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That was the name aristocratic children gave their fathers, and it meant him alone, because the little girl resembled him and loved him better than she did any one else. He really believed this, and the stammering of the fragile child's livid lips won the rough fellow's tender love.
Again he stepped closer to her. His evil face was convulsed with rage and desire. Like a wild beast he sprang upon her, and with his strong fingers at her throat forced her backward upon the berth. At the same instant the door of the cabin opened noisily. Rokoff leaped to his feet, and, turning, faced the Swede cook. Into the fellow's usually foxy eyes had come an expression of utter stupidity.
He wished to see Fulkerson, and ask him something about Beaton: whether he had been about lately, and whether he had dropped any hint of what had happened concerning Christine; Dryfoos believed that Fulkerson was in the fellow's confidence. There was nobody but Conrad in the counting-room, whither Dryfoos returned after glancing into Fulkerson's empty office.
"I'm going out," he added. "I've a patient to see. Ta! ta! Take care of yourself." Some little time after Beth's return, they were sitting at lunch together, and Maclure was reading a daily paper. "Matters look bad for that fellow, Cayley Pounce," he observed. "Why, what has he been doing?" Beth asked. "Poking a fellow's eye out with his umbrella," Dan answered.
The folks looked to see him broke like an egg at their very feet; but when the smother cleared, there he was, lying face downward on a ledge below them; and one of the men that happened to have a rope round him I forgot the fellow's name, if I ever heard it jumped down and grabbed him by the ankle as he began to slip back.
"And they may raise us to fifteen a week," said Clara, "though I doubt it. They'll not cut off their nose to spite their face. If they raised the rate for the streets they'd drive two-thirds of the girls back to the factories and sweat shops. You're not listening, Lorna. What's up?" "Nothing." "Your fellow's not had a relapse?" "No nothing." "Need some money? I can lend you ten.
There was this to confirm the fellow's statement that his mother never would tell him the reason why she had run away from her family. Well! what was he, Will Ladislaw, the worse, supposing the truth about that family to be the ugliest? His mother had braved hardship in order to separate herself from it.
At intervals, M. Hector would appeal to his wife, with his mouth full of beefsteak, as to the little fellow's age at such or such a time when he had said or done something memorable; and I noticed that Madame usually pooh-poohed these inquiries.
I got it at the eleventh hour by some fellow's giving it up, and it isn't as if I'd bargained for it a month ago." The elder man gave him one of his staccato glances in which Burnamy fancied suspicion and even resentment. But he said, after the moment of reflection which he gave himself, "Why, thank you, if you don't mind, really." "Not at all!" cried the young man.
Old Dorothea will bring her to your theatre!" and the young fellow's mobile face beamed with the happy radiance of success.
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