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The knock was not repeated, but she knew that the door had been opened. For a few seconds longer she remained in her interesting attitude, and then considering that Fitts was rather slow to appreciate a joke, she opened her eyes, and was about to close her mouth, but the exclamation of surprise that rose to her lips, kept it wide open for a second or two longer.
A reader might have been tempted to imagine that Purbeck's "melancholy fitts" of insanity were the result of misery about his wife's infidelity; but, if she could still "draw from him speeches to her advantage," this cannot have been the case. The prosecution of Lady Purbeck was pretty clearly at the instigation of Buckingham and not of Purbeck.
Try any name you like. Doraine Smith, Doraine Humperdinck, Doraine Landover even Doraine Shay and, I tried it out with Clinton. Doraine Clinton. Don't you like it? I even tried Percival. It isn't quite so satisfying tacked onto a name like mine, and it's a poor beginning for Fitts, but with good, sensible surnames, it's fine." "It isn't a question of how it sounds, Mr. Percival."
Nicklestick, "that guy knows a good deal more about what is going on aboard this ship than he lets on. He ain't as simple as he looks. I told Captain Trigger just now that he ought to give him a dose of the third degree. That's the way to get to the bottom of this business. String him up by the thumbs till he squeals. What say, Mr. Fitts?" Mr. Fitts, the architect, was a mild man.
Why, this fellow would simply laugh in his face." "Just, as he is laughing in yours at this moment, Mr. Landover," pursued Mr. Fitts pleasantly. "The damned rascal," said Mr. Landover, and stalked away. "There goes one of the biggest figures in the United States," said Mr. Nicklestick, looking after the banker. His remark was addressed to Mr. Fitts. "I wish I had his brains."
Petitions with 15,000 signatures had been presented for these various measures. The Municipal Suffrage bill was reported favorably to the House by C. C. Fitts, chairman of the committee, but was refused third reading by 99 to 97. On November 17 it was introduced in the Senate, reported favorably by committee chairman J. Emery Buxton and passed without debate with three opposing votes.
Potts and the faithful Fitts followed later in the season with the furniture and belongings, and all were established in a home full of pleasant distractions and promising happiness but under the same old management as ever, and bound by the same old ties of long ago.
I've got a busy day tomorrow, setting up the Trigger Island Pioneer, and as I belong to that almost extinct species known as the bachelor, I am forced to be my own alarm clock. Going my way, Abel?" "Good night, Ruth," said Landover. "Give the Lieutenant Governor a good smack for me, and tell him he is still in my will." "Umph!" grunted Fitts.
"Well, Fitts, I must first tell you a great secret, which I am sure you will be glad to hear," Honor said a little gaily Fitts scratched his ear and looked embarassed, "Mr. Elersley is back again in Ottawa." "Och don't I hope, 'tis yerself is in airnist, Miss Honor," the old man answered between smiles and tears, "is this really the truth?"
From this it would appear either that when Purbeck was in one of his "melancholye fitts," he was quite tractable, but, at other times, he was rather unmanageable; or that, when well, he refused to be ordered about, but when ill, was too poorly to make any resistance. Conway replied as follows:
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