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Cooch Behar is now, I believe, directly linked up with Calcutta by rail. We left Calcutta a party of four. My nephew, General Sir Henry Streatfeild, and his wife, another of the Viceroy's aides-de-camp, myself, and a certain genial Calcutta business magnate, most popular of Anglo-Indians.
By the help of the Syrian, whose ventriloquism was so perfect that he never failed to produce the illusion that his feigned voice proceeded from any desired person or thing, Serapion had enmeshed the praetorian prefect, the greatest magnate in the empire next to Caesar himself, and in the course of the past night had gained a firm hold over him.
The hostess gave the effect of flushed, bright-eyed animation usual with her on exciting occasions. "Your wife is a beauty," said the street-railway magnate, looking down the disorganized table toward her. Paul received this assurance with the proper enthusiastic assent, but something else gleamed hotly in his face as he looked at her. "I have some rights," thought the young husband.
"So, then, Kama," said the prince, "Thou receivest Assyrians at thy villa?" "That man is a great magnate, Sargon, a relative of King Assar," answered Kama; "he has brought five talents to our goddess." "And them wilt repay him, Kama?" jeered the heir. "And since he is such a bountiful magnate, the Phoenician gods will not send thee death in punishment."
It was the magnate to whom he had sent the note the previous day, a man of large yet slow and cautious nature, learned and even pedantic, yet far-sighted and practical; very human and hearty in social intercourse, which, however, left him as it found him, with no sentimental or unbusiness-like entanglements.
His solicitor had been summoned in haste to make the will of a neighbouring magnate; some of the last formalities of his own business had been left uncompleted; and in short the matter was postponed for at least a day or two. "I wish it was done," he said, sighing and Laura could only feel that the responsibilities and anxieties weighing upon him seemed to press with unusual strength.
He had appointed a most unlikely scion of a well-known family to a foreign mission, and another young Kentuckian, the son of a New York magnate, to a leading consul generalship, without consultation with any one. He asked me about these. In a way one of them was one of my boys, and I was glad to see him get what he wanted, though he aspired to nothing so high.
There were more than houses enough for the scanty population of the island, and only a magnate could furnish these large rambling rooms. So the soldiers were sent down to pick the red cherries for the use of the garrison, but otherwise Jacques had the whole place to himself, with all its wings, outbuildings, arbors, and garden beds. 'But I have not told you all.
They paused there but to pass: the blue-clad China-boy, the San Francisco magnate, the mystery in the dust coat, the secret memoirs in tweed, the ogling, well-shod lady with her troop of girls; they did but flash and go; they were hull-down for us behind life's ocean, and we but hailed their topsails on the line.
"That's the only way to go, is it? Well, I'll see. Maybe a little later. How far is it?" "The farmers call it eighteen miles." Bannon nodded his thanks and went back to Sloan's office. "Well, it didn't take you long," said the magnate. "Find out what was the matter with 'em?"
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