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He would certainly have adorned it, but it had no attraction for him. Nevertheless he was a member of the Olympus Club, where he frequently spent his evenings. But he made very few acquaintances even there, and I believe that except myself, Jack Ashton, Henry Darton, and Will Church, he had no intimates. And we knew him only at the club.
Who do you say Sally is going to be married to a Farmer Darton? 'Yes a gentleman-farmer quite a wealthy man. Far better in station than she could have expected. It is a good thing, altogether. 'Well done, little Sal! said her brother, brightening and looking up at her with a smile. 'I ought to have written; but perhaps I have thought of you all the more. But let me get out of sight.
At last he withdrew for the night, going off to the roadside inn half-a-mile back, whither Darton promised to follow him in a few minutes. Half-an-hour passed, and then Mr. Darton also rose to leave, Sally and her sister-in-law simultaneously wishing him good-night as they retired upstairs to their rooms. But on his arriving at the front door with Mrs.
It was not unlike the minister's voice, I thought; and, my glance chancing to fall on the opened Bible, I was about to question him, when the door was pushed back hurriedly, admitting my father's lank, wiry figure along with a stream of chilling air. "G-ood morning, Mr. Breighton a f-ine morning." "Morning, Darton," said my father crisply. "Can I go directly upstairs?" "No hurry n-ow, Doctor.
Neither name nor description not the announcement of the benevolent publishers, "Darton, Harvey, and Darton" can recover the faintest traces of their vestiges.
"I'll send something, of course," she said; "you will take it to them. But I'll not go." With her message and her money I sought out Lin Darton and Miss Etta, and together we rambled in their open Ford along those flat, dead Illinois roads that I had not seen for so long. It is a doctor's profession to save life, and there was a life to be saved, if it were possible.
Her countenance expressed dismay, and her first words were an apology. 'I did not know you were here, Mr. Darton, she said, while a blush flashed to her cheek. 'I thought every one had retired I was coming to make a little water boil; my husband seems to be worse. But perhaps the kitchen fire can be lighted up again. 'Don't go on my account.
'Unstrap the baskets, or you'll smash up that wine! cried Darton, as the young man began spasmodically to climb the post, baskets and all. 'Was there ever less head in a brainless world? said Johns.
As I recall it in late years, I often wonder how my father could have mistaken the lying, rancorous woman of Con Darton's description for this stern-lipped creature, who had gone by wordlessly, shutting the door gently behind her, a door that she was never to re-open. I turned to find myself alone in the room. Mr. Darton had disappeared as unexpectedly but more quietly than he had entered.
'These straps plough my shoulder like a zull. If 'tis much further to your lady's home, Maister Darton, I shall ask to be let carry half of these good things in my innerds hee, hee! 'Don't you be such a reforming radical, Enoch, said Johns sternly. 'Here, I'll take the turkey.
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