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Doubtless a time was coming when she would find it necessary to use this money, but the present moment was too charged with the giver's resentful benevolence to make such a compromise possible. For three consecutive days Mrs. Ffinch-Brown swooped down upon the Robson household and gave vent to her pique.
He would not tolerate even the appearance of a bribe; for bribery lay at the root of much that was evil in Japan, as well as in countries nearer home; and once when a merchant brought him his son to educate, and added, as was customary, a little private sweetener, Yoshida dashed the money in the giver's face, and launched into such an outbreak of indignation as made the matter public in the school.
Instead a rouleau of Napoleons was laid on his open palm. Chateauroy knew the gold would sting more than the blow. For the moment Cecil had but one impulse to dash the pieces in the giver's face.
Then he felt a big, soft roll of bills stuffed into his hand. He took it, trembling all over. He wanted to spring erect, to fling that bribe in its giver's face. But he could, control himself a moment longer. "Blake, who's the contractor on this job?" he queried, rapidly. "Don't you know?" "I don't." "Well, we supposed you knew. It's Lee."
"Thank you, I shall value it most highly; especially for the giver's sake," said Herbert, examining his with a pleased look, then turning to her with a blush and joyous smile, "I am so much better this morning that I am going out for a drive. Won't you and Lucy give me the added pleasure of your company?" "Thank you, I can answer for myself that I'll be very happy to do so." "I, too," said Lucy.
For ten days, Teddy had shivered or burned with fever and ague, pining the while for Kit, and refusing to be comforted, because he had not been able to thank him for the generous protection, which, perhaps, had cost the giver's life.
"I'd die first," she answered; "bisques are the badge of advertised inferiority and a mark of the giver's contempt." "Stuff!" said Morris. "Stuff, indeed! As though it wasn't bad enough to be beaten at all; but to be beaten with bisques!" "That's another argument," said Morris.
'Yea, yea, said Gold-mane, laughing also, 'but he asked it not of thee. 'That is sooth, she said, 'but since thou hast asked me, I will tell thee that if thou slay him it will be my harm as well as his; and in my country a man that taketh a gift is not wont to break the giver's head with it straightway.
All was explained save his consequent rightabout from the chemist's shop: and that belongs to the minor involutions of circumstances and the will. It passed like a giver's wrinkle. He read the placards of the Opera; reminding himself of the day when it was the single Opera-house; and now we have two-or three.
And from this time gifts and letters poured in ceaselessly upon Mrs. Baden-Powell in London, letters from all classes of the nation, costly gifts, humble gifts all testifying to the giver's love and admiration of her gallant son in Mafeking. One of these presents took the form of a large portrait of B.-P. worked in coloured silks, another a little modest book-marker.
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