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Lightener was angry angry because Bonbright's father had rejected his proposition to manufacture engines; more angry at the way Mr. Foote had spoken concerning his son. In the back of Lightener's mind was the thought that he would show a Foote.... Just what he would show him was not determined. Bonbright came in. He was not the Bonbright of six months before.
She was leaking it along the way as she sought the mercenary to pour it into her ears. Hilda was driving, not to her home, but to Bonbright Foote's office. Dulac was on his way to Bonbright's office, too. He had started before Hilda, and arrived before she did. If he had been asked why he was going, it is doubtful if he could have told.
Bonbright's eyes did not leave Dulac's. It seemed minutes before Dulac made another forward movement, slowly, not lifting his foot, but sliding it along the rug to its new position.... Then immovability.... Then another feline approach. Step after step, with that tense pause between and silence!
Waiting for it to pass will be easier that way.... Now spit it out." He was studying the boy with his bright gray eyes, wondering if this was the row he had been expecting. He more than half hoped, as he would have expressed it, "that the kid had got his back up." Bonbright's face, his bearing, made Lightener believe his back WAS up. "I've got to have a job " "You said that once. Why?"
He could appreciate what Bonbright's mother's presence would contribute to the episode. " and she was worse than father. She it was ROTTEN, Mr.
They did not commit themselves so far but that a drawing back and realignment would be possible... No little part of Bonbright's day was spent with reporters. The news came to every house in the city. It came even to Mrs. Moody's obscure boarding house, and the table buzzed with it. It mounted the stairs with Mrs.
There were four of the men whom Mershon led through the door into Bonbright's office, but Bonbright saw but one of them-Dulac! The young man half rose from his chair, then sat down with his eyes fixed upon the man into whose hands, he believed, his wife had given herself. It was curious that he felt little resentment toward Dulac, and none of that murderous rage which some men might have felt....
It means a willingness to give up thinking for myself and accept YOUR thoughts and shape my life by them. It means being a figurehead as long as you live and a replica of yourself when you are gone. That's it, isn't it?" "That is it," said Mr. Foote, shortly. "You are rid of that woman. ... I am willing to give you another chance." Bonbright's hold upon himself was firm.
He soon discovered himself to be all but unequipped for the effort.... It was a saving quality of Bonbright's that he would admit his own futilities. Therefore he called to conference the country's greatest sociologist, Professor Witzer.
Hilda took the slight form in her arms and rocked her to and fro, while she thought.... "Yes," she said, sorrowfully, "you can't go to him now.... It would look oh, why couldn't his father have made a will, as he was going to?... If he'd left his old money to charity or something.... We thought he had.... But there has been no will. Everything is Bonbright's...."
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