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Elmsdale very little harm a money-lender is not usually spoken of in much pleasanter terms by those who once have been thankful enough for his cheque; and the world in general does not attach a vast amount of importance to the opinions of a former borrower. Mr. Harrison did not, therefore, hurt or benefit his quondam friend to any appreciable extent; but with Mr.
At all events, Miss Elmsdale could not have heard him whining in the library so called." "She might have heard some other dog," said Miss Blake. "As a matter of fact, however, she stated to you there was no dog in the room." "She did. But I don't think she knew whether there was or not." "In any case, she did not see a dog; you did not see one; and the servants did not."
Craven, was aware of the fact, and he had promised faithfully to keep my secret. Where, then, had Miss Elmsdale obtained her information? from whom had she learned that I was bent on solving the mystery of the "Uninhabited House"? I puzzled myself over these questions till my brain grew uneasy with vain conjectures.
Even putting the undoubted fact of all lawyers keeping one unprofitable client into the scales, if he had not been very good he must have washed his hands of Miss Blake and her niece's house long before the period at which this story opens. The house did not belong to Miss Blake. It was the property of her niece, a certain Miss Helena Elmsdale, of whom Mr. Craven always spoke as that "poor child."
And I went out of the room, and descended the stairs, and opened the front door, she looking graciously over the balusters the while, happy, ay, and more than happy. What would I not have done and dared at that moment for Helena Elmsdale? Ah! ye lovers, answer! "There has been a gentleman to look at the house, sir, this afternoon," said Mrs.
"Depend upon it, Hal," said Munro, putting on his coat and hat, preparatory to taking his departure, "depend upon it that unfortunate Robert Elmsdale must have been badly cheated by some one, and sorely exercised in spirit, before he blew out his brains."
"A goodly, portly man, i's faith, and a corpulent: of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or by'r lady, inclining to three score." It had been a good morning, thought Mendenhall. If only more citizens like this big, talkative, prosperous looking stranger would settle in Elmsdale!
Harringford, "and ought not to borrow money at twenty per cent, unless they can make thirty per cent, out of it." Personally, he had never paid Mr. Elmsdale more than twelve and a half or fifteen per cent.; but, then, their transactions were on a large scale. Only the day before Mr.
It is bad enough to be so far as this from my father and my mother's remains, but I daresay I'll manage to rest in the same grave as my sister, though Robert Elmsdale lies between. He separated us in life not that she ever cared for him; but it won't matter much when we are all bones and dust together " "If I let you have that five pounds," here broke in Mr.
Why, I had more than twice ten yesterday from a man on whom we have no claim none whatever who, without asking, offered it in our need." "Aunt," said Miss Elmsdale, warningly. "If you will kindly give me your acknowledgment, Miss Blake, I should like to be getting back to Buckingham Street," I said. "Mr. Craven will wonder at my absence." "Not a bit of it," retorted Miss Blake. "You and Mr.
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