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He held out his hand, evidently with no thought but that the questionable offer would be snapped up at once. Layson drew back angrily. "No," he replied. Holton, seeing that he had made a serious mistake, tried to correct it. "Oh, shucks, now! I didn't mean no harm. That's only business." Layson was intensely angered.
Holton, the clerk, looked up from his desk. Probably my feelings showed in my face, for he said: "What is it, Mr. Knowles? No bad news, I trust, sir." "No," I answered, shortly. "Where is Street? Is it far from here?" It was rather far from there, in Camberwell, on the Surrey side of the river. I might take a bus at such a corner and change again at so and so.
"I can clear him of 'em both," said Madge. "I'll sw'ar th' killin' was in self-defense; I'll sw'ar that Holton owned, before me, that he saw Joe leave th' stable afore th' fire." "He saw him!" exclaimed Frank, astonished. "What was Holton doing there?" "Oh, don't you see?" said Madge. "He war your enemy th' man as told Joe th' lie ag'in you in th' mountings, th' man as tried to burn Queen Bess."
Her audience attended, spellbound, even the disgruntled and unsympathetic Barbara listening with unwilling fascination. Only Holton turned away, with a gesture of impatience. He plainly did not wish to waste time on the girl. Or was it that?
It was characteristic of the man, his forbears and his breed in general, that, now, when he knew that deadly danger well might threaten, he sent more moonshine whisky from the still than ever had gone from it in like length of time, either in his father's day or his. That his actual and only dangerous enemy was Holton, he did not, for an instant, guess.
What Holton said by way of warning to Brown was realized in the case of Howe. He was "the noblest victim of them all."
The Lower Canadian Liberals were not represented, partly because Dorion and Holton held back, and partly because of the prejudice of Taché and Cartier against the Rouges; and this exclusion was a serious defect in a ministry supposed to be formed on a broad and patriotic basis.
Holton and Dorion told him that by his action in 1864, he had sacrificed his own party interests to those of John A. Macdonald; that Macdonald was in serious political difficulty, and had been defeated in the legislature; that he seized upon Brown's suggestion merely as a means of keeping himself in office; that for the sake of office he accepted the idea of confederation, after having voted against it in Brown's committee.
I found out that the friends of the poor are the poor. Mr. Nation met me at Topeka and he was so pleased that he said: "You shall have this horse and buggy for your own." Holton was thirty miles north and we drove up together. I began to have a contempt for popular preaching, keeping apart from "clicks" and "sects". I knew that my husband ought not to be in the ministry.
I wants to know what that thing is I wants to know just who an' what ye air!" "It's easy enough to show who Horace Holton is," the man said, blustering, but he was very ill at ease. "What do I care what you want?" And then he made a slip. "You can't bring no proof " he began, but caught himself. Madge had been watching him with new intentness.
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