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Upon the two former I managed him myself, without a single witness; and, but that I had lost my own child and there is a mystery I cannot penetrate I would have " Here he rang the bell, and a servant entered. "Send up Gillespie." The servant, as usual, bowed, and Gillespie entered. "Gillespie, there is a young fellow in Ballytrain, named Fenton, I think?"
Fenton was a man of so much audacity, so fertile in resource, and so persistent in his efforts, that while nobody knew what he would do, it was generally supposed that he would make a fight; and expectation was alive to see it. As to Fenton, he was at first completely overwhelmed by the summons from the committee.
She sat there, at the corner of the table, with Mrs. Fenton at one side, and an empty seat on the other. Robin immediately sat down in it, to eat his dinner, beginning with the "gross foods," according to the English custom. He attended to all this zealously, while never for an instant was he unaware of the girl. They tricked their elders very well, these two innocent ones.
"You've regularly bled me, Fenton," Snaffle observed with much jocularity, as the players came out of the club house. "I've hardly got a car fare left to take me home. I'm afraid the St. Filipe is a den of thieves." "I don't mind lending you a car fare, Mr. Snaffle," the artist returned, endeavoring to speak as pleasantly as if he did not object to the familiarity of the other's address.
Rangely was betting on three aces, and Wilson on a full hand, so that the betting ran rather high. "Twelve o'clock, gentlemen," the servant said at the door. And when Fenton began his Sunday by winning the pot on his straight flush, he found himself more than sixty dollars to the good on his evening's work.
It distressed her the more because Kate said afterwards: "Have you had words with Tom Fenton, Jenny? I asked him if he'd a grudge against you, that he never spoke." "What did he say?" asked Jenny quickly. "He didn't say neither yea nor nay," answered Kate, laughing. The afternoon brought several young people, and there was, as usual, plenty of mirth and chatter.
He could talk intelligently and not too inaccurately of the larger questions which Lynbrook ignored, and a gay indifference to the importance of money seemed the crowning grace of his nature, till Amherst suddenly learned that this attitude of detachment was generally ascribed to the liberality of Mrs. Fenton Carbury.
On the other hand, so far as politics were concerned, his affections seemed to be lavished on politicians who flattered and coddled him. Of this the rise of Governor Fenton was a striking example. Doubtless there were exceptions to this rule, but it was the rule nevertheless. This was clearly and indeed comically shown at the reception given him in Union Square on the evening referred to. Mr.
He was not a man to swerve from his word, although he would fain have remained at the settlement, and enjoyed that rest which those advancing in life desire. It happened one evening that as Roger and Gilbert were walking along the banks of the river, they caught sight of a small boat pulling rapidly down the stream, with two men in her. Directly afterwards they encountered Fenton.
I am glad, however, that the issue of events has exonerated her husband from any part in her disappearance." He was glad to know this glad to know that however base a traitor to himself, John Saltram had not been guilty of that deeper villany which he had at times been led to suspect. Gilbert Fenton left Mr. Medler's office a happier man than when he had entered it, and yet only half satisfied.
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