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Now tell me, you young rascal," he said, "why didn't you put in a claim for yourself instead of those confounded Mansons?" "Why should I, sir? I didn't want anything. I have all I desire except a little more strength to work, and that is coming." The baronet kept gazing at him with the strangest look on his wicked, handsome old face.
If there is one, neither the Mingotts nor the Mansons belong to it; no, nor the Newlands or the Chiverses either. Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were just respectable English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed here because they did so well.
Having seen Arthur comfortably settled, his brother and sister went back to London together Alice to go into a single room, and betake herself once more to her work, but with new courage and hope; Richard to the book-binding till his father should have found a tutor for him. The Tukes were slowly becoming used, if not reconciled, to his care of the Mansons.
What business has he with what his father did before he was born! He was nowhere then, the insolent dog! He shall do as I tell him or go about his business go and herd with the Mansons and all the rest of them if he likes, and be hanged to them!" He sat in smouldering rage for a while, and then again his thoughts took shape in words, though not in speech.
"Now, Simon Armour," began the baronet with some truculence. "Now, sir Wilton Lestrange!" interrupted Simon. "What's the matter?" "Please to remember you are in my house!" "Tut, tut! All I want to say is that you will spoil everything if you encourage the rascal to keep low company!" "You mean?" "Those Mansons." "Are your children low company, sir?" "Yes; I am sorry, but I must admit it.
I had rather sit at work in a drawing-room all day, than go among mountains with people " "Like the Mansons; Oh, that spreading of shawls, and bustle about the sandwiches, before they could give a look at the waterfall! I am afraid we may find something of the same drawback here." "I am afraid so." "Well, only let us get out into the woods and lanes, and we will manage to enjoy ourselves there.
Archer's food should be a little better. But then New York, as far back as the mind of man could travel, had been divided into the two great fundamental groups of the Mingotts and Mansons and all their clan, who cared about eating and clothes and money, and the Archer-Newland-van-der-Luyden tribe, who were devoted to travel, horticulture and the best fiction, and looked down on the grosser forms of pleasure.
Girls like the two Miss Mansons might take possession of him in public, so long as she commanded those undiscovered rides and talks which revealed the real man. At the same time, he should never be able to feel secure that she would do his bidding, or keep appointments. As soon as Lady Laura's civil note arrived, she was determined to refuse it.
Firmly narrowing upward from this wealthy but inconspicuous substratum was the compact and dominant group which the Mingotts, Newlands, Chiverses and Mansons so actively represented. "Don't tell me," Mrs. Archer would say to her children, "all this modern newspaper rubbish about a New York aristocracy.
"The cheque there for my brother and sister, sir," answered Richard, pointing to it where the baronet had laid it, on the other side of him. "Brother and sister!" "The Mansons. sir," persisted Richard. "Oh, give them the cheque and be damned to them! But remember they're no brother and sister of yours, and must never be alluded to as such, or as persons you have any knowledge of.
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