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At the door Fulkerson added: "By-the-way, the new man the fellow that's taken my old syndicate business will want you to keep on; but I guess he's going to try to beat you down on the price of the letters. He's going in for retrenchment. I brought along a check for this one; I'm to pay for that." He offered Beaton an envelope. "I can't take it, Fulkerson. The letter's paid for already."
For the rest, he was a witty, florid little individual, and much addicted to a practice of what he called "embellishing" whatsoever he had to say a feat which he performed with the aid of such by-the-way phrases as "my dear sir," "my good So-and-So," "you know," "you understand," "you may imagine," "relatively speaking," "for instance," and "et cetera"; of which phrases he would add sackfuls to his speech.
He showed his brother a dozen of Ivan's hasty notes of excuse, as he said, soothingly: "Come, Nikolai, come! What does it signify? Ivan Mikhailovitch is working very hard; and rehearsals are bothersome things. I shall smooth away the difficulties and have the orchestra perfectly familiar with his symphony which, by-the-way, goes very well.
"'I saw that she, too, was goin' to try to keep up with Lizzie, an' I decided that I'd help her. When we arrived at the villa we made our way to its front door through a pack of collie dogs out for an airing. "'By-the-way, I said, when we sat down to luncheon at Bill's house, 'congratulate me. I'm a candidate for new honors. "'Those of a husband?
"Oh, yes, I've heard it from several. Mr. Windham approves it, and I just heard Bullion speak of it. A solid man is Bullion; a man of few words, but all his words tell; they drop like shot." "Mr. Windham was good enough to speak of it to me to-day; but I haven't made up my mind. In fact, it will be time enough when the nomination is offered to me. By-the-way, Mr.
"Nothing so vulgar," said Henriette. "Just a little management that's all. And, by-the-way, Bunny, when you get a chance, please hire twenty safe-deposit boxes for me in as many different trust companies here and in New York and don't have 'em too near together. That's all for the present."
The courtly old gentleman had inquired about madam indeed, the second glass had been dedicated to "mother and child" and he exhibited a friendly and almost paternal interest, as he always did, in Jack. "By-the-way," he said, after a silence, "is Henderson in town?" "I haven't heard. Why?" "There's been a good deal of uneasiness in the Street as to what he is doing.
But Solon merely cocked one ear, and remained a fixed fact; for long experience had induced the philosophic beast to take for his motto the Yankee maxim, "Be sure you're right, then go ahead!" He knew things were not right; therefore he did not go ahead. "Oh, by-the-way, girls, don't forget to pay Tommy Mullein for bringing up the cow: he expects it to-night.
I said this because it is one of the first things we brag of to foreigners, and I had the habit of it. "By-the-way," I ventured to add, "I suppose you meant to say you brought two checks when I asked you for them at the train just now? But you really said you bought them." "Yes," the Altrurian replied, "I gave half a dollar apiece for them at the station in Boston.
"She says she will, but I couldn't make her understand anything I wanted. She is off her head! They all are. By-the-way, did you hear of Madeleine Alcot's. telegram to Worth?" "No." Kitty laughed a laugh musical but malicious. Mrs. Alcot, married in the same month as herself, had been her companion and rival from the beginning.
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