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"Very decided ones." "In a general way, Nairn's advice strikes me as quite sensible. Wherever mining and other schemes are floated, there are men who make a good living out of the operations. They're trained to the business; they've control of the money; and when a new thing's put on the market, they consider they've the first claim on the pickings. As a rule, that notion seems to be justified."
Vane happened to be in a confidential mood; though usually averse to sharing his troubles, he felt that he needed sympathy. "I'd better confess that I wrote Miss Chisholm a few lines from Nanaimo." "And she didn't answer you? Now, I couldn't well help noticing that you were rather in her bad graces that night at Nairn's the thing was pretty obvious. No doubt you're acquainted with the reason?"
Here the boats had been fired upon and forced to put to shore, when the men were, by the Nairn's orders, all butchered, and the women and children sent to share the fate of the prisoners of Cawnpore.
"I had ye shown in here, because this room is mine, and I can smoke when I like. The rest of the house is Mrs. Nairn's, and it seems that her friends do not appreciate the smell of my cigars. I'm no sure that I can blame them." Mrs. Nairn smiled placidly. "Alic," she explained, "leaves them lying everywhere, and I do not like the stubs of them on the stairs.
An hour had passed before they went down to join the guests who were arriving for the evening meal. As a rule, the western business man, who is more or less engrossed in his occupation except when he is asleep, enjoys little privacy; and Nairn's friends sometimes compared his dwelling to the rotunda of a hotel.
In the business parts of most western cities iron and stone have now replaced the native lumber, but on their outskirts wood is still employed with admirable effect as a building material, and Nairn's house was an example of the judicious use of the latter.
It was the afternoon before Vane's departure for the North, and Evelyn, sitting alone for the time being in Mrs. Nairn's drawing-room, felt disturbed by the thought of it. She sympathized with his object, as it had been briefly related by her hostess, but she supposed there was a certain risk attached to the journey, and that troubled her.
One doesn't meet with too much kindness in this blamed censorious world." "I'd expect you to remember," Carroll smiled. They went in to dinner and when the meal was over they walked across to Nairn's. They were ushered into a room in which several other guests were assembled, and Vane sat down beside Jessy Horsfield.
"The Clermont finances are now on a sound basis, but it might after all prove advantageous to raise further capital; although in such a case we would, perhaps, lie open to attack. Nairn's inclined to be cryptic in his remarks; but he seems to hint that it would be advisable to make Horsfield some concession in other words, to buy him off." "Which is a course you have objections to?"
Nairn's smile was half a sigh. "There were no books and no many amusements when I was young. We sat through the long winter forenights, counting stitches, in the old gray house at Burnfoot, under the Scottish moors. That, my dear, was thirty years ago." She shook hands with Vane as he left the house with Jessy, and standing on the stoop she watched them cross the lawn.
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