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"That's stupid, all round," promptly spoke the Briton. "I thought," exclaimed John, resentfully, "we'd changed our State constitution so's to forbid the levy of any school tax by a county or township except on special permission of the legislature." "So you have," laughed the General. "The devil!" exclaimed the Englishman. "O, we had to do that," interposed Proudfit again, and Gamble testified,
And so he was thoroughly pleased when John actually let Champion pass them and asked him, in confidence, what he thought of Proudfit's construction company. "Well, of co'se, John, you know how fah Proudfit is fum being an a-able man; and so does he. He's evm fool enough to think he can sharpen his wits with whiskey, which you know, March, that if that was so I'd myself be as sharp as a ra-azor.
Not one o' the rest'll come near if you give it for me nor if you give it for anybody. Mis' Proudfit, now, she tried to give a noon lunch on St. Patrick's day for Mis' Postmaster Sykes, an' the folks she ask' to it got together an' sent in their regrets.
ON the return trip Garnet sat on the arm of almost every seat except Fannie's. "No, sir; no, keep your seat!" He wouldn't let anybody be "disfurnished" for him! Proudfit had got the place next his wife and thought best to keep it. "Mr. Fair," said Garnet, "I'd like you to notice how all this region was made in ages past. You see how the rocks have been broken and tossed," etc. "Mr.
But then, because Abel turned joyously and naturally to Delia to share with her the tidings, Madame Proudfit looked at Delia too, and saw her eyes. And, "You and Delia and I," she added gently.
President Gamble and his wife have invited a few of us the two Miss Kinsingtons, Mademoiselle, Brother and Sister Tombs, Proudfit, Sister Proudfit, Launcelot Halliday, and Fannie " "Professor Pettigrew?" asked John. "No, just a few of us to a sort of literary evening.
The Black-and-Tannery's effort for a union revival meeting lay at the door of "our church," said Garnet smilingly to Sister Proudfit, "as dead as Ananias." The kind pastor was troubled.
Fair and his father, Captain, have put some money into our" A tall, sallow, youngish man touched the speaker's elbow "Why, hel-lo, Proudfit! Colonel Proudfit, let me make you," etc. "I hope you brought why, Sister Proudfit, I decl' aha, ha, ha! You know Barb?" General Halliday said, "John Wesley, how goes it?" Garnet sobered. "Good-morning, Launcelot. Mr.
I Proudfit am still the invisible head of that comp'ny. Garnet acknowledges it privately to me. He and I have what you may call a per-perfect und-und-unde'standing!" "Perfect und' O me!" interrupted March, with a broken laugh and a frown. Proudfit liked his air and tried to reproduce it, but got his features tangled, rubbed his mouth, and closed his eyes. March stared into vacancy again.
When we drew up at the entrance to Proudfit House we all alighted, Calliope and Abel and I to walk home. But while we were saying good night to Delia, the door opened and Clementina Proudfit stood against the light. The car was to wait, she said, to take Mr. Baring, the lawyer, to the midnight train. And then, as she saw her: "Calliope!" she cried, "I never wanted anybody so much.
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