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She couldn't tell him why their faultless friend was so isolated, so unrelated, so nervously, shrinkingly proud. Everard Ryves, who was a "most rising" young man in the city, not making any year less than his clear twelve hundred. "Now that he isn't there to make them, his mourning widow can't live as she had then, can she?" Mrs. Bundy asked.
Shall you stay in school?" "No; I can't afford it. I must get to work." "Isn't there anything left not a cent?" "There may be a few dollars." "And then," said Bundy with a sudden thought, "there is this casket of jewelry. You can sell it for a good deal of money." "I don't mean to sell it." "Then you're a fool; that's all I've got to say."
Bert, his eyes starting out of his head and his mouth wide open, was devouring the contents of a paper called The Chronicles of Crime. Ned Dawson, a poor devil who was paid fourpence an hour for acting as mate or labourer to Bundy, or the bricklayers, or anyone else who wanted him, lay down on the dirty floor in a corner of the room and with his coat rolled up as a pillow, went to sleep.
For a long time all trace of the runaway couple was lost, but one day the man having gone down to the plain to steal cattle, it was alleged, was discovered by some farmers who knew him, and who gave hot chase, coming up with him at the place now called Big Indian. Foremost in the chase was Bundy.
May Sutton Bundy and Miss Mary Kendall Browne, our former champions, heard the challenge and, laying aside the duties of everyday life, buckled on the armour of the courts and journeyed East to do battle with the French wonder girl. Mrs. Mallory, filled with a desire to avenge her defeat in France, sailed for home in time to play in the American championship.
She liked the Indian all the better after that, however, because Bundy proved to be a bad fellow, and believing that she could be happier among barbarians than among a people that approved such marriages, she eloped with Winnisook.
Everyone asked for 'the same again, but the landlord served Easton, Bundy and the Besotted Wretch with pints instead of half-pints as before, so there was no change out of the shilling. 'You know, there's a great deal in not bein' used to the board, said the Semi-drunk. 'There's no disgrace in bein' beat by a man like 'im, mate, said Philpot. ''E's a champion!
This gave rise to a conversation between Crass, Bundy, and one or two others concerning the chances of different horses in the morrow's races. It was Friday, and no one had much money, so at the suggestion of Bundy, a Syndicate was formed, each member contributing threepence for the purpose of backing a dead certainty given by the renowned Captain Kiddem of the Obscurer.
"Gentlemen, I came here to press the hand of one of Nature's noblemen, my tried friend, the Honorable Asa Bundy, whom we have just seen retreating to his precincts, as I might say, with a modesty that is rarely beautiful. But no matter." Here the Colonel mounted the top step and glowed out upon his faithful and ever enlarging band.
"No, I never heard." "I wish you'd find out and let me know. You can send the letter to Joel Phipps, Groveton. Then find out if it's easy to get such a chance." "I will. I shall be glad to oblige you." "You always was obligin', Rodney. I've asked Jack Bundy to do it you know his folks live in the city but he never would. He's a mighty disagreeable boy. He never liked you." "Didn't he?"
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