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Blake, the university man whom father considered so far in advance of any classical master Miss Burridge could afford, he was induced so long as he was staying at Woodleigh to bring on May with her Latin and Greek." "So far so good," said Mrs. Millar, in her excitement borrowing one of her husband's brisk, cut and dry phrases.
Aldous Raeburn was a person whom everybody respected; confidences were safe with him; and he was himself deeply interested in the affair. The Raeburns being the Raeburns, with all that that implied for smaller people in Brookshire, little Mr. Burridge was aware of no reason whatever why Westall's employers should not know that, although Mr.
Then one October evening, strolling about the East End, I met him coming out of a little Chapel in the Burdett Road. He was so changed that I should not have known him had not I overheard a woman as she passed him say, "Good-evening, Mr. Burridge." A pair of bushy side-whiskers had given to his red face an aggressively respectable appearance.
From that day on he took a set against me, and he ain't never spoke a word to me since." I was unaware that there was anything besides a religious disagreement in this local situation until one day I happened to come into a second friendly contact with the postmaster. We were speaking of the characteristics of certain individuals, and I mentioned Burridge.
I watched Kennedy's face. Evidently his mind was at work on the same idea as mine. Burke accompanied us almost all the way home, with Sydney adding his urging. I could tell that the whole combination of circumstances at the Burridge had had an effect on Kennedy. I went to bed, tired, but through the night I knew Craig was engaged on some work about which he seemed to be somewhat secretive.
It was, in other respects, a very undesirable residence, the furniture consisting of merely a couple of rough stools and a bench, with a rickety table. "I am afraid, sir, we've fallen out of the frying-pan into the fire," observed Burridge, as he surveyed the apartment.
At the table next to us and the tables at the Burridge were so close that one almost rubbed elbows with those at the next sat a party of four, two ladies in evening gowns and two men in immaculate black and white. "I hope you are right, Leontine," returned one of the men, with an English accent. "The natural place for the islands is under the American flag, anyway."
"It cannot be helped," observed Burridge, "and `what cannot be cured, must be endured, as my old woman used to say when she allowed the porridge to burn on the fire.
"He's all right when you take him the way he wants to be taken. When you don't you'll find him quite a different man." "He seems to be straightforward and honest," I said. "There ain't anything you can tell me about Elihu Burridge that I don't know," he replied feelingly. "Not a thing. I've lived with him, as you might say, all my life.
They were always talking of his rise, frequently in the presence of Burridge. He said nothing at first, pretending to believe that his quondam leadership was unimpaired. Again, there were those who, having followed the various branches of labor which Palmer eventually consolidated, viewed this growth with sullen and angry eyes.
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