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Guilford's discomfiture had freed the doors of the coach; so it was that when M. Beaucaire, struggling to rise, assisted by his servants, threw out one hand to balance himself, he found it seized between two small, cold palms, and he looked into two warm, dilating eyes, that were doubly beautiful because of the fright and rage that found room in them, too.
"No; I have letters from London which inform me that the Lord North is but a puppet, and as the king pulls the wires he will dance to whatever tune the king likes. He was a nice, amiable young fellow when I stayed at his father's, my Lord Guilford's, and not without learning and judgment. But for the Exchequer a queer choice, I must say."
Kent was dining with Ormsby in the grill-room of the Camelot Club when the waiter brought in the evening edition of the Argus, whose railroad reporter had heard the preliminary fizzing of the bomb fuse. The story was set out on the first page, first column, with appropriate headlines. Great Excitement in Railroad Circles. Receiver Guilford's Hold-up.
Three times they beat up to Cape Malea, before they could round the point and make sail for the North; and it was not till 8 Jan. 1484 that they landed in Venice. The pilgrimage was over after seven months, and with what Guilford's chaplain calls 'large departing of our money'. Hitherto we have viewed the age mainly through the personality of individuals.
"What sloop is that with the Skylark?" asked Donald. "That's the Phantom. She got here from Newport this forenoon. Joe Guilford's father bought her for him. She is the twin sister of the Skylark, and they seem to make an even thing of it in sailing," replied Gus Barker. "You have quite a fleet now," added Donald. "Yes; and we are going to form a Yacht Club.
"Without committing myself in any sense, I might say that you are getting off too cheaply on your most liberal proposition. You and your friends have looted a seventy-million-dollar railroad, and " "You might have stood in on that if you had taken Guilford's offer," was the brusk rejoinder. "There was more than a corporation lawyer's salary in sight, if you'd had sense enough to see it."
On the rear platform of the private car four men watched the threatening second section fade into the night. "Our man has thought better of it," said the governor, marking the increased speed and the disappearance of the menacing headlight. Guilford's sigh of relief was almost a groan. "My God!" he said; "it makes me cold to think what might happen if he should pull us over into the other State!"
Guilford's broom has swept the high-salaried official corners clean. But the wage-people are mutinous and ripe for anything. I'll go and find out where we stand." And he groped on the floor of the veranda for his hat. "No, wait a minute," she interposed. "We are not quite ready to adjourn yet. There remains a little matter of compensation your compensation to be considered.
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