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Cater himself needn't know that you had anything to do with it." "But I'd know," said Justin quietly. Leverich lost his easy manner; his jaw protruded.
That evening, however, Lois sent for Leverich, who was evidently bothered; though bluffly and rather irritatingly making light of her fears, he seemed to be both a little reluctant and a little contemptuous. "My dear Mrs. Alexander, you can't expect a fellow to be always tied to his wife's apron-strings! He doesn't tell you everything. We like to have a free foot once in a while.
Yet she had also dreaded this returning, how she had dreaded it! with that old sickening shame which came over her inevitably as she thought of certain people and places and days. The mere thought of seeing Mrs. Leverich or George Sutton and that chorus of onlookers was like passing through fire.
Leverich," said Justin, raising his head simply, with a steely gleam in his eyes that matched the other's, "when I try to cheat you or Lewiston or any man out of what has been put up on me, I'll give you leave to say what you please. At present I'll say good morning." Leverich shrugged his shoulders and turned his back as he bent over his desk.
Your wife won't think much of your fine scruples if she's to go without for 'em. And, by the Lord, she's right! When you go into business, you've got to make up your mind to one of two things: you've either got to step hard on the necks of those below you, or you've got to lie down and let them wipe their feet on you." Leverich had stopped at intervals for comment from Justin.
We can't send any checks. Mr. Alexander is the one who does that. Everything is in Mr. Alexander's name. I went to Mr. Leverich to-day to see how we were going to straighten out things; but he doesn't seem inclined to take hold at all, though he could help us out easily enough if he wanted to. I there's no use keeping it back, Mrs. Alexander. This is a pretty bad time for Mr.
Leverich stopped her carriage one day to greet Dosia, and to ask her, with a tentative semblance of her old effusion, to come and make her a visit an effusion which immediately died down into complete non-interest, on Dosia's polite refusal; and the incident was not especially heart-racking at the time, though afterward it set her unaccountably trembling. Mrs.
He sat with his head on his hand, looking, not at Leverich, but to one side of him. "When I say I've made the money," continued Leverich, "I mean that I actually have made most of it made it out of nothing! like the first chapter of Genesis. If a man has money to start with, he can add to it as easily as you can roll up a snowball. It's no credit to him. But I've had only my brains.
Justin drummed with his fingers on the desk without answering. "You have proof?" "What's the sense of talking, Leverich? Proof or no, I tell you, I can't use it. This isn't any funny business; you can see that. Don't you suppose, if I could use it, that I would? But there are some things a man can't do. At any rate, I can't. And that settles it."
What do you mean by telling me that you can't use it?" "Just what I say. But it's not worth talking about." "See here, Alexander, could you get our machine in now instead of his?" "I suppose I might." "And you're not going to do it?" "I can't, I tell you, Leverich. The information came to me in such a way that I can't touch it." "'The information It's something damaging to do with the machine?"
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