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Menfolk are like children they'm a pack of worry, but the women can't get along happy wethout en." "Well, at least I haven't any children, Mother Penticost," said Judy, laughing. "Aren't married, are you, my dear? Mr. Ruan ded say 'Miss Parminter' to I when he came about the rooms." "No, I'm not married." "And why's that?" demanded the direct Mrs. Penticost.
She turned to the next of her father's guests. "Mr. Archie Parminter." He at all events looked her straight in the face. He was a man of moderate height, youthful in build, but old of face, upon which there sat always a smirk of satisfaction. He was of those whom no beauty in others, no grace, no sweetness, could greatly impress, so filled was he with self-complacency.
And if you especially want it " Did he notice that Sylvia closed her eyes and really shivered? She could not tell. But he suddenly spoke in a tone of revolt: "But card-playing on Sunday. Really no!" "It's done nowadays at the West-End Clubs," said Archie Parminter. "Oh, is it?" said Garratt Skinner, again grown doubtful. "Is it, indeed?
Lauriston, if he starts a-questioning you! he's the sort that can get a tale out of a dead cod-fish s'elp me, he is! He's a terror, he is! the Coroner ain't in it with him he's a good sort, the Coroner, but Parminter Lord love us! ain't I heard him turn witnesses inside out not half! And here is the Coroner."
Temperly wished her to come back and play a part of that composition of Saint-Saens the last one she had been learning for Mr. and Mrs. Parminter: they wanted to judge whether their daughter could manage it. 'I don't believe she can, said Dora, smiling; but she was moving away to comply when her companion detained her a moment. Are you going to bid me good-bye?
I will have it, I tell you. I am not a child," and an oath or two garnished the sentences. Sylvia heard her father reply with the patronage which never failed to sting the vanity of his companion, which was the surest means to provoke a quarrel, if a quarrel he desired. "Go to bed, Wallie! Leave such things to Archie Parminter! You are too young."
Every eye was turned on Lauriston as he stood in the witness-box, evidently thinking deeply. And in two pairs of eyes there was deep anxiety: Melky was nervous and fidgety; Zillah was palpably greatly concerned. But Lauriston looked at neither and he finally turned to Mr. Parminter with a candid glance. "The rings are mine," he answered. "But I don't know how I can prove that they are!"
Blanche was in raptures over the names Penticost and Paradise, and would have been in raptures over her landlady too if that worthy woman had not chosen to be rather unresponsive towards her, though frankly adoring the little friend Judith Parminter.
If it were true that her father knew, why then Barstow or Parminter must have told him this very morning. And if he had seen either of them this morning, all his talk to her in this cool and quiet place was a carefully prepared hypocrisy. No, she would not believe that. "You saw them?" he exclaimed. "Tell me how."
"That check would be a very dangerous thing if Parminter ever came to hear of it. Better give it to me." He leaned over and took it gently from before her, and put it carefully away in his pocket. "Now, you see, there's more reason ever why we should get Wallie Hine away from those two men. He is living a bad life here. Three weeks in the country may set his thoughts in a different grove.
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