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She had walked all the way from Park Straat in the shade of the trees quite a pedestrian feat for one who confessed to belonging to a carriage generation. She had boldly entered the restaurant of the little hotel, and had told the waiter to take her to Mr. Cornish's apartment. "It hardly matters what a very young waiter, at the beginning of his career, may think of us.
There was little in the way of higgling: for Cornish proudly refused much to discuss matters; and when we found what we must pay to prevent the explosion, it sickened us. Jim strongly urged upon Harper the taking of Cornish's shares. "No," said Harper, "the Frugality and Indemnity is too good a thing to drop; and I can't carry both.
The proprietor of the Cafe de l'Europe now came out in answer to Cornish's rap on the iron table, and presently brought a small bottle of brandy. "Yes," said Cornish, pouring out the spirit, which his companions drank in its undiluted state from small tumblers "yes, I'm glad to meet an Englishman. I suppose you are in the works the Malgamite?" "I am. And what do you know about malgamite, mister?"
Even Giddings, to me, seemed to remain unduly intimate with Cornish; but this did not affect the utterances of his paper, which still maintained what he called the policy of boost. The behavior of Josie, however, was enigmatical. Cornish's attentions to her redoubled, while Jim seemed dropped out of the race and therefore my wife's relations with Miss Trescott were subjected to a severe strain.
"Yesterday," continued Von Holzen, "I met an old acquaintance a Miss Wade one of the young ladies of a Pensionnat at Dresden, in which I taught at one time. She is a daughter of the banker Wade, and told me, reluctantly, that she is at The Hague with her father a friend of Cornish's.
In Cornish's world sincere enthusiasm was so rare that it was never well received. Roden's manner changed again, however, and he explained the plan of the little village with his usual half-indifferent air. "These two buildings are the factories," he said. "In them three hundred men can work at once. There we shall build sheds for the storage of the raw material. Here we shall erect a warehouse.
"You've just got to win," said Giddings, who was admitted to the secret of Cornish's embassy, "not only because Lattimore and all the citizens thereof will be squashed in the event of your slipping up; but, what is of much more importance, the Herald will be laid in a lie about your Wall Street pull. Remember that when foes surround thee!"
Vansittart, rising from her seat, walked down to the main pathway, which commanded an uninterrupted view. That which had attracted Cornish's attention was a funeral, cheap, sordid, and obscure, which moved slowly across the Oude Weg by the road, crossing it at right angles. It was a peculiar funeral, inasmuch as it consisted of three hearses and one mourning carriage.
He apparently had no intention of replying to Cornish's telegram, arguing very philosophically in his mind that he would go if he could, and if he could not, it would not matter very much.
Albans," "The Chronicle of Jocelyn of Brokeland," "The Old Road," Hewitt's "Ancient Armour," Coussan's "Heraldry," Boutell's "Arms," Browne's "Chaucer's England," Cust's "Scenes of the Middle Ages," Husserand's "Wayfaring Life," Ward's "Canterbury Pilgrims;" Cornish's "Chivalry," Hastings' "British Archer," Strutt's "Sports," Johnes Froissart, Hargrove's "Archery," Longman's "Edward III," Wright's "Domestic Manners."
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