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I must be at the Bank before three. Good-bye, my boy." This was all his uncle said to him at their first meeting. Then he saw Mr. Pritchett for a moment. "Oh, Mr. George, I am glad to see you back, sir; very glad indeed, sir. I hear you have been to very foreign parts. I hope you have always found the money right, Mr. George?" Mr.
At three o'clock Bertram was with Pritchett, and learned from that gentleman, in the most frozen tone of which he was capable, and with sundry little, good-humoured, asthmatic chuckles, that he had been desired to make arrangements for paying to Mr. George regularly an income of two hundred a year, to be paid in the way of annuity till Mr.
Pritchett," said she, "I am going to live with Mr. Bertram after another month or so." "Oh, ma'am; yes, ma'am; that will be very proper, ma'am. I always supposed it would be so when Miss Caroline was gone," said Pritchett, in a melancholy tone. "But will it be proper for me to have this money now?" "Oh, yes, ma'am. It wouldn't be my duty to stop any payments till I get orders. Mr.
"I only know I have paid regularly one hundred and fifty pounds a year to your order, and I find from Pritchett" Pritchett was his man of business "that I am paying it still." "He sent me the last quarter the other day; but I have not touched it." "Never mind; let that pass. I don't know what your father's views are about you, and never could find out." "I'll ask him. I mean to go and see him."
Sir Henry had not seen his wife since that day now nearly twelve months since on which she had separated herself from him. He had made a formal application to her to return to him, but nothing had come of it; and Mr. Pritchett took upon himself to surmise again, that Sir Henry was too anxious about the old gentleman's money to take any steps that could be considered severe, until . And then Mr.
It might be that he could talk the sick man round; and if that were impracticable, he might at least learn how others stood in his brother's favour. Sir Lionel was not now a young man himself. Ease and a settled life would be good for him. What, if he married Miss Baker! He first called on Pritchett. Mr. Pritchett told him that his brother was better considerably better.
Pritchett, recovering himself, asked yet a further question. "And what did you think of Miss Waddington, sir?" "Think of her!" said George. "A very beautiful young lady; isn't she? and clever, too. I knew her father well, Mr. George very well. Isn't she a very handsome young lady? Ah, well! she hasn't money enough, Mr. George; that's the fact; that's the fact. But" and Mr.
"Write to him, Mr. Pritchett! No, I don't suppose I shall. I take it, my uncle does not much care for such letters as I should write." "Ah! but he would, Mr. George. You shouldn't be too quick to take persons by their appearances. It's half a million of money, you know, Mr. George; half a million of money!" And Mr. Pritchett put great stress on the numeration of his patron's presumed wealth.
"Who heard from Harold last?" asked Devitt presently. "I did," replied Miss Spraggs. "It was on Tuesday he wrote." "How did he write?" "Quite light-heartedly. He has now for some weeks: such a change for him." "H'm!" "Why do you ask?" said Mrs Devitt. "I saw Pritchett when I was in town yesterday." "Harold's doctor?" queried Miss Spraggs. "He told me he'd seen Harold last week." "At Swanage?"
"Oh, yes, Miss Baker is there. She doesn't go to any furren parts, master George." "And and " "Yes, she's in the house, too poor creature poor creature!" "Then how am I to go there?" said George, speaking rather to himself than to Mr. Pritchett. "What! you wouldn't stay away from him now because of that? You ought to go to him, master George, though there were ten Lady Harcourts there or twenty."
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