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Miss Van Tuyn talked with her usual assurance, but he fancied that her violet eyes were full of inquiry when they glanced at him; and he began to feel positive that the worst had happened, and that Fanny Cronin had informed her no, misinformed her of what had happened at Claridge's.
But it was not until he related the conversation he had had with her that evening about Miss Cronin that the old farmer began to talk a little. Ned could see he was proud of his daughter; he regretted that she had not gone to Oxford, and said she would have carried all before her if she had gone there.
Many people, not natives, had assured them that camels never travel by night, so they were the more unprepared for this unwelcome fact. The night travelling might not have mattered for younger people, but on old Mrs. Cronin the discomfort fell heavily. She had to be "forced out of her bed at one o'clock in the midst of the sharp cold of the night, and then have to ride when she ought to sleep.
There is as much cold, selfish cruelty in such coram publico endearments, as in the luscious display of rich rounds and sirloins in a chop-house to the eyes of the starved and penniless wretch without, who, with dripping rags and watering lip, eats imaginary slices, while the pains of hunger are torturing him! "There's Tim!" said Mr. Blake, suddenly. "Tim Cronin!
For these reasons they are now recognized as property in the law of good-will and unfair competition for customers, having been first formulated about the middle of the nineteenth century. The first case which recognized these expectancies of a labor market was Walker v. Cronin, decided by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1871.
"I rather imagine I can," drawled Sullivan. "Then if there's nothing more to be said, I move we start back to town. It must be late," Cronin asserted. "It's black enough to be midnight," grumbled Sullivan. "We'd best go directly to our houses I to mine and you to yours. The explosives and bombs I'll pack into two grips. Yours I'll hide in your back yard underneath that boat. How'll that be?"
She seemed suddenly restless, almost excited, and as if she were in a hurry. "There's one!" she added, lifting her tightly furled umbrella. The driver stopped, and in a moment they were on their way to the Ritz. "You like Dick Garstin?" said Braybrooke, pulling up one of the windows and wondering what Miss Cronin would say if she could see him at this moment.
He paused, wondering how to put it, yet feeling that he really must at all costs make matters fairly clear to his companion. "Yes?" said Miss Van Tuyn sweetly. "To-day, this afternoon, I think that your dear Miss Cronin failed once or twice to grasp my full meaning when I was talking with her." "Oh, Fanny! But she's an old fool!
"I have no reason whatever to suppose that Miss Van Tuyn is thinking of marriage at this moment," he said, in an almost shrill voice. "But surely you would not frighten me without a reason," said Fanny Cronin with mild severity, sitting back again in her chair. "Frighten you, dear Miss Cronin! I would not do that for the world. What have I said to frighten you?"
Dear Mademoiselle Cronin will expect you. Please wait for the lady!" Miss Van Tuyn was vaguely glad to hear him say that to the chauffeur. She got out and looked upwards. She saw a big block of flats towering up in front of her. "On the other side they face the river Thames," said Arabian. "All my windows except three look out that way. We will go up in the elevator."
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