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The appeal produced no effect; those to whom it was made conceiving, perhaps, that it did not apply to them. Maltboy added the remark: "If you will withdraw at once, I promise you that in fifteen minutes we will proceed to business." "That's all right," said Quigg, winking again at Matthew. "Let us go, friends."
What I mean what you two are so dull as not to see is to put this unreliable Maltboy on a moderate allowance of flirtation; to keep him, for example, within the limits of this block. D'ye see? D'ye catch the idea?" "It begins to dawn on me," said Wilkeson. "And I catch a ray or two of it," added Maltboy. But "
Marcus had not before seen Uncle Ith, though he had been thinking of him all day. The publication of the old man's affidavit was an entire surprise to Marcus Overtop and Maltboy having said nothing to him about it. Other people read the document with interest, because it solved a mystery.
Five small boys, who had run all the way from the station house, had brought the exciting intelligence. The vehicle was at once surrounded by clamorous people. "Say, Mister, wich is the murderer, hey?" asked a red-shirted fellow of Matthew Maltboy, whose corpulent figure squeezed the thin form of Fayette Overtop into a corner of the front seat.
"Heard a scream thought it was here no intention to intrude," added Overtop. The tableau reminded Maltboy of his own innumerable little affairs, and he laughed. "It's a lovers' quarrel," said he, "and not to be interrupted, of course." The three bachelors hastily evacuated the room, and their merry laughs rang in the entry.
Overtop and Maltboy began to be weary. The former was gradually discovering that his theory was a bore. The latter wondered whether Quigg knew the tall girl, concerning the identity of the front part of whose residence Maltboy was at fault, although he knew every brick of the rear. "In this 'ere house," said Quigg, "I shall be treated rudely, because they owe me fifty dollars for groceries.
Availing himself of a pause in the dissertations on national politics, Maltboy pulled out his watch and consulted it. "Why!" said he; "nine o'clock! And I was to be in Fourteenth street by half past eight. Only intended to drop in just to see how you were. You really must excuse me, Mr. Whedell." Matthew rose as he spoke, to show that his mind was made up, and remonstrances would be useless.
Chiffield, and being told that he was a partner in a large drygoods house, would instantly think, "That drygoods house will stand in the midst of fires, earthquakes, and financial revulsions." With that fine instinct peculiar to lovers, Matthew Maltboy immediately recognized in Mr. Chiffield a rival and a dangerous one. Having seen much of society, Maltboy was well aware that Mr.
"There's not another like her in this world." There was a little Fayette Overtop, jr., two years old, a great pet of the bachelors, and the far-off husband of little Helen, on the other side of the block. Matthew Maltboy weighed two hundred and twenty pounds. As associate counsel of Overtop, he made an imposing show in court, which was not fully borne out by his legal attainments.
But Matthew Maltboy, distinctly understanding it, was candid enough to say "No," and from that moment was as nothing in the eyes of the lady. Overtop proceeded to deepen the favorable impression which he had made upon this charming patroness of intellect. "Did it ever occur to you how many subjects for the highest order of poetry lie unnoticed all about us?
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