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And if she tries to keep him from work by yanking him all around to the shops " While Nourse growled on in his surly way, Ethel slipped quietly into the hall where presently Sally with one arm about her was proffering a handkerchief and murmuring. "Use mine, dear."
On the one hand were the influences of Nourse and Dwight and the men at the club, to which he went nearly every day. He took part in discussions there, long rambling talks and arguments. And his old ideals were rising hungrily within him. But meanwhile the business man in Joe kept savagely putting the dreamer down, and for days he would plunge into his work and the fever of the money game.
And as at last he kissed her and tore himself away from his home, she had smiled to herself delightedly at the guilty look in his eyes. This kind of thing would cause a decided coolness, no doubt, between Joe and his partner. So much the better, she had thought, for she detested that man Nourse, and in his case she could quite openly admit, "I'm jealous of you and your business devotion!
By HON. HENRY S. NOURSE. The facts that have come down to us whereupon to build a biography of John Prescott are scanty indeed, but enough to prove that he was that rare type of man, the ideal pioneer.
"So far," Nourse reminded her, "I'm the only circle you've got." "Yes, and a very nice one. And now you're going to be a dear, and go to this man Dwight and say what a remarkable voice I have and tell him all my other points, and the hole I'm in and the money I have. Don't forget that the money I have for my acquaintance with Mr.
In fact, when Joe married and brought his wife and the Crothers together, it wasn't a go. She called your sister 'hopeless. And when Joe's wife came back at her by keeping Crothers out of our firm, then war was declared." Nourse broke off and looked at Ethel. "So you see what you're up against," he said. "Yes, I see," said Ethel.
At another time she suggested that Joe's partner be asked to spend the rest of the summer with him in the apartment back in town. It was doubtless so much cooler at night than Nourse's bachelor quarters. And Emily Giles could take care of them both. But this overture, too, Bill Nourse declined.
"But look here, Bill," said her husband, "before you go, let's give these scheming women of ours to understand we don't want 'em to meddle in our affairs." "Right," growled Nourse. And a moment later the three men confronted two astonished wives, and Bill was gravely announcing, "We've done this thing all by ourselves.
For in the following letter to Mr Nourse, the bookseller, dated July 1739, we find him requiring a London house at a rent of forty pounds and with a large "eating Parlour." "Mr Nourse, Disappointments have hitherto prevented my paying y'r Bill, which, I shall certainly do on my coming to Town which will be next Month. I desire the favour of y'u to look for a House for me near the Temple.
She got him to tell her of Nourse and Dwight, the old friends she herself had put on his trail, and of new friends he had met in his club "the club I elected you to," she exulted. But the next instant she would add, "Oh, Ethel, you're so ignorant! If you only knew about his work!" And knitting her brows she would listen hard while he talked of steel construction.
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