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Very healthy thing, sir, a good heart, that is, when not carried to excess. But you have friends of your own in town?" LEONARD. "Not yet, sir; I hope to make them." DOCTOR. "Pless me, you do? How? I can't make any." Leonard coloured and hung his'head. He longed to say, "Authors find friends in their readers, I am going to be an author."
Hallam was dining at another table at the Pless, it seems. I did not then know her. When leaving, she put a note on our table, by my father's elbow. I was astonished beyond words.... He seemed much agitated, told me that he was called away on urgent business, a matter of life and death, and begged me to go alone to Frognall Street, get the jewels and meet him at Mrs.
The lovely countess about whom I had cast the veil of secrecy was no other than the much-discussed Aline Titus and Mr. Pless the expensive Count Tarnowsy. Cold, hard facts took the place of indulgent fancies. The dream was over. I was sorry to have it end. A joyous enthusiasm had attended me while I worked in the dark; now a dreary reality stared me in the face. The sparkle was gone.
He would enliven his tale by making Mr. Pless do something sensational while he was about it, such as yanking his erstwhile companion out of her place of hiding by the hair of her head, or kicking down all the barricades about the place, or fighting a duel with me, or well, there is no end of things he might do for the sake of a "situation." But I am a person of veracity and the truth is in me.
Place comfortable and clean. General sanitation and billeting the same as in all other Russian villages. Reached Pless and left some medical stores with Capt. Watson, then proceeded to Toulgas with medical and Red Cross supplies. On way to headquarters a few stray shots were fired by snipers, but no harm done.
Elsie at once proceeded to go into a long series of conjectures as to the probable whereabouts of Mr. Pless's former wife and their child. I was immensely gratified to find that they were now undivided in their estimate of Mr. Pless and firmly allied on the side of the missing countess.
Pless," I explained. "Sorry," said he, and curtly dismissed the man. I had a notion that the great lawyer looked a trifle disappointed. "I fancy you are wondering why I sent for you, Mr. Smart." "I am." "Am I to assume that the newspapers were correct in stating that you mean to support my cause with I may say, to the full extent of your powers?" "It depends on circumstances, Mr. Pless."
"Bad luck to you! for a Welsh woman as you are," exclaimed the coachman, jumping down from the box, "will I lave the young lady standing in the streets all day alone for you to be making a fool this way of us both? Sorrow take me now! If I do " "Pless us, pe not in a pet or a pucker, or how shall I recollect any body or any thing. Cood! Cood!
On January 9th, a council of German military chieftains was held at Pless; in this it was decided to resume unrestricted submarine warfare. On January 16th the Zimmermann-Mexico telegram was intercepted; this informed Bernstorff, among other things, that this decision had been made.
Pless continued, addressing me. "Of course he will have to pay this money before his daughter may even hope to gain from me the right to share the custody of our little girl, who loves me devotedly. When the debt is fully liquidated, I may consent to an arrangement by which she shall have the child part of the time at least."
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