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But to quarrel with Pilkington on this head would have provoked the vulgarest of comments, and for Miss Harden's sake he restrained himself. Dicky remained unconscious. "I'm glad you put me up to offering some of those books back. It goes against me to sell them, but what the devil am I to do?" "I can't tell you." "I shan't collar all this furniture, either. I'll buy in some of it and return it.
And when a New York theatrical manager does that, it is a certain sign that his mood is of the worst. One may find excuses for Mr Goble. "The Rose of America" would have tested the equanimity of a far more amiable man: and on Mr Goble what Otis Pilkington had called its delicate whimsicality jarred profoundly.
I'm afraid it was responsible for your illness." He protested. But she stuck to it. "And after all I might just as well have let you go. For the library will have to be sold. But I did not know that." "I knew it, though." "You knew it? How did you know it?" "I know Mr. Pilkington, who knows my father. He practically gave him the refusal of the library.
"That girl . . . I said she was some pippin!" "Miss Mariner," said Mr Pilkington icily, "is a most charming, refined, cultured, and vivacious girl, if you mean that." "Yes," said Mr Trevis. "That was what I meant!" Jill walked out into Forty-second Street, looking about her with the eye of a conqueror.
"Won't you take a seat, Miss . . ." "Mariner," prompted Jill. "Thank you." "Miss Mariner. May I introduce Mr Roland Trevis?" The man at the piano bowed. His black hair heaved upon his skull like seaweed in a ground swell. "My name is Pilkington. Otis Pilkington." The uncomfortable silence which always follows introductions was broken by the sound of the telephone-bell on the desk.
Stimcoe in deshabille, on the first-floor landing, under the derisive surveillance of Masters Doggy Bates, Bob Pilkington, and Scotty Maclean, whose graceless mirth echoed down to me from the stair-rail immediately overhead.
At other times the housekeeper was the mistress of the magnificent mansion had four covers daily for her table; was visited by the clergy and the most respectable people of the county was the lady of Gauntly, in fact; and the two last housekeepers before Mrs. Pilkington had married rectors of Gauntly but Mrs. P. could not, being the aunt of the present Rector.
On a rude ornamental stone, above the threshold of the porch, the date of the building was quaintly carved, "1696," with the initials, "J. S.," and then, a little lower down, and partly between these, the letter "P.," as if intended for "John and Sarah Pilkington."
He wondered more and more, and ended by wondering whether Dicky Pilkington were really so sure of his game? "I see. You want a catalogue raisonné." "I want something like this." She opened a drawer and showed him one of Rickman's Special Quarterly Catalogues of a year back. He remembered; it used to be sent regularly to old Sir Joseph Harden, their best customer.
"I was tired," I said. "I was to sprain my ankle," she observed sarcastically. "I just thought as I was sitting there alone " "Where's Tish?" "A young man named Ellis came and took her out for a ride," said Aggie. "He couldn't take us both, as the car holds only two." I got up and stared at Aggie in the twilight. "You come straight home with me, Aggie Pilkington," I said sternly.
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