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He hastened to add, "The ordinary Army-mule, you know, is specially constructed with a cast-iron mouth, and a neck of granite, and a disposition like like Mr. Pixley's. I imagine Mr. Pixley can be excessively unpleasant when he tries. To me he is excessively unpleasant even to think of, and without any exertion whatever on his part." "Yes. Mrs. Pixley would rather convey that impression.
"Zizel," read Graeme slowly "There is bad news. Amadou your father. Zebu has bolted. Zeta we fear the smash will be a bad one. Eno ?" "My partner's initials they certify the wire," said Pixley hoarsely. And they looked soberly at one another and very pitifully at the broken man before them. "Don't take it too hard, Pixley," said Graeme quietly, laying a friendly hand on the other's shoulder.
Pixley before the middle of next week, unless I'm very much mistaken," he said. "He says there's nothing doing on the Stock Exchange, and he can fix things with his partner to get away for a time, and it seems the wisest thing to do." "I have liked Charles better this time than I ever did in my life before," said Margaret. "And I am very very sorry for him and Mrs. Pixley."
Jeremiah Pixley. So he wrote "DEAR MISS BRANDT, I wrote to you a few days ago, giving you the information of our dear friend Lady Elspeth's sudden summons to Inverstrife, to attend her niece, the Countess of Assynt.
After winter really begins, in September, the snow is often from seven to ten feet deep and the drifts pile up against the walls of the Hospice as high as the third story roof." "I had planned to visit Berne," Mr. Pixley spoke now, "but after this sample of your winter weather I have decided to return home to California. I do not enjoy snow storms. We have none where I live, you know."
"What I was goin' to say," went on the official, exhibiting tokens of impatience and perturbation, "was that if we should make any switch this year, I guess you boys would have to switch straight." "'Tis true!" was the hearty response. "Vote a straight Republican. Republican eternall!" Pixley wiped his forehead with a dirty handkerchief, and scratched his head.
Carré and her helpers cleared the rooms for the festivities of the evening, and prepared the milder and more intermittent refections necessary thereto, Graeme and Pixley and the Vicar and others set the children to games and races, for which indeed their previous exertions at the tables had not best fitted them, but which nevertheless, or perhaps on that very account, were provocative of much laughter and merriment.
Wall, the water is good, there haint no doubt, and anyway, through the water and the air, and bein' took out of her home cares, and old surroundin's onto a brght happy place, the change in Polly Pixley is sunthin' to be wondered at. Yes, the water is good. And it is dretful smart, knowin' water too.
The radiant sun of all his rosy heavens was Margaret Brandt, and he would not for one moment admit the possibility of its clouding by anything of the name of Pixley. Graeme had not the entrée of the Pixley mansion. Mr. Pixley he knew, by repute only, as the head of Pixley's, the great law-firm, in Lincoln's Inn. Mrs. Pixley he had never met. Mr.
"How long, O Lord, how long?" chaunted his heart, with no sense of impropriety, for it was sounding pæans of joyful hope. " You see " said Margaret. "I see." "Do you think they could make me go back to him?" she asked anxiously. "To Mr. Pixley? Certainly not that is if your reasons for leaving him seemed adequate to the Court, as I am sure they would." She offered no explanation on this point.
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