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P. Sybarite extracted an immense roll of bills from his pocket; transferred it to his other hand; delved deeper; eventually produced a single twenty-dollar gold-piece. "Take this," he said, tossing it to the boy with princely nonchalance. "It's the last of a lot, but it's yours." "What for?" Western Union demanded in amaze; while, as for George Bross, he developed plain symptoms of apoplexy.
Bross swelled with resentment; exhibited a distorted and empurpled visage; but kept silence. Pausing at the foot of the stoop, Miss Lessing looked up at the two young men and smiled. "Good-evening," she said with a pretty nod for P. Sybarite; and, with its fellow for George, "Good-evening, Mr. Bross," she added.
As they talked of Scotland it transpired that Dr Drummond knew all the braes about Bross as a boy he found himself more than ever annoyed with Finlay about the inequality of other things; and when they passed Knox Church and Miss Cameron told him she hadn't realized it was so imposing an edifice, he felt downright sorry for the woman.
In the stirring presidential campaign of 1856, Lincoln was particularly active, and rendered most efficient service to the Republican party. He spoke constantly, discussing the great question of "slavery in the territories" in a manner at once original and masterly. A graphic picture of one of these campaign gatherings is furnished by Hon. William Bross, afterwards Lieutenant-Governor of Illinois.
Bross turned and fled into the house. Confusion possessed him, and with it rage: stumbling blindly on the first flight of steps, he clawed the atmosphere with fingers that itched for vengeance. "I'll get even!" he muttered savagely "I'll get hunk with that boob if it's the last act of my life!" Fortunately, the hall was gloomy and at that moment deserted.
In some ways, as she sat there in her graceful dress and careless attitude, asking them direct smiling questions about their voyage, she imposed herself as of the class whom both these ladies of Bross would acknowledge unquestioningly to be "above" them; in others she seemed to be of no class at all; so far she came short of small standards of speech and behaviour.
Bross clamped a warm, moist hand round the plump arm of his charmer, and with masterful address propelled her from the curb in front of the theatre, where the little party had paused, to the northwest corner of Broadway: their progress consisting in a series of frantic rushes broken by abrupt pauses to escape annihilation in the roaring after-theatre crush of motor-cars.
Lincoln," said he, "I will never have any other partner while you live"; and to the day of the assassination all the doings of the firm were in the name of "Lincoln & Herndon." Governor Bross, of Illinois, relates that he was with Lincoln at Springfield on the day before he left for Washington.
At his side, George Bross, on his behalf, was nursing his private and personal grouch. Between them they manufactured an atmosphere of gloom that would have done credit to a brace of dumb Socialists. But presently Miss Prim and Miss Lessing appeared, and changed all that in a twinkling.
Maybe he's got her coin away from her, and she had to go to work for a livin'. Stranger things have happened in this burg, P.S." It was the turn of P.S. to hesitate in doubt; or at all events, so George Bross inferred from a sudden change in the expression of the little man's eyes. Momentarily they seemed to cloud, as if in introspection. But he rallied quickly enough.
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