United States or Guinea ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Moffatt reappeared two days after the dinner, presenting himself in West End Avenue in the late afternoon with the explanation that the business in hand necessitated discretion, and that he preferred not to be seen in Ralph's office.
She has gone to tell Margaret Moffatt." "Gone?" Ledyard reeled back a step. "And you permitted that?" "I had no choice. You do not know my my well, Miss Glynn." "Not know her? The young fiend! Not know her? I remember her well. I might have known that no good could come from her. But we can crush her, the young idiot! I do not envy you your fiancée, Dick."
When they had reached the comparative shelter of the interlacing trees Moffatt paused again to say: "If we're going to talk I'd like to see you. Undine;" and after a first moment of reluctance she submissively threw back her veil. He let his eyes rest on her in silence; then he said judicially: "You've filled out some; but you're paler."
Undine Spragg Marvell, of Apex City and New York, got a decree of divorce at a special session of the Court last night, and was remarried fifteen minutes later to Mr. Elmer Moffatt, the billionaire Railroad King, who was the Marquise's first husband. "'No case has ever been railroaded through the divorce courts of this State at a higher rate of speed: as Mr.
Unsuccessful in his attempt, he took ship and sailed for New York, and enlisted in the Northern Army, in a New Hampshire regiment of Volunteers, discarding his own name of Robert Moffatt Livingstone, and taking that of Rupert Vincent that his tutor, who seems to have been ignorant of his duties to the youth, might not find him.
Ralph telephoned once or twice to Moffatt, receiving genially-worded assurances that everything was "going their way"; but he felt a certain embarrassment in returning again to the office, and let himself drift through the days in a state of hungry apprehension. It was useless to attempt to reach Moffatt on Sunday, and Ralph wore on as he could through the succeeding twenty-four hours.
"It's about Margaret Margaret Moffatt." "The All Woman, the happiest creature, next to what you're going to be, in all God's world?" "No!" "No? Priscilla, what do you mean?" "Do not move. Please do not look up. She is engaged to to Clyde Huntter!" "Well?" "I did not know; she never mentioned his name. While we played, names did not matter his, mine, no one's."
"Well, I should think your name's good enough! No one need fear trusting your father's daughter for a few hundred dollars!" Mrs Moffatt protested, while the shopman waxed eloquent in protestation. Cornelia continued to write addresses on the various boxes, without troubling to answer, for the assiduous manner in which her friend advertised her parentage was already beginning to jar.
She must get back to the hotel at once; see Mrs Moffatt and reason with her, argue with her, command her to hand over the jewels! The woman was not all bad, and life had gone hardly with her. She should have another chance!
The commissions themselves were trivial and unimportant, at which Cornelia was not surprised after her personal experience of Mrs Moffatt's shopping eccentricities, but when she had wasted a couple of hours driving to and fro for no tangible result, she waxed impatient, determined that she had done enough for the honour of friendship, and that Mrs Moffatt could herself finish the remaining transactions.
Word Of The Day