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Updated: September 11, 2025
The day passed much as yesterday had done. About four o'clock there came a telegram from Kilian to his sister. He had been delayed, and Mr. Whitney would wait for him, and they would come the next evening by the boat. I think Mary Leighton could have cried if she had not been ashamed. Her pretty blue organdie was on the bed ready to put on.
He removed the racing plates you put on Panchito and substituted heavy work shoes, but Panchito will go to the post with racing plates. I think we had better put a bet down on him." "I wouldn't bet tin money on him," Danny Leighton warned. "He can outrun anything in that field, even if he has broken training a little, but those wise little jockeys on the other horses will never let him win.
The dreaded call never came. He began to distrust his messenger. Then one stifling afternoon as he sat dozing in his chair a sharp rap on the study door awakened him with a start. "Master! Master!" called Lalia's voice. "Yes, yes," cried Leighton; "come in." As he rose from his chair Lalia entered. She was breathless with running. "Master," she said, "Shenton did quarrel with us.
"We awe from the Soath," she said, "and we arrived this mawning, but we got this cyahd from the brokah just befo' dinnah, and so we awe rathah late." "Not at all; it's only nine o'clock," said Mrs. Leighton. She looked up from the card the young lady had given her, and explained, "We haven't got in our servants yet, and we had to answer the bell ourselves, and "
I'm afraid it must have been Richard whom I forgot to answer just before: for I saw him twist his yellow moustache into his mouth and bite it; a bad sign with him. Kilian was to lead with Mary Leighton, and he came up to where we stood, and said to Richard, "I suppose you have Miss Pauline for your partner?"
Then he threw back his head and looked at his father. "Why did you ask that?" Leighton did not answer for a moment. Finally he said: "Because it's the one thing you hadn't a right to keep to yourself. I'm glad you saw that. Always start square with a woman. If you do, afterward, she'll forgive you anything." Lewis went to bed with the puzzled look still on his face.
Leighton, one day in the fourth month of Dodger's absence, "Carrie has perhaps told you that I give a party next Thursday evening." "She told me," answered the governess. "I expected Prof. Bouvier to furnish dancing music in fact, I had engaged him but I have just received a note stating that he is unwell, and I am left unprovided.
The cheerfulness was not only in his disease, but in his temperament. Its excess was always a little against him in his church work, and Mrs. Leighton was right enough in feeling that if it had not been for the ballast of her instinctive despondency he would have made shipwreck of such small chances of prosperity as befell him in life.
Lewis found his father sitting like a judge on the bench, behind a great oak desk he rarely used. An envelope, addressed, lay before him. He rang for Nelton and sent it out. "Sit down," he said to Lewis. "Where did you get your education? By education I don't mean a knowledge of knives, forks, and fish-eaters. That's from Ann Leighton, of course.
Bunyan did well to prepare for the worst. He must have been familiar with the horrid cruelties practiced upon Dr. Leighton by that fiend in human shape, Archbishop Laud. The pious and learned doctor was caught in Bedfordshire; and the story of his unparalleled sufferings strengthened the Roundheads to deeds of valour, in putting an end to such diabolical cruelties.
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