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Bullsom rejoined, "and that is if you overwork yourself. You need a bit of looking after. You've got a rare head on your shoulders, and I'm proud to think that I was the one to bring your name before the committee. But I'm jolly well certain of one thing. You've done all the work a man ought to do in one day. Now listen to me.
Mary bit her lip. "Uncle, this is Lord Arranmore," she said. "Mr. Bullsom, my cousin, Miss Bullsom." Mr. Bullsom retained presence of mind enough to remove a new and very shiny silk hat, and to extend a yellow, dog-skinned gloved hand. "Very proud to meet your lordship," he declared. "I I wasn't aware " Lord Arranmore extricated his hand from a somewhat close grasp, and bowed to Selina.
I know nothing so stimulating to the appetite as politics, and to-day we have been so busy that I missed even my afternoon tea." "I'm sure that we are quite repaid for giving up our dinner," Selina remarked, with a backward glance at the young man. "Oh, here you are at last, Mary. I didn't hear you come in." "My niece, Miss Scott," Mr. Bullsom announced. "Now you know all the family."
"That is so," he admitted. "I am sorry to say that I cannot induce your niece to look upon a certain transaction between her father and myself from a business-like point of view. I think that you and I, Mr. Bullsom, might come to a better understanding. Will you give me an appointment? I should like to discuss the matter with you." "With the utmost pleasure, my lord," Mr.
You don't hear your mother talk like that." Selina whispered something under her breath which Mr. Bullsom, if he heard, chose to ignore. "I've explained to you all before," he continued, "that up to the end of last year we've been holding the entire property over a million pounds' worth, between five of us. Our time's come now. Now, look here I'll listen to what you've got to say all of you.
"Please don't talk any more horrid politics," Selina begged. "We want Mr. Brooks to give us a lesson at billiards. Do you mind?" Brooks rose at once. "I shall be charmed!" he declared. Mr. Bullsom rose also. "Pooh, pooh!" he said. "Brooks and I will have a hundred up and you can watch us. That'll be lesson enough for you." Selina made a little grimace, but they all left the room together.
Bullsom had carefully placed it there a few hours ago, was not extraordinary and Brooks sipped the wine with inward tremors, justified by the result. "I suppose, Mr. Brooks," Selina remarked, turning towards him in an engaging fashion, "that you are a great politician. I see your name so much in the papers." Brooks smiled. "My political career," he answered, "dates from yesterday morning.
"It didn't strike me as being anything extraordinary." "Not when he's coming here to dine to-night," Selina repeated, "and is a friend of papa's! Why, Mary, what nonsense." "I really don't see anything to make a fuss about," Mary said, going back to her magazine. Mr. Bullsom drew himself up, and laid down the paper with the paragraph uppermost.
Mr. Bullsom wrote begging him to spend a week-end at least at Woton Hall. He refused this and all other invitations. One day he took up a newspaper which was chiefly concerned with the doings of fashionable people, and Lady Caroom's name at once caught his eye.
I tell you that in a healthily-governed country there should be work for every man who is able and willing to work. And in England there isn't. Free Trade works out all right logically, but it's one thing to see it all on paper, and it's another to see this here around us and Medchester isn't the worst off by any means." Bullsom was silent for several moments.
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