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Now Ruperta had told her mother all; and her mother had not forbidden her to speak to Compton, but had insisted on reserve and discretion. She now told her mother she thought he would not speak to her any more, she had snubbed him so. "Dear me!" said Mrs. Bassett, "why did you do that? Can you not be polite and nothing more?" "No, mamma." "Why not? He is very amiable. Everybody says so." "He is.
It seems as if Compton Wynyate must have been written about in some novel or romance, perhaps in more than one of both. It is the place of all others to be the scene of a romantic story. It lies so hidden away among the hills that its vulgar name, according to old Camden, was "Compton in the Hole."
Alfred Compton is, as you perceive, not fit to marry any lady. In fact, I am his keeper." "Oh, Aunt Phoebe! Surely he was not a lunatic!" "So they said, Julia. His frantic terror was the only sign I saw of it; but Dr. Orman told my father that he was at times really dangerous, and that he was annually paid a large sum to take charge of him, as he became uncontrollable in an asylum."
"She thinks of me as I think of her, only as a good friend." At the office of the International Machine Company the work of the C.P.A.'s was drawing to a close. Their report would soon be ready to submit to Mr. Compton, and as the time approached Bince's nervousness and irritability increased.
They related the incident, which lost nothing of its repulsiveness by the relation: "And you saw no one." "No one alive, but I believe there was trickery. There must have been," said Compton, with knit brows. "I think so too, but the trick was horrible enough to produce the effect desired. I must say I felt a creepy sensation when I was down there yesterday."
He could not accuse Tillotson of inordinate ambition. But, though Tillotson was most unwilling to accept the Archbishopric himself, he did not use his influence in favour of Compton, but earnestly recommended Stillingfleet as the man fittest to preside over the Church of England.
Gerald looked out of the window and seemed to find everything very pleasant. 'I went to the play last night, he said. 'Kane took a party of us Helen, Miss Buchanan, Lord Compton, and Molly Fanshawe. What a good sort he is, Kane; a real character. 'You didn't get at him at all in the summer, did you? said Althea, in her deadened voice.
They were built to carry two people, who had to sit facing each other, and we therefore had to lay our big dog crosswise from window to window. The sights we saw from our whimsical nook surpassed anything we had imagined, and we arrived at our boarding-house in Old Compton Street agreeably stimulated by the life and the overwhelming size of the great city.
Compton left the office earlier than usual, complaining of a headache, and the next morning his daughter telephoned that he was ill and would not come to the office that day. During the morning as Bince was walking through the shop he stopped to talk with Krovac. Pete Krovac was a rat-faced little foreigner, looked upon among the men as a trouble-maker.
He, Compton says, believes that if Liddell could be persuaded such a line of conduct toward you would injure him socially, he would not seek to enforce his rights, for he is evidently anxious to make a position in the respectable world. As you make no opposition to his claims he ought to show you consideration.
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