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George; but take my word for it, the old gentleman is very fond of you." "Very fond! That's a little too strong, isn't it?" "That is, if he's very fond of anything. Now, he said to me yesterday, 'Pritchett, says he, 'that boy's going to Bagdad. 'What! Mr.
Secondly, he left three hundred pounds a year for life to his dear, old, trusty servant, Samuel Pritchett. Mr. Pritchett put his handkerchief up to his face, and sobbed audibly. But he would sooner have had two or three thousand pounds; for he also had an ambition to leave money behind him.
"Well, I can't say that I have exactly; but I don't in the least doubt the figures, not in the least; Mr. Pritchett is always correct, I know." "Yes, Mr. Pritchett is generally correct. And may I ask, Sir Lionel, what you intend to do in the matter?" It was necessary now that Sir Lionel should summon up his best courage.
"But you see I have not time to run across the world to Jerusalem; and were I to do so, the chances are ten to one I should not catch him. If you will ask Pritchett too, you will find that your father is not the best correspondent in the world. Perhaps he has sent back by you some answer to Pritchett's half-yearly letters?" "He has sent nothing by me." "I'll warrant he has not.
If it is to settle that, perhaps I can manage without troubling you to go to Hadley. Not but what settling the account will make matters smoother." Sir Lionel could get nothing more from Mr. Pritchett; but he would not be put off from his intention, and he did go to Hadley. He found his brother sitting up in the dining-room, but he would not have known him.
"I should have been down for the funeral," said Mr. Stickatit; "but I have been kept going about the property, ever since the death, up to this moment, I may say. There's the document, gentlemen." And the will was laid on the table. "The personalty will be sworn under five. The real will be about two more. Well, Pritchett, and how are you this morning?" Sir Henry said but little to anybody.
The season was then over, and his friend Sir Henry was refreshing himself with ten days' grouse-shooting after the successful campaign of the last session. But had he been in London, Bertram would not have seen him, for he saw no one. He asked no questions about Caroline, nor any about his uncle. He did not even call on his sincere friend Pritchett.
Pritchett, with such a look of surprise, with such an awe-struck tone, as might have suited some acquaintance of Æneas's, on hearing that gentleman tell how he had travelled beyond the Styx. Mr. Pritchett was rather fat and wheezy, and the effort made him sigh gently for the next two minutes. Bertram had put on his hat and was going, when Mr.
In this work not only is Boston, our most advanced city, as President Pritchett has shown in detail, far behind Berlin, but German workmen and shopmen a slowly taking the best places even in England; and but for a high tariff, which protects our inferiority, the competitive pressure would be still greater.
George? says I. 'Yes, says he; 'and to Hong Kong too, I suppose, before he comes back: he's going after his father; and then he gave one of those bitter looks, you know. 'That's a pity, says I, for you know one must humour him. 'He is a fool, says your uncle, 'and always will be." "I'm sure, Mr. Pritchett, I'm very much obliged for the trouble you are at in telling me." "Oh!
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