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"He says that very few give their lives to or for any cause. They nearly always give them for a person." "Mr Keith must be a hero of chivalry," drawled Mr Parmenter, showing his white teeth in a lazy laugh. "Chivalry ought to be another name for Christian courage and charity," saith my Aunt Kezia. "Ay, child Mr Keith is right. It is a pity it isn't always the right person."
An elderly man had charge of it a Mr. Parmenter. "Can I take out a book?" asked Harry. "Do you live in town?" "Yes, sir." "I don't remember seeing you before. You don't live in this village, do you?" "No, sir. I live in the lower village." "What is your name?" "Harry Walton." "I don't remember any Walton family." "My father lives in Granton. I am working for Mr. James Leavitt."
I daresay Lord Westerham will be able to explain what I might have said better than I could. There's not time for it just now, I've got to get a train to Bolton in an hour's time." "And I'll have to be in Glasgow to-night," said Mr Parmenter, rising. "I hope you won't think it very inhospitable of us, Lady Margaret: but business is business, you know, and more so than usual in times like these.
The terms he offered were half a million a week for the services of twenty-five airships till the war was ended. Two were retained as guardians for Whernside House and the observatory, and three for the Great Lever colliery, and this left twenty, not counting the original Columbia, which Mr Parmenter had bought as his aërial yacht, available for warlike purposes.
I'll meet you half way. For the present you shall take the pit for nothing and pay all expense connected with making a cannon of it. If that cannon does its work you shall pay me two hundred thousand pounds for the use of it and I'll take your I.O.U. for the amount now. Will that suit you?" "That's business," said Mr Parmenter, getting up and going to Lennard's desk.
By a curious coincidence which, as events proved, was to have some serious consequences, almost at the same moment that Commander Erskine began to write his report on the strange vision which he and his Lieutenant had seen, Gilbert Lennard came out of the Observatory which Mr Ratliffe Parmenter had built on the south of the Whernside Hills in Yorkshire.
"I don't know how this particular miracle has been arranged," said Lord Westerham, as he gave his hand to Norah and took her out of the car, "but a re-introduction is, if you will allow me to say so, Miss Parmenter, rather superfluous.
Mr Parmenter and his brother capitalists had guaranteed two millions sterling as compensation for such destruction of property as might be brought about by the discharge of the cannon, and, coupled with this guarantee, was a request that everyone living within five miles of what had been the Great Lever pit should leave, and this was authorised by a Royal Proclamation.
It's worth doing, anyhow, if it's only to show what new-world enterprise helped with old-world brains can do in bringing off a really big thing, and that's why I want to buy that colliery." "Well, Mr Parmenter," laughed Lord Westerham again, "we won't quarrel over that. I'm not a business man, but I believe it's generally recognised that the essence of all business is compromise.
To my astonishment, as soon as I had left her, what should Hatty do but walk up and shake hands with Cecilia, and in a few minutes they and Mr Parmenter were all laughing about something. I was amazed beyond words. I had always thought Hatty pert, teasing, disagreeable; but never underhand or mean.
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