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Everybody knows of it! She's got the right the legal right to hold him, hasn't she?" His uncle regarded him with a quizzical smile. "Why, ye-es," he answered, "I cal'late she has, maybe. Course, there's no danger of his wantin' to do such a thing, but if he should I presume likely we could make it uncomfortable for him, anyhow. What are you hankerin' for, Steve a breach-of-promise suit?
Wouldn't you be ashamed if you opened your Sunday paper and came upon a full page article about your nephew having got intoxicated at the races and fought a book-maker having broken up a political meeting having been sued for breach-of-promise by a barmaid . . ." Mrs. Crocker preserved her well-bred calm, but she was shaken.
"We are speaking of the Stockheath breach-of-promise case, Miss Simpson, of which you doubtless read in the newspapers. Lord Stockheath is a nephew of ours. I fancy his lordship was greatly shocked at the occurrence." "He was," chimed in Mr. Judson from down the table. "I happened to overhear him speaking of it to young Freddie.
Except for the barking of a distant dog, the faint wailing of a waltz, the rustle of a roosting bird, and the sound of Plummer saying that if her refusal was due to anything she might have heard about that breach-of-promise case of his a couple of years ago he would like to state that he was more sinned against than sinning and that the girl had absolutely misunderstood him, all was still. "Psst!
"You mean the other way around: you would ride in my carriage and I should have to start a breach-of-promise case against 'Dr. Levinsky. You'll have to look for a bigger fool than I," she concluded, with a smile It was an attractive smile, full of good nature and common sense. A smile of this kind often makes a homely face pretty. Gussie's did not.
Aunt Mary eyed her sharply, not to say furiously. "I wish you’d give a plain answer when I ask you a plain question, Lucinda," she said coldly. "If you’d ever got a breach-of-promise suit in the early mail you’d know how I feel. Perhaps—probably."
"You had better look out, for his watery eyes will soon be on you." Miss Lazar lowered her head and burst into a confused giggle "You're a holy terror," she declared. I was tempted to take her out into the night and hug and kiss her and tell her that she was a nuisance, but the fear of a breach-of-promise suit held me in leash I rose to go.
In a nebulous kind of way he began to understand that the girl had come to consult the firm about a breach-of-promise action. Some unknown man at Ealing West had been trifling with her heart hardened lawyer's clerk as he was, that poignant cry "I'm not even engaged!" had touched Mr. Peters and she wished to start proceedings. Mr. Peters felt almost in his depth again.
She dropped claw, fork, and popular air to stare open-mouthed at Gabe. Then a slow, uncertain smile crept about her lips, although her eyes were still unsmiling. "Stop your joking, Gabie," she said. "Some day you'll say those things to the wrong lady, and then you'll have a breach-of-promise suit on your hands." "This ain't no joke, Effie," Gabe had replied. "Not with me it ain't.
He had subsequently endured two breach-of-promise suits, had broken the state automobile record for number of speed violation arrests, had been buncoed, badgered, paneled, blackmailed and short-carded out of sums varying between one hundred and ten thousand dollars; and now, in the year of grace, 19 , was the horror of the pulpit and the delight of the press of the city which he called his home.
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