before it came off Mr. Uxbridge called, and was graciously received by Aunt Eliza, who could be gracious to all except her relatives.
Still I suffered the annoyance of being stared at by wandering squads of young gentlemen, the "curled darlings" of the ball-room. I borrowed Mrs. Bliss's fan in one of her visits for a protection. With that, and the embrasure of a remote window where I finally stationed myself, I hoped to escape further notice.
"Flip, don't be flippant;" a remark which he has substituted for the "I'll lick you, Flip," of old days. "You dear old Blissidas, I think I've heard that pun once or twice before," observes Henderson, calmly pulling undone the bow of Bliss's necktie, and running off to escape retaliation, followed at his leisure by Whalley, who knows Bliss to be much too lazy to pursue the chase very far.
His lawyer brought up the point that the will should have had three witnesses, but I showed him the note, told him Mrs. Bliss's story, and declared that I would fight the case up to the Supreme Court if necessary. "There was no doubt in the mind of the registrar as to the authenticity of the will for was it not duly signed and witnessed by Dr.
Wilson did not follow the advice of the three Commissioners given him in General Bliss's letter, but that does not detract from the noteworthiness of the fact that in the case of Shantung he sought advice from his Commissioners. This ends the account of the Shantung Settlement and the negotiations which led up to it.
As the Characters which now follow are given with Bliss's text and notes, I add what the editor himself says of his method. Is a man in a small letter, yet the best copy of Adam before he tasted of Eve or the apple; and he is happy whose small practice in the world can only write this character. He is nature's fresh picture newly drawn in oil, which time, and much handling, dims and defaces.
James's eyeglass, speechless with horror over Lady Bliss's shoulder, glared like a frosty moon. Miss Bacchus, it seems, was his old acquaintance. She too called him Jimmy, and drove at him with vigour.
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