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Pett's horror of Jimmy grew. "I told him, of course," said Jimmy, "that you had very kindly invited me to stay with you, and he told me all, about his trouble and implored me to plead for him. If you had seen him when I did, all gloom and repentance, you would have been sorry for him. Your woman's heart " Whatever Jimmy was about to say regarding Mrs.
All this will wear off, however, and you will be surprised and delighted as you begin to understand my true self. Beneath the surface I speak conservatively I am a corker!" The door banged behind Ann. Jimmy found himself alone. He walked thoughtfully to Mr. Pett's armchair and sat down. There was a feeling of desolation upon him. He lit a cigarette and began to smoke pensively.
Pett's being invited by me to dinner. So home, calling at my little mercer's in Lumbard Streete, who hath the pretty wench, like the old Queene, and there cheapened some stuffs to hang my roome, that I intend to turn into a closett.
He tells me of the business of Sir J. Minnes and Sir W. Pen, which I knew before, but took no notice or little that I did know it. But he told me it was chiefly to make Mr. Pett's being joyned with Sir W. Batten to go down the better, and do tell me how he well sees that neither one nor the other can do their duties without help.
So into the Duke of York's closet; and there, among other things, Sir W. Coventry did take notice of what he told me the other day, about a report of Commissioner Pett's dealing for timber in the Navy, and selling it to us in other names; and, besides his own proof, did produce a paper I had given him this morning about it, in the case of Widow Murford and Morecocke, which was so handled, that the Duke of York grew very angry, and commanded us presently to fall into the examination of it, saying that he would not trust a man for his sake that lifts up the whites of his eyes.
Brereton," he said in a thin, wheedling voice. "I've no doubt you've seen me before, sir? I've seen you often round about the Courts, Mr. Brereton though I've never had the pleasure of putting business in your way as yet, Mr. Brereton, as yet, sir! But " Brereton, to whom Bent had transferred Mr. Christopher Pett's card, glanced again at it, and from it to its owner.
I walked to the Docke, where I met Mrs. Ackworth alone at home, and God forgive me! what thoughts I had, but I had not the courage to stay, but went to Mr. Pett's and walked up and down the yard with him and Deane talking about the dispatch of the ships now in haste, and by and by Creed and my wife and a friend of Mr.
He went to find more congenial company in a group by the window. Lord Wisbeach turned to his hostess. The vacuous expression had dropped from his face like a mask. A pair of keen and intelligent eyes met Mrs. Pett's. "Mrs. Pett, may I speak to you seriously?" Mrs. Pett's surprise at the alteration in the man prevented her from replying.
He had laid it folded on the chair, had deposited his other garments in layers upon it, had set his candlestick and a box of matches on top of all. And everything had always been there, just as he had placed things, every morning when he opened his eyes. But he had come to know Miss Pett's stealthiness by that time, and ...
He had thought the repulsive title buried forever in the same tomb as his dead youth. Patient Pete! The first faint glimmer of the flame of rebellion began to burn in his bosom. "Patient Pete!" "Patient Pete!" said Ann inexorably. "But, Ann," there was pathos in Mr. Pett's voice "I like a peaceful life." "You'll never have one if you don't stand up for yourself.
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