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The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland's work except in so far as it touches upon his character. I cannot agree with the painters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by silence and a cheque-book.
"Don't cut the string just yet," he added, however, with an eye on Levy who instantly opened his. "I'll pay up!" he whispered, feebly yet eagerly. "It serves me right. I promise I'll pay up!" "Good!" said Raffles. "Here's your own cheque-book from your own room, and here's my fountain pen." "You won't take my word?" "It's quite enough to have to take your cheque; it should have been hard cash."
She was too near in that moment to resist perhaps he would not have resisted her in any case; for he had it not in his heart to think ill of her. "My darling," he said, "we will leave it at that. Only in the future trust me as I am trusting you." He turned to the table and closed the cheque-book. "These debts are my affair. I will settle them. Just tell me what they are."
It is I, then, I, as one of the partners of this house, who am to bestow a dowry upon her who has injured me, and make happy the avarice of my rival! Since the mimic stage first represented the actions of humanity, no such fate as that has ever been exhibited as the lot of man. Be it so. Bring hither the cheque-book.
"I will give you a draft on Uncle Cox," replied Don, taking out his cheque-book and fountain-pen. "You must feel rather bewildered, but the fact of the matter is that the lady chances to be the orphan of a very dear friend, and coming from a country place she has no idea of the cost of things. I would not disillusion her for the world, just yet.
Her small feet in their thin stockings seemed to her excited ears to be making the most hideous and unnatural noise on every step. If Nora heard! At last she was safe in her own room again. The door was locked, and the more agreeable part of the crime began. She drew out the new cheque-book lying in her own drawer, and very slowly and deliberately wrote a cheque.
On account of his cunning, his stolidity, his mighty muscle and ferocious appearance Qatim had been made bank-messenger in chief to the House of Zulannah, and had often stood at his mistress's side when she had taken the cheque-book from the drawer and made strange black marks on one of the pink leaves.
The Yorkshireman pulled open the drawer of his desk and slammed in the cheque-book, closing it with a bang. "Well, I'll give you nothing," he said, "neither mill nor money. You can clear out of here." He crossed the room to the telephone. "What are you going to do?" asked Pinto, secretly alarmed. "I'm going to send for the police," said the other grimly.
But Dr Pendle remained constantly at his desk in the library, and although the plotter actually saw the cheque-book at the elbow of his proposed victim, he was unable, without any good reason, to pick it up and satisfy his curiosity. He was therefore obliged to defer any attempt to obtain it until the next day, as the bishop would probably leave it behind him when he rode over to Southberry.
I had simply to get my three volumes of memoranda and my cheque-book, my luggage and underclothing, order a quantity of chemicals to work out this idea of mine I will show you the calculations as soon as I get my books and then I started. Jove! I remember the snowstorm now, and the accursed bother it was to keep the snow from damping my pasteboard nose."
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