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These were alarming words, though the lad could not understand how harm to him was to benefit any one, unless it was that Hornblower and his confederates were afraid of the consequences of discovery, and prefered to act on the principle that dead boys can tell no tales. The night was pleasant, with a faint moon, and the Simoon dropped anchor within a few hundred yards of shore.
"He wants to bind the college together. He wants to link us to the beefy set." "I do like Hornblower," he protested. "I don't try." "And Hornblower tries to like you." "That part doesn't matter." "But he does try to like you. He tries not to despise you. It is altogether a most public-spirited affair." "Tilliard started them," said Widdrington.
There was in her manner an ingenious suggestion of having in mind the recent heart-broken confidences of Thad's mother, and Etta West blushed hotly and changed the subject. Mrs. Robert Hornblower looked upon the acquisition as practical rebellion against the decrees of Providence. In Persis' presence, she said little, having a sincere respect for her ex-dressmaker's gift of repartee. But to Mr.
Hornblower, and stick to it. Your no is as good as his yes, I'm sure, when it's your business that's being talked of." She had suddenly become the dominant figure in the room. Mrs. Hornblower glanced at her uncertainly. The promoter smiled propitiatingly. The old man shuffled toward her with an evident hope that through proximity he might profit by her sturdy strength.
And on the Monday when Persis took the ten o'clock train for Boston it was generally understood that she had declined the pleasure of her brother's company and was bent on an errand whose nature she alone knew. "She'll put up at a hotel, I suppose," said Mrs. Hornblower. "She'll have to, for there's nobody in Boston she knows well enough to visit.
Hornblower," Ware began soothingly, "I should be very unwilling to over-persuade you. If my proposition does not commend itself to your own good judgment, you are perfectly justified in turning it down. Or if you are not in the mood for talking business to-day, some other time " "There's no time like the present," said Persis Dale. "And if you don't like what he's got to offer, you can say no, Mr.
"Yes, I reminded him about the twenty-five per cent. by the tenth year, and he laughed at me. Said the guarantee you set such store by might as well be used for curl papers, if the company got sick of its bargain." "Why don't you say something?" Mrs. Hornblower turned on Justin furiously. "What do you mean by letting her run on in this crazy fashion and never wagging your tongue?"
Hornblower, and persuading her that to make a dragoon of her son was the very best thing for him great promotion, and quite removed from the ordinary vulgar enlistment in the line till he had wiled consent out of her. And though Philip declared it was blarney, and was inclined to think it infra dig. to have thus exerted his eloquence, it was certain that Mrs.
To which all that Herbert answered was, "Harry Hornblower!" as if that name spoke volumes of oppression of mind. That discussion, however, was hindered by Mrs. Hornblower's own arrival with one of her lodger's numerous meals, and Julius went off to luncheon. The next step on the stairs made Herbert start and exclaim, "That's the dragoon! Come in, Phil."
"I can go at once," I said. "Then we will drive around for you. We should be there in fifteen or twenty minutes." "Very well," I said, "I'll be ready. I shall, of course, want to take a witness with me." "That is quite proper," assented Mr. Hornblower. "We can have no objection to that. In twenty minutes, then." I got the Record office as soon as I could, but Godfrey was not there.
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