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"Bowker is one of the big men in the Faith Insurance Company, and Tyler is president of the Gotham Trust." He paused to light a cigarette, and smiled at her significantly. "If you can dolly the ladies along once in a while, Honora, it won't do any harm," he added. "You have a way with you, you know, when you want to." Honora grew scarlet. "Howard!" she exclaimed. He looked somewhat shamefaced.
While passing through the country they were further reinforced by a band of stout burghers, and by four brothers named Bowker. There were originally seven brothers of this family, who afterwards played a prominent part in the affairs of the colony.
I was talking to a friend when suddenly I felt as if something awful was about to happen. I started up, and saw Bowker just rising from a table at the far end of the room. I shan't ever forget his look, like a bird charmed by a snake. His lips were ajar and wrinkled as if his blood had fled away inside of him, and his throat was expanding and contracting."
"He must be brought to a sense of honor of decency! He must! Do you hear? It was your fault, I am sure. If he does not marry you are ruined!" "He came over this morning," pursued Margaret. "He wanted to marry me at once." "You should have given him no chance to change his mind again," cried Madam Bowker. "What a trifler you are! No seriousness!
"Now Doed had heerd his mother tell about his Uncle Ned, an' when t' lad said that Ned Bowker were his father, he gat a bit aisier in his mind; but for all that he didn't altogether like t' looks o' him. Howiver, they gat agate o' talkin', and Doed let on that he were fearful fain o' squirrels.
He cabled from Colombo to Wentworth to wait for him at Bowker Creek, hinted that if he went to the coast he would have him arrested, and said something vague about coming to an understanding which induced Wentworth to obey orders. "Then he came straight here and pressed on to Rollandstown, taking Beelzebub with him to show him the short cuts. It's a hard day's ride in any case.
"I have promised," said she, and her expression would have thrilled Lucia. Madam Bowker was singularly patient with this evidence of sentimentalism. "That's fine and noble of you. But you didn't realize what a grave step you were taking, and you " "Yes, but I did. If ever anything was deliberate on a woman's part, that engagement was." A bright spot burned in each of the girl's cheeks.
"Nothing so stupid and silly as regret," said Margaret, with placid philosophy of manner. "I, too, could think of things I regret. But I'm putting my whole mind on the future." "Future!" Madam Bowker laughed. "Why, my child, you have no future. Within two years you'll either be disgracefully divorced, or the wife of a little lawyer in a little Western town."
Trapes, clutching at her elbows, "y' never mean as you're leavin' Mulligan's now the rent's been took down re-dooced fifty per cent. by order?" "That's just what I'm tellin' ye oh, Ann, ain't it just heavenly!" "Heavenly!" repeated Mrs. Trapes, and sank into a chair. "Yes, heavenly t' see th' trees an' flowers again t' live among them, Ann." "Samanthy Bowker what do you mean?"
In the Severence family, at the homestead, there were, besides five servants, but three persons the widowed Roxana and her two daughters, Margaret and Lucia Lucia so named by Madam Bowker because with her birth ended the Severence hopes of a son to perpetuate in the direct line the family Christian name for its chief heir.
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