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Levitt's laughter, gross with experience. He had borne that without much pain. Girl's laughter it was, young and innocent and pure, and ten times more cruel. "You don't know," she said, "you don't know how funny you are," and left him. Mr. Waddington took up the necklace and kissed it. He rubbed it against his cheek and kissed it. A slip of paper had fallen from the table to the floor.
Levitt's door and by the shrill "Good nights" called out from its threshold and answered up the street The merry bridge parties and the little suppers were no more. Even the Rector's geniality grew more and more Christian and perfunctory, till he too left off stopping to talk to Mrs. Levitt when he met her in the street. Mr.
Waddington had nothing like the same complacence in thinking of his own son Horace; but then Horace's existence and his activity were not a tribute but a menace, a standing danger, not only to his power but to his fascination, his sense of himself as a still young, still brilliant and effective personality. Levitt's society that Mr.
You're bound to see more things than I do." "I might see more, but you'll understand more." "Well, then, you can't do without me. It's a compact, isn't it, that we don't keep things back?" As for Mrs. Levitt's handling of their theme they resented it as an abominable profanation. "Do you think he's in love with her?" Barbara said. "What he would call being in love and we shouldn't."
"Re my estimate for decoration and additional building to Mrs. Levitt's house, I beg to inform you that recent circumstances have rendered it impossible for me to take up the contract. I must therefore request you to transfer your esteemed order to some other firm. "Faithfully yours, Mr. Hitchin expressed his attitude even more clearly to the foreman of his works.
The mere exercise of our respective professions, the scientific as well as the moral interest of them, is as much to us as the theory of your business to you; and that is saying a great deal. You will not quarrel with the idea of the scientific interest of Dr Levitt's profession in his hands; for you know how learned he is in the complex science of Humanity.
Mr Walcot had complained that the odds were really too much against him, and that he believed himself likely to lose almost every fever patient he had. It may be imagined how welcome to him were Mr Hope's countenance, suggestions, and influence, such as the prejudices of the people had left it. Dr Levitt's influence was of little more avail than Mr Hope's.
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