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"But come away; the drawing-room is cooler; let us go there and talk things over." Mrs. Liddell accepted the suggestion, and sank into an arm-chair, while her daughter let down the blinds, and then placed herself on a low ottoman opposite her. There was a short silence; then Mrs. Liddell sighed and began: "I counted so much on that short story for ready money!
Katherine stirred the fire, and placed a threadbare footstool before the invalid's easy-chair, thanking Heaven in her heart for sending her such an ally as the friendly lawyer. Then Mr. Liddell appeared, leaning on Newton's arm, and not looking much worse than usual, Katherine thought.
Liddell did not like the new lingerie waists which Marcella brought to her in her trembling hands. For another half hour she examined and found fault and sneered. Then she swept away with the scornful remark that she didn't see a thing there that was fit to wear, and she would go to Markwell Bros. and see if they had anything worth looking at.
"I suppose it is; and those poor old people who cannot read or are blind, I am quite willing to read to them if they like it." "I can find plenty for you to do, Miss Liddell," Bertie was beginning when his sister broke in with: "This is quite too bad, Bertie. You know I will not have you dragging my young friends to catch all sorts of disorders in the slums.
"Don't mind, dear, if you are tired; your morning-gown will do very well, as we are alone." "No, no; I must honor Cecil's birthday with my best dress. These trifles are important." "I suppose so," returned her daughter, looking after her gravely, as she left the room. Mrs. Liddell was tall, and the lines of her figure considerably enlarged.
There was indeed opening before him a wide door of hope. He had changed into the service of Messrs. Liddell & Gordon; these gentlemen had begun to dabble in the new field of marine telegraphy; and Fleeming was already face to face with his life's work. That impotent sense of his own value, as of a ship aground, which makes one of the agonies of youth, began to fall from him.
She was obliged to be content with dusting it and placing the result of her cooking between two warm plates thereupon. Then she carried the whole up to her starving relative. Mr. Liddell had fallen into a doze from exhaustion, and looked quite wolfish when, rousing up, his eyes fell upon the sorely needed food. "You have been quick, but it is surely wasteful to cook two chops."
"I should say something for you if you could show such a woman with sixty or seventy thousand behind her as your wife. Why don't you go in and win? Don't let the grass grow under your feet." "It is easier said than done. Miss Liddell is not an ordinary sort of young lady; she is not to be hurried. But I do not despair, by any means, of winning her yet.
The practical study which he had given to it when a workman, and the patient manner in which he had groped his way through all the details of the machine, gave him the power of a master in dealing with it as applied to colliery purposes. Sir Thomas Liddell was frequently about the works, and took pleasure in giving every encouragement to the engine-wright in his efforts after improvement.
Do not believe that the will of which Mr. Liddell speaks is irrevocable. He has made two or three to my certain knowledge, and it would be foolish to cut your daughter off from, any chance of sharing his fortune, which is considerable, I assure you, merely to avoid a little present annoyance." "It would indeed. Do not think me very weak. It is a passing fit of the dolefuls.
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