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"Why, you poor thing! Man Fleetwood, do you " Val impulsively caught her by the arm. "Oh, hush! I was only joking," she said hastily. "I was trying to balance Manley's wish for fifty thousand dollars, don't you see? It was stupid of me, I know." She laughed unconvincingly. "Let me guess what the surprise is. First, is it large or small?"
Plainly, too, Olivia had learned that tongues were wagging against him, and had taken this way of checking them. It was a generous act. At the same time, he could very well believe that Olivia might, unconsciously of course, be on the side of the murderer of such a husband. Thanks to Mr. Manley's invaluable sense of what was fitting, there was no constraint about the dinner.
"But let me remind you that it is a crime to be an accessory before, or after, the fact to murder," said the lawyer in a tone of some triumph. "Oh, I'm not going as far as that," said Mr. Manley. "A man might very well approve of a murder without being willing to further it." Mr. Flexen laughed and said: "I understand Mr. Manley's point of view.
I learned to cook, to wash clothes, to iron, to sweep, and to scrub, and to make my own clothes, because Manley's wife would live where she could not hire servants to do these things. I lived a beautiful, picturesque dream of domestic happiness. "I left my friends, my home, all the things I had been accustomed to all my life, and I came out here to live that dream!" She laughed bitterly.
Almost he could see what was taking place at the river, just by watching her. "Oh, there's Manley, away out! Why, your Michael is swimming beautifully, Kent! His head is high out of the water, and the water is churning like Oh, Manley's holding his rifle up over his head he's looking back toward shore. I wonder," she added softly, "what he's thinking about! Manley! you're my husband and once I "
He called him "Doctor" and "Sir Peter" and such like names all the way, whereat Peter was so abashed that friends seeing him sitting in Manley's phaeton, with such an expression on his face, spread abroad the tale that the doctor was bringing him home with two broken legs as the result of riding a strange horse.
Flexen had at the time shown himself somewhat unbelieving in the matter of Mr. Manley's conclusions about the character and temperament of Grey and Olivia, the impression they had made on him grew stronger.
Notwithstanding her notorious disregard of truth, it is scarcely credible that Mrs. Manley's scurrilous charge was in no way countenanced by facts.
To that repulsive book we refer those readers who may wish to peruse Mrs. Manley's account of Sarah Stout's death. A distorted tradition of Sarah Stout's tragic end, and of Lord Cowper's imputed bigamy, was contributed to an early number of the 'European' by a clerical authority the Rev. J. Hinton, Rector of Alderton, in Northamptonshire. "Mrs.
He wondered swiftly if she blamed him for Manley's condition. Fleetwood suddenly sat up, spilling the handkerchief to the floor. When Valeria essayed to push him back he put her hand gently away. He rose and came over to Kent. "Is this straight goods?" he demanded. "Why don't you stop it?" "Fred De Garmo's running this show. My influence wouldn't go as far "
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