United States or Montenegro ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"I know" Patsy nodded wisely, as if she had been following the case professionally herself "but there is often a last rallying of strength. Isn't there?" "Sometimes. I hardly think there will be anything very lasting in Mr. Burgeman's case. There are moments, now, when his strength and will are remarkably vigorous any other man would be in his bed." "Oh! Then he is up?"
It was beginning to seem years ago since she had sat in Marjorie Schuyler's den listening to Billy Burgeman's confession of a crime for which he had not sounded in the least responsible. That was on Tuesday. It was now Friday three days seventy-two hours later. She preferred to think of it in terms of hours it measured the time proportionally nearer to the actual feeling of it.
You see, he'd been Burgeman's secretary for almost twenty years, given him the best years of his life slaved for him lied for him made money for him. Billy said his father regarded him as an excellent piece of office machinery, and treated him as if he were nothing more.
Word Of The Day