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Henry said to a bystander. "Begod," said the man, "I think there's a rebellion on. That's what this woman says anyway!" "A what?" "A rebellion or something of the sort. You can ask her yourself! Begod, it's a quare day to have it. The people'll not enjoy themselves at all...." Henry turned to the woman who was standing in the centre of the group, endlessly relating her experience.
"I wonder you didn't put it in a sling while you were about it," he remarked ungratefully. "People'll think I've been trying to cut my throat." "Monsieur should grow a beard," counseled the chemist as he handed him his change. Raleigh grunted, disdaining, retort, and passed forth to his waiting cab. The day had commenced inauspiciously.
Justin nodded. 'And what about the money the rest of it what's short, you know? Archie went on. 'Oh that'll be all right. We'll manage it somehow. The people'll wait a week or two. Don't you tell any one. Where's Pat? I want to tell him myself. 'He went upstairs to look for mamma and the little ones, said Archie. 'Mamma was wondering why we were so late.
"You mustn't stay these people'll be here directly." "Horrible money people," she returned, "and you'd send me away for them." "I told you " he began. "You told me they'd found an easy way for you to get out a safe way. It isn't true." "How do you know?" was startled from him. "I found out tonight from Lord Almont.
Samson queried, as he looked quizzically at Reynolds. "Not this time," was the laughing reply. "I have learned a lesson." "In the school of experience, I guess. It's the only school in which some people'll ever learn anything." "Chiefly babies and fools, so I've heard," Reynolds replied.
"Oh, what ARE you going to do, Laura?" cried Pin, in anxiety. "I'm going to have a good run," said Laura; and tightened her hair-ribbon. "Oh, but you can't run in the street! You're too big. People'll see you." "Think I care? If you'd been years only doing what you were allowed to, I guess you'd want to do something you weren't allowed to, too. Good-bye!"
He knows he's fit for it. He's sthronger thin th' young lawyer they have now. People'll listen to him in Wash'nton as they do in Chicago. He says: 'I'll take it. An' thin he thinks iv th' wife an' they's no Wash'nton f'r him. His pollytical career is over. He wud niver have been constable if he hadn't marrid, but he might have been sinitor if he was a widower." "Mrs.
"Somebody's cleared out of this place about as quick as he could! Money left lying about unfinished meal door open all sure indications. Well, we've seen enough for the present. Our people'll make a thorough search later. Come downstairs again."
But Aunt Rebecca went on, astonishing the other woman more and deepening the conviction that the strange talk was due to flightiness. "Yes, I made a will! Some people'll say I was crazy, but you tell them for me I'm as sane as any one. My goodness, can't abody do what abody wants with your own money? Didn't I slave and scratch and skimp like everything all my life!
Of course you were right; it's an abominable scandal to let these niggers loose; but at home people'll never understand it. If your name were to come out, you would be done, right away. And," he looked at him keenly, "your lady friends should know better than to be alone in that part of Oxford Street.
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