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He scorned her for her weakness in yielding to what he termed the "dally-faddle" of the book-agent, and he doubly scorned her for repudiating her former testimony. The moral side of the matter was obscure to him; it made no appeal.
Hamilton clapped the old gentleman on the shoulder and declared, "When you come others can wait." Tom Burton flushed deeply. "I er well, I've had a notice of over-draft from my bank." Hamilton Burton's brows contracted. "Did they keep you sitting here, cooling your heels like a book-agent until I arrived? Why didn't you go direct to Corbin?
"Yes, sir." "This man Morgan, the book-agent, who had been boarding with you, had paid his bill and gone away?" "Yes, sir." "And there was absolutely nobody in the house that night but yourself and Joe Newbolt?" "Nobody else."
No; I guess I won't contribute regularly. I have thought sometimes maybe I might do a little work as a book-agent, so's to pick up a few stray dollars. But I never had a fair chance offered to me, and I didn't care enough about it to hunt it up; and so nothing ever came of it. I could make a good book fairly hum around this globe, though, don't you think?" "Were you ever married?
A peaceful farming country this, but an unremunerative field, one would say, for the colporteur and the book-agent; and winter must inclose it in a lonesome seclusion. The only other thing of note the Bras d'Or offered us before we reached West Bay was the finest show of medusm or jelly-fish that could be produced.
The man was beginning to get on his nerves. He seemed to be dogging his footsteps with ceaseless persistency. "That feller over there in the corner," said Jones, softly, "is a book-agent from your town. He sold me a set of Dickens when he was here last time, about six weeks ago. A year's subscription to two magazines throwed in. By gosh, these book-agents are slick ones.
The book-agent ran like a deer for a hundred yards and fell grovelling upon the turf, the laugh still griping him with the energy of a panther's jaws, while Claude, who, in blind pursuit, had come threshing into his father's arms, pulled his hat over his eyes and strode away towards the skiff ferry. As Mr. Tarbox returned towards the cottage, St.
They ranged from moving trunks to cleaning cisterns, and, by grace of all of them, Sim was doing very well. When Sim Harrison heard of his daughter's public confession of shameful conduct with her book-agent boarder, he was a highly scornful man.
"Thank you," responded a masculine voice, in quiet amusement; "Miss Thorne is kind and generous." Ruth's cheeks flushed hotly. "I don't know whether Miss Thorne will go down or not," she said to herself. "It's probably a book-agent." She rocked pensively for a minute or two, wondering what would happen if she did not go down.
Miranda looked into the leaping flame of her fire and saw brightest pictures of the future, until suddenly she turned her head away and covered her face with her hands, groaning bitterly: it was only a blackened limb that, standing tall and straight in the flame, took upon itself a grotesque resemblance to a one-armed man. And Miranda remembered her affianced the book-agent.
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