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"But," said Sir John Fenwick, "he straight-forwardly said that he would frustrate our scheme, and in so doing, it is a thousand chances to one that he causes the whole to be discovered." "Then the way," exclaimed Sir George Barkley, "the only way is to proceed in the business at once.
An ominous thrill shot through me. The driver perhaps some broken-down son of luxury in the Old World, fit for nothing in the New World but to ply, for hire, the task that might have led to his ruin when plied in sport stopped at the door of my hut, and called out, "Friend, is not this the great Fenwick Section, and is not yonder long pile of building the Master's house?"
"What!" said I, inly, "have all those sound resolutions, which my reason founded on the wise talk of Julius Faber, melted away in the wrack of haggard, dissolving fancies! Is this my boasted intellect, my vaunted science! I I, Allen Fenwick, not only the credulous believer, but the blundering practitioner, of an evil magic!
He would not give her up to any Canadian fellow, and he altogether disapproved of such young love-affairs. 'Father, said Carrie, after a moment, 'when George asked me we didn't know 'About me? Well, now you do know, said Fenwick, roughly. 'I'm here and I have my rights. He put out his hand and seized her arm, looking at her, devouring her, in a kind of angry passion.
"Alas! is there any pretty girl whom Allen Fenwick would suit?" "Tut! You should be above the fretful vanity that lays traps for a compliment. Yes; the time has come in your life and your career when you would do well to marry. I give my consent to that," she added with a smile as if in jest, and a slight nod as if in earnest. The knitting here went on more decidedly, more quickly.
Nina lifted her head and saw her husband hatless in the road, his face set and grim, his hands gripping the reins with a strength that evidently impressed upon the runaway the futility of opposition. In his eyes was a look that made her tremble. "You had better go home in the car," Wingarde said. "It is waiting for me in Fenwick Street. Mr.
Fenwick did prevail, and then the parson became the other bondsman himself. He had been strongly advised, by Gilmore, by Gilmore's uncle, the prebendary at Salisbury, and by others, not to put himself forward in this position.
"Shall I name eleven to-morrow?" she said, as she handed the Squire's note to Mrs. Fenwick. Mrs. Fenwick and the Vicar both assented, and then she went in and wrote her answer. I will be at home at the vicarage at eleven. She would have given much to escape what was coming, but she had not expected to escape it. The next morning after breakfast Fenwick himself went away.
He told them of several of the former pupils of Putnam Hall, including Fenwick better known as Mumps, who he said was now working in a Chicago hotel. "You boys can rest assured of one thing," said Dan Baxter during the course of the conversation, "if I can ever do you a good turn I'll do it, no matter what it costs me." "That is very kind to say, Dan," answered Dick.
As he was standing bewildered inside the dining-room a servant caught hold of him and piloted him to his seat. A lady in white, who was already seated in the next chair, looked up and smiled. 'My father told me we were to be neighbours. I must introduce myself. She held out a small hand, which, in his sudden pleasure, Fenwick grasped more cordially than was necessary.
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