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Common courtesy forced her to comply. So Margaret seated herself on a little red rustic bench. In the moonlight but I think I have mentioned how Margaret looked in the moonlight; and above her golden head the Eagle, sculptured over the door-way, stretched his wings to the uttermost, half-protectingly, half-threateningly, and seemed to view Mr. Jukesbury with a certain air of expectation.
His voice had risen to a querulous tone. Gently the fat old man restrained him. "Yes," said Petheridge Jukesbury; "dear me, yes. Why, dear me, of course." But his warning hand held Margaret back Margaret, who stood with big tears trickling down her cheeks.
Petheridge Jukesbury had at divers times pointed out to her the evils of promiscuous charity, and these dicta Margaret parroted glibly enough, to do her justice, so long as there was no immediate question of dispensing alms.
I tell you I'll be damned if he dies, sir!" And I fancy the recording angel heard him, and against a list of wordy cheats registered that oath to his credit. It was Petheridge Jukesbury, then, who stalked into Mrs.
And here is my friend Jukesbury, whose eloquent pleas for a higher life have turned so many workmen from gin and improvidence, and which in a printed form are disseminated even in such remote regions as Africa, where I am told they have produced the most satisfactory results upon the unsophisticated but polygamous monarchs of that continent.
Colonel Hugonin stared at him. The skin of his flabby, wrinkled old throat was working convulsively. Then, "You're wrong, sir," the Colonel said. "Billy shan't die. Damn Jukesbury! Damn all doctors, too, sir! I put my trust in my God, sir, and not in a box of damn' sugar-pills, sir. And I tell you, sir, that boy is not going to die." Afterward he turned and went into Selwoode defiantly.
Jukesbury, "to appear lacking in respect to the cloth, but er just at present I am inclined to think we are in somewhat greater need of a mattress and a doctor and ah the exercise of a little common-sense. The gentleman is er let us hope, in no immediate danger." "How dare you suggest such a thing, sir?" thundered Petheridge Jukesbury. "Didn't you see that poor girl's face?
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