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Reed seemed to listen with a sort of calm interest, as if he had little doubt as to the result. Mr. Clapp's manner was much more anxious; but then he was perfectly aware of the suspicions against him, and knew that not only this particular case, but his whole prospects for life, were at stake on the present occasion. "Like most sailors, Mr. Stanley has kept but few papers," observed Mr. Reed.
"I am sure no one can complain of your actions, Kate, whatever your opinions may be," replied Charlie; and whatever might have been his estimate of Clapp's views, he forbore to utter a syllable on the subject; for he respected the wife's affection, and knew that his brother-in-law had at least one good quality he was kind and faithful as a husband and father, according to common-place ideas of faithfulness at least; for he would any day risk their character and peace, to make a little money.
"There: is certainly an air of confidence about those letters of Clapp's," said Harry, "as if he felt himself on a firm foothold. It is very extraordinary!" "Of course: he would never move in such a case, without some plausible proof," said Mr. Wyllys. "But how could he get any proof whatever, on this occasion?" said Mrs. Stanley.
When she came down, the old lady's blue eyes were tenderer, if that were possible, and her face very pale. She went into the library and asked her husband if she didn't prophesy this two years ago, and he said she did, and after a while asked her if she remembered the barbecue-night at Judge Clapp's thirty years ago. She blushed at that, and then went up and kissed him.
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"Nothing impossible, certainly; but the improbability of William Stanley's never applying to his father's executors, until he appeared, so late in the day, as Mr. Clapp's client, is still just as striking as ever in my eyes. Mr. Reed accounts for it, by the singular character of the man himself, and the strange, loose notions sailors get on most subjects; but that is far from satisfying my mind."
You remember Tom Friar's widow, Mrs. Elmore?" "Tom Friar's widow! Is Tom Friar dead?" "Why, of course! One of the first. I think it was Ball's Bluff. Well, she's married. But she married his cousin, and as Dick Burton says, that isn't so bad. Isn't it awful, Mrs. Clapp's losing all her boys, all five of them? It does seem to bear too hard on some families.
Wyllys, with strong indignation. Mrs. Stanley was listening with anxious eagerness for the opinion of the two gentlemen. "I am strongly disposed to mistrust anything that comes through Clapp's hands," said Harry, pacing the room thoughtfully, with the letters in his hand.
"Clapp smokes for his health. You see how stout and robust he is," said the editor, a little satirically. "It doesn't do me any harm," said Clapp, a little testily. "Oh, well, I don't interfere with you, though I think you would be better off if you should give up the habit. Ferguson don't smoke." This was the other compositor, a man of thirty, whose case was not far distant from Clapp's.
In this view, Ferguson, who proved to be a very judicious friend, fully concurred. Indeed Harry and he became more intimate than before, if that were possible, and they felt that Clapp's departure was by no means to be regretted. They were remarking this one day, when Mr. Anderson, who had been examining his mail, looked up suddenly, and said, "What do you think, Mr. Ferguson?
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