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Every few moments some one would break in to ask him something, or to raise a little laugh. Ethel tingled with pride in him, and with hope for the success of her scheming. Now the crucial time arrived. For one by one the guests had gone, till only she and Joe and Nourse remained with Sally and her husband. The moment for springing the great idea had come at last. Nourse was to do the talking.
They were to be patriotic see? named after the presidents of our country cheap and showy terra-cotta main effect red, white and blue." Ethel leaned back with a little gasp. But Nourse added relentlessly, "And Joe didn't turn him down." She stiffened sharply in her chair and looked at Nourse with indignant eyes, as though he alone were to blame.
In the same month Fielding appears as attending a "Meeting of the Partners in the Champion," held at the Feathers Tavern, on June 29. The list of the partners present at the Feathers is given as follows: Present Mr Fielding Mr Nourse Mr Hodges Mr Chappelle Mr Cogan Mr Gilliver Mr Chandler The business recorded was the sale of the "Impressions of the Champion in two Vollumes, 12'o, No. 1000."
She recalled how Nourse had disliked her, she remembered what Amy used to say about the man's worship of business. Yes, with his detestable greed for money, only money, Nourse was doubtless driving Joe.
She tried to signal to Nourse to stop him, but he could or would not hear! Now he was getting ready to speak. "Well," he said, rising and turning on Ethel a curious smile, "I guess it's time I was going home." She stared at him in blank relief. So he had some sense about things, after all.
She couldn't find out. She sent for Nourse and asked him, "What's going on in the office?" "The press agent is pushing him hard," was Nourse's gloomy answer, "for that row of patriotic atrocities up on Riverside Drive." Ethel squirmed. "But he won't!" she cried. "He couldn't!" "Oh, yes he could," Joe's partner growled. "There's so much money in it!" "If he puts that through I'm done for!"
Dwight leads me to believe that wealth is a great inducement with him. It makes his blue eyes twinkle so." "Very well," Nourse answered grimly. "But when you get them twinkling, what are you going to do with him?" "Sing with him," was her firm reply.
Joe had been so successful of late; and she knew that in his office that odious press agent was for ever at him. From Nourse she learned that her husband was even still considering the scheme for a row of buildings named after the presidents. And Ethel had a sinking of heart. "If he does that, I'm lost," she decided.
But as Ethel's dislike of the woman deepened in intensity, gradually Fanny's visits, too, grew less frequent and then ceased. During the first week or two, Joe's partner almost every night came home with him to dinner and took him out for evening walks. But his talk was all of business. It seemed to Ethel that purposely Nourse shut her out of the conversation.
One evening that same week when Nourse had come to dinner, she led the talk by slow degrees to that other plan of Joe's the one with terrace gardens. Soon she had Nourse talking about it, and seeing her husband grow morose she grew cheerily interested. "Oh, I'm very dull, I suppose," she said at the end with a quizzical smile, "but I'm afraid I can't get it clear. Couldn't you draw it?"
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