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McElwin, and I know that if you had made a practice of doing business in this way you would not have been nearly so successful, but I will pledge you my word that if you will let me have the money " "Good day, sir, good day." Lyman walked out, not feeling so humorous as when he went in. He looked up and down the dingy, drowsy street.
And at night I came down town in the rain to see if I could not find him, and when I failed in this, I thought that I would come up here to warn you." He hesitated, with a slight cough. "But you didn't come." "No, not all the way. I halted on the stairs and turned back. I felt that I " He hesitated. "You felt that you could not afford to antagonize Mr. Sawyer." McElwin coughed.
It struck with solemn self-importance, as if proclaiming the hour to foreclose a mortgage; and though not given to this sort of reflective speculation, McElwin must have been vaguely influenced by its knell-like stroke, for he nearly always glanced up as if a tribute were due to its promptness. A few minutes later Zeb Sawyer was shown into the room.
"Yes," said Lyman, "you might hunt a wolf and find a panther." "I take that as a threat," the banker spoke up. "Oh, not at all," Lyman replied. "It was merely to help carry out a figure of speech." "Let's get to business," said Sawyer. "All right," Lyman agreed. "But you don't expect me to state the object of your visit." "No, sir. We can do that easy enough," said McElwin.
They put their arms about each other. "It would break your father's heart," the mother said, her tears falling. "It would crush him to the earth." "I know it, and my heart may be crushed, instead of his. But that petition must not be signed." "Let us wait, my child. Don't say anything. Don't " They heard McElwin calling from the foot of the stairs.
McElwin and tell him that I have cremated the little finger of his god, and send him the ashes," he said. Sawyer stood gazing at him in astonishment. "I told you to sit down. You won't sit down. And you won't take the god-ashes to the devotee. Come, that's unkind." "Sir, you have insulted me." "What, again?" "And you shall regret it. And you shall leave this town," he added, turning to go.
I remember a remark old Sam Johnson made concerning a fellow who had grown rich enough to stop buying and selling 'he had lost the servility of the tradesman without having acquired the manners of a gentleman." McElwin bit his lip. "I didn't mean any offense," he said. "Oh, surely not, and I have taken none. By the way, Mr. McElwin, Chancery court will meet next Monday." "Ah!
McElwin, and if I should sign it now the Court might look upon my signature as obtained under coercion." "Ridiculous, sir. I never saw a man more quiet." "That is the mistake of your agitated eye. My nerves are in a tangle." "Let me fix it," said Sawyer, swelling toward Lyman. Lyman smiled at him: "You are pretty heavy in the shoulders, Mr. Sawyer, but you slope down too fast.
"And he's another one that made light of my arrest of the man that choked the sheriff. Coward! of course he is." Mrs. Staggs objected. No one whom McElwin had chosen for a son-in-law could be a coward. She admitted that he was not as gentle as one could wish. His life had been led out of doors. But he was a shrewd business man and would make a good husband.
"Why, Annie Milburn Staggs!" her mother exclaimed. "How can you say such a thing! I don't know what's come over you and your father. I'm getting so I'm afraid to hear you speak, you shock me so." "That's right, Annie," said the old man. "Say exactly what you think. To tell the truth, I'm gettin' sorter tired of bein' trod under by the horse that McElwin rides.
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