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What's the use of it all?" "She is young, I tell you," repeated Miss Cavendish, "and she's too sure of you. You've told her you care; now try making her think you don't care." Carroll shook his head impatiently. "I will not stoop to such tricks and pretence, Marion," he cried impatiently.
"But will he not allow us," he said, "to stay at home as usual? Surely " Lady Maxwell shook her head. "And Isabel?" she asked, "who will look after her when you are away?" "Mrs. Carroll?" he said interrogatively. Again she shook her head. "He would never consent," she said, "it would not be right." Isabel looked up suddenly, and her eyes brightened a little.
"But I must bid you good-night. This has been a fatiguing day, and I shall lose no time in getting to sleep." "Good-night. I hope you will sleep well, sir," said Herbert. "There won't be much sleep for me," he thought. Mr. Carroll lay down, and his deep, tranquil breathing soon assured our hero that he was asleep. He rose from his bed and examined the windows.
Timothy Carroll was a man altogether remarkable, even in that country of remarkable men. Of his past history little was known. At one time a Hudson Bay trader, then a freighter. At present he "ran" the Loon Lake Stopping Place and a livery stable, took contracts in freight, and conducted a general trading business in horses, cattle anything, in short, that could be bought and sold in that country.
Moriarty Carroll, who was perched upon the box with Ormond's servant, made excellent observations wherever he went. His English companion could not comprehend how a man of common sense could be ignorant of various things, which excited the wonder and curiosity of Moriarty.
"All right," he said, and he nodded and winked with intensest comprehension. "All right. You let me know." "Yes, I'll let you know when it is best to invest," repeated Carroll. He turned on the threshold. "See here," he said, "if I were you, I'd put that money in a bank. I wouldn't keep it here." "Oh, nobody knows it's here, except you, and you are safe, I ruther guess."
"I was not aware, sir," said the old lawyer stiffly, and with a positive glare, "that your detectives were such unmitigated asses as they now appear to be." "I fail to understand, Mr. Carroll," with considerable loftiness. "That confounded rascal Smith called to see me this morning, sir. He is a rogue, sir. He " "I beg your pardon, Mr. Carroll," protested Mr.
"I want to go to drive." Then Carroll came down-stairs and repeated his wife's orders. "Yes, Eddy, you must go to walk with your sister. I don't wish her to go alone," said he peremptorily. He still looked pale; he had grown thin during the last month. "I don't see why Charlotte don't get married, too, and have her husband to go with her," said Eddy, as he went out of the door.
He was miserable with a woe which he had not known how to explain to the priest, as he thought of his terrible condition. At first Pat Carroll and his friends had recommended themselves to him. He had, in truth, only come on the scene of devastation down by the lough, by mere accident.
"Yes," said Carroll, with the dignity of a dauntless spirit on the rack. "I hope your wife and family are well," said Fowler, further. "Quite well, thank you." "Let me see you are living in New York now?" "No, I am at present in Banbridge." "Banbridge?" "In New Jersey." "Let me see your family consists of your wife and a daughter and son?" "Two daughters and a son.
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