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Melville's 'John Marr and Other Sailors, of which twenty-five copies only were printed, on the one hand, and Mr. Russell's 'An Ocean Tragedy, on the other, of which many thousand have been printed, not to mention unnumbered pirated copies. Beside Hawthorne, Mr. Richard Henry Stoddard, of American writers, specially knew and appreciated Herman Melville. Mr.
But I should like you to have had the experience. And then, you are so intuitive about people, you might have read him. I could not. And he was a fellow worth reading, that I'm certain of. No, I won't have any mutton. I seem to have lost my appetite over this." Valentine calmly continued his dinner, while Julian talked on about Marr rather excitedly.
His make-up was perfect. To get here so soon after receiving the cue he must have been awaiting the word just outside the entrance. Gulwing was smart but he was not so smart as Marr Marr exulted to himself. In high good humor, he dropped a dollar bill at the girl's elbow. "Pay for the call out of that, miss, and keep the change," he said genially. "Sorry I was so boisterous just now."
"I wonder what that fellow, Marr, would say to this." "Marr! By Jove, is this one of the manifestations which he spoke about so vaguely?" "It seems like it." "But describe your sensations. You say you felt horribly afraid. Why was that?" "I can't tell. That, I think, made part of the horror.
"Of course," said Hilliard, laughing as he met Eve's surprised look. "I knew what that meant. I would much rather have got out of it, but it would have seemed brutal. So I went. The poor simpleton has begun to find that marriage with one man isn't necessarily the same thing as marriage with another. In Ezra Marr she has caught a Tartar." "Surely he doesn't ill-use her?" "Not a bit of it.
Applegate and Creagan tell it that they saw Chris leaving town at eleven o'clock, that he said he was coming up here, and that he made a war-talk about Marr. But not a word about Pringle or the fight at the hotel. Joe Espalin doesn't appear no claim that he saw Foy at all." "That looks ugly," observed Pringle. "Ugly! Your testimony is to be thrown out as a lie made of whole cloth.
"And you needn't bother about Gulwing either. I've seen him saw him as soon as I came in. I guess he'll be seeing me in a minute, too, and then he'll suddenly remember where it was he left his umbrella and take it on the hop." Marr said not a word. Brock rattled on in high spirits, still maintaining that cat-with-a-mouse attitude which was characteristic of him.
The grandfather, displeased with his sons, had left a mill tying up his estate for the grandchildren, who were not to receive it until all of the first generation were dead. Only one son now remained, an infirm old man of seventy, and at his death the hoarded treasure would be divided among the heirs, two girls living in North Carolina, and Graham Marr, who was just twenty-one.
As her laugh was dutifully echoed by the man who was paying for the dinner, she felt deliriously clever for the rest of the evening. Presently Julian said: "I went to the club this afternoon." "Did you?" "Yes. I wanted to have a talk with that fellow Marr." Valentine suddenly put down the glass of champagne which he was in the act of raising to his lips.
He seemed taken unawares by their appearance, but his eyes immediately sought Valentine's face, still apparently questioning it with avidity. Julian noticed this, and recollected that the man had insisted on a likeness existing between Marr and Valentine. Possibly that fact, although apparently unremembered, had remained lurking in his mind, and was accountable for his own curious deception.
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