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There is something about you women of the Elliston family that every once in a while makes me pause and reverence the Almighty," whereupon Aunt Constance flushed prettily, as became her. With the same earnestness of purpose Agnes handled the question of Bobby's breach-of-promise suit in so far as it affected his social reception.
"Yes," Cappy continued, "I had sort o' suspected she might pull that breach-of-promise stuff on you, Joey " "What made you suspect it?" "Why, I sort of suspected you were going to marry Doris Kenyon " "You planned to get us together on the same ship !" "Only place I could think of where you were safe from the Honolulu lady and couldn't run away from Doris, Joey.
A newsboy met Bobby on the train with the morning papers from home, and in them he read delightfully flavored and spiced accounts of the great Villenauve breach-of-promise case, embellished with many details that were entirely new to him. He had not counted on this phase of the matter, and it struck him almost as with an ague.
That belongs to yellow-backed penny-dreadfuls and Sunday supplement tales of breach-of-promise suits. More often the daughter of the business man is both the victim and the vampire of his own shortsighted neglectfulness. The business man expresses it as "working like a slave to give her the best in the land."
That breach-of-promise case of his three years ago, is, I hope and trust, forgotten, but the slightest slip on his part might start the papers talking about it again, and that would be fatal. The eventual successor to a title must be quite as careful as " It was not, as has been hinted above, the usual practice of Mr. Crocker to interrupt his wife when she was speaking, but he did it now. "Say!"
"I shouldn't mind being a partner," suggested Jimmy helpfully. "Why don't you get work on a paper again? You used to do that well." "I don't think my old paper would welcome me now. They regard me rather as an entertaining news-item than a worker." "That's true. Say, why on earth did you make such a fool of yourself over on the other side? That breach-of-promise case with the barmaid!" said Mr.
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 engaged!" had touched Mr. Peters and she wished to start proceedings. Mr. Peters felt almost in his depth again.
If down the highway I should press, beneath the summer skies, to rescue damsels in distress and wipe their weeping eyes, I'd win no praises from the sports; they'd call me a galoot; I'd have to answer in the courts to breach-of-promise suit. Adventure is a thing that's dead, we've reached a low estate, and I was born, alas!" he said, "five hundred years too late."
"Show him in, in just two minutes," Mary directed. "Who's the gink?" Aggie demanded, with that slangy diction which was her habit. "You ought to know," Mary returned, smiling a little. "He's the lawyer retained by General Hastings in the matter of a certain breach-of-promise suit."
Sometimes he would head the list with the name of his Cousin Percy Lord Stockheath who refused to talk of anything except his late breach-of-promise case and the effect the verdict had had on his old governor. Freddie was in no mood just now to be sympathetic with others on their breach-of-promise cases.
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