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Giving the workman opportunity for no more than an occasional monosyllable in reply, he poured forth a flood of information about his estate: The architectural features of his house the cost; the loveliness of his trees the cost; the coloring of his flowers the cost; the magnificence of his view, And all the while he studied his caller's face with sharp, furtive glances, trying to find some clew to the purpose of the workman's visit.
"Well, seriously, Ramsey, there's only one Caller's Night before vacation, and so I suppose it hardly will be worth while; but I expect you'll see quite a little of her at home this summer?" "No, I won't. I won't see her at all. She isn't goin' to be home this summer, and I wouldn't see anything of her if she was." "Where's she goin' to be." "In Chicago." "She is?" said Fred, slyly.
Lornievitch spoke English an English much to the caller's liking. Perhaps it was the bond of bulk between them. "Well, and so you are Boylan of the Rhodes? what is it, Mr. Boylan? We are very busy." "I have a young friend of The States" he began and talked for three minutes talked until Lornievitch squirmed and his aides hurried forward ready to assist. "And what does Kohlvihr say?"
Never a particularly cheerful person, at Red Hoss' soft knock upon his outer door he raised a countenance completely clothed in moroseness where not clothed in whiskers and grunted briefly a sound which might or might not be taken as an invitation to enter. Nor was his greeting, following upon the caller's soft-footed entrance, calculated to promote cordial intercourse.
Montgomery smothered a smile, and listened, unruffled, to his caller's proposal. "My idea now," he went on, "is to call a mass meeting in the Town Hall some day next week, the sooner the better. I'll be the chairman or Mr. Emerson or you, I don't care who it is. We'll put before the people all the points you've taken up in your articles.
Heatherbloom's head tilted a little; he surveyed the detail with the look of a connoisseur. She colored, went; but remained in the hall to peer. There were many articles of virtu lying around on tables or in cabinets and the caller's appearance was against him. He would bear watching; he had the impudence Just fancy his sitting there in a chair!
Be this as it may, as soon as Mr. Sublette had heard his caller's version of the meeting upon the porch he lost no time in taking certain legal steps.
What are your qualifications as a cook any way? 'Qualifications! he replied, 'why, don't you know I've got varicose veins? My caller's qualifications are of an equally negative description, though not of a physical kind. He is one of the young Micawbers, to whom the Department from its first inception has been the something which was to turn up.
But the bird rose with dripping pinions, its talons empty. "You didn't get any one that time!" murmured the captain. Through the silent house echoed the vibration of the electric bell, sounding unnecessarily loud, it seemed. The maid who answered took the caller's card to Miss Mary Carwell, Viola's aunt. "He wants to see Miss Viola," the servant reported. "Shall I tell her?" "You had better, yes.
Rosy was passed in review and then dexterously dispensed with, after having aroused the caller's interest and approval; and the subsequent talk ran along quite freely on the child's deserts and prospects. Mrs.
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