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People had done so, I was aware; and people, probably, would continue to do so; but not hard-headed, hard-hearted men, such as Robert Elmsdale was reputed to have been. He was not so old that the achievement of a second success should have seemed impossible. His credit was good, his actual position unsuspected.
Elmsdale's hands by other paths than those leading through Basinghall or Portugal Streets; but they merely proved the rule. Notably amongst these fortunate persons may be mentioned a Mr. Harrison and a Mr. Harringford 'Arrison and 'Arringford, as Mr. Elmsdale called them, when he did not refer to them as the two Haitches. Of these, the first-named, after a few transactions, shook the dust of Mr.
He turned in, weary with his exertions to be sure, but with the pleasing consciousness that ...some one done Has earned a night's repose. Elmsdale never learned these particulars, however. His genial and expansive smile and the unobtrusive manner of his fading away are there vaguely associated with Cheshire Puss, of joyful memory, whose disappearance, like his, began with the end of the tale.
"In equity, and at law, he had then the power of foreclosing on every house and rood of ground I owned. I was in his power in the power of Robert Elmsdale. Think of it . But you never knew him. Young man, you ought to kneel down and thank God you were never so placed as to be in the power of such a devil "If ever you should get into the power of a man like Robert Elmsdale, don't offend him.
As frequently proves the case, the favourite failed to come in first: that was all Mr. Harringford knew about the matter. Mr. Elmsdale never mentioned how much he had lost in fact, he never referred again, except in general terms, to their meeting. He stated, however, that he must have money, and that immediately; if not the whole amount, half, at all events.
The only son of a very small builder who managed to leave a few hundred pounds behind him for the benefit of Elmsdale, then clerk in a contractor's office, he had seen enough of the anxieties connected with his father's business to wash his hands of bricks and mortar.
Elmsdale; but I knew afterwards he picked me out as a person likely to be useful to him. "He was on good terms with my employers, and asked them to allow me to bid for some houses he wanted to purchase at a sale. "To this hour I do not know why he did not bid for them himself. He gave me a five-pound note for my services; and that was the beginning of our connection.
Elmsdale, he encloses a draft on London for the principal and interest of the amount due." "Very creditable to him," I remarked. "What is the amount, sir?" "Oh! the total is under a hundred pounds," answered Mr. Craven; "but what I meant by saying the affair seemed curious is this: amongst Mr. Elmsdale's papers there was not an I O U of any description."
Craven as well as any other. It is all over now; and better so; life is but a long fever. Perhaps he will sleep now, and let me sleep too. Yes, I killed him. Why, I will tell you. Give me some wine. "What I said at the inquest about owing my worldly prosperity to him was true. I trace my pecuniary success to Mr. Elmsdale; but I trace also hours, months, and years of anguish to his agency.
"To Miss Blake's!" he repeated. "Why do you want to go there?" "I want to see Miss Elmsdale," I answered, quietly enough, though I felt the colour rising in my face as I spoke. "You had better put all that nonsense on one side, Patterson," he remarked. "What you have to do is to make your way in the world, and you will not do that so long as your head is running upon pretty girls.
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