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"The housing situation is a little tight just now," said Carson, "but we should be able to find quarters somewhere. The Grand Union is badly congested of weekends and rooming houses are full up. I live in the three west rooms of our old home and Mr. Breen and his family occupy the rest.
"Yes, that's one way of looking at it, Cory, but I tell you if Arthur Breen had had Jack with him these last few months ever since he left him, in fact, and had listened once in a while to what Jack thought was fair and square, the firm of A. B. & Co. would have a better hold on things than they've got now; and he wouldn't have dropped that million either.
"I am always governed by reason, Grace, and by right; and I have brought you up on that plan. If you have ever departed from it, it has not been with my consent, nor for want of my warning. I have simply laid the matter before you." "Then you wish me to marry him?" This was perhaps a point that had not occurred to Mrs. Breen in her recognition of the strength of Dr. Mulbridge's position.
Here is her father with every penny he has in the world in this work so Holker tells me and here are a lot of damages for dead men and Heaven knows what else; and there is Jack Breen with not a penny to his name except his month's wages; and here is Ruth who can marry anybody she chooses, bewitched by that boy and I grant you she has every reason for he is as brave as he can be, and what is better he is a gentleman.
Who taught you such nonsense?" His voice had risen with every sentence. In his indignation he looked twice his size. "Is not my money as good as that man Breen's who insults you when you go to him? and who laughed at you? Have I laughed at you? Does Mr. Grayson laugh?" Jack tried to interrupt, but the tailor's words poured on. "And now let me tell you one thing more, Mr. John Breen.
In the first place, the property is worthless, unless half a million of money is spent upon it." "Or is SAID to have been spent upon it," rejoined Peter with a smile, remembering the Breen methods. "Exactly so; and in the second place, I would rather tear up the deed than have it added to Uncle Arthur's stock of balloons." Peter drummed on the table-cloth and looked out of the window.
Some of the habitues in the orchestra chairs in Breen's office had cursed loud and deep when they saw their margins melt away; and one or two of the directors had broken out into open revolt, charging Breen with the fiasco, but most of the others had held their peace.
The gaining of this church building the largest and most important given the young architect since he had left Morris's protection and guidance decided Garry to give up at once his expensive quarters in New York and move to Corklesville. Corinne had cooed, wept, and then succumbed into an illness, but Breen had only replied: "No, let 'em paddle their own canoe."
Then her white teeth, and the way the head bent; and then his ears and how close they lay to his head; and the short, glossy hair with the faintest bit of a curl in it. And then the sudden awakening: Oh, yes it was the sugar Mr. Breen wanted, of course. What was I thinking of? And so the game went on, neither of them caring where the ball went so that it could be hit again when it came their way.
The little tailor threw out his hands each finger an exclamation point and laughed heartily, cutting short Peter's tirade. "No no we do none of these dreadful things to Mr. Breen; he is too good to be a saint," and he patted Jack's knees "and then again it is only the truth. Mr. Breen is quite right; we are a race of money-getters, and we are also the world's pawnbrokers and will always be.
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