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You come to-morrow, Sophie. And good-by, Samuel. I must go for my ride now." "Good-by, Miss Gladys," said Samuel. "And please don't forget what you were going to say to Master Albert!" Samuel went home walking upon air. He had found a place for himself and a place for Sophie. And he had got the reforming of Bertie Lockman under way!
There was no snobbery in Samuel's attitude; he felt precisely as another and far greater Samuel had felt when his sovereign had condescended to praise his dictionary, and the tears of gratitude had started into his eyes. They drove up before the palace, and a groom came hurrying up. "Phillips," said young Lockman, "look at that rein!" The groom stared aghast.
This perfessor was a great friend of old Henry Lockman an' the old man used to run this town with his little finger. But they had a big strike here three years ago, and too many men got hit over the head. So it'll be a long day before there's any more 'reform' in Lockmanville." "I see," said Samuel. "They make a great howl about the saloons an' all the rest," added the barkeeper.
Secretary to the British Herring Fishery, remarkable for an extraordinary number of occasional verses, not of eminent merit. BOSWELL. See ante, i. 115, note i. Lockman was known in France as the translator of Voltaire's La Henriade. See Marmontel's Preface. Voltaire's Works, ed. 1819, viii. 18. Luke vii. 50.
As for the father, he wrote a letter of agonized reproach, to which Mr. Manning replied with patient courtesy, explaining that he had had nothing to do with the matter; that he was a broker and had bought as ordered, and that he had been powerless to foresee the death of Lockman. "You will remember," he said, "that I warned you of the uncertainties of the market, and of the chances that you took."
"Yes, that's the chap. He's one of the pillars of the church, isn't he?" "I suppose so," said Samuel. "He's one of the vestrymen." "And did you ever hear of Henry Hickman before?" "I know he's a famous lawyer; and I was told that he managed the Lockman estate." "Yes," said Charlie, "and I suppose you don't know what that means!" "No," admitted Samuel, "I don't."
"At 'Fairview'!" exclaimed the other. "Yes," said Samuel. "The Lockman place." "ALBERT Lockman's place?" "Yes." "How did she come to be there?" "Why, she was a friend of his. She was there to dinner." "What!" gasped the man. "How do you know it?" "I work there," replied Samuel. "And how did she come to go to the hotel?" "Master Albert turned her out," said Samuel.
I want to do what's right, Mr. Wygant!" "I suppose you do," began the other "I want to understand, sir just what is it that makes another person my superior?" "People who are older than you, and who are wiser " "But is it age and wisdom, Mr. Wygant? I worked for Master Albert Lockman, and he's hardly any older than I. And yet he was my superior!" "Yes," admitted the other
Lockman had taken great interest in his stock farm, but very little in his house; and Master Albert took even less, spending most of his time in New York. Consequently everything was at sixes and sevens, and he was being robbed most terribly. But in spite of all his relatives' suggestions, he would not have anyone to come and live with him.
"Fall to," said the host; and then divining the other's state of mind, he remarked, "You needn't serve, Peters," and the men went away, to Samuel's vast relief. "Don't mind me," added Lockman laughing. "And if there's any question you want to ask, all right."
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