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"It appears to me," said Ridout, who was the most outspoken of the party, "that we have a precious dull time of it in the evenings. Macleod, here, is about as talkative as the deer he has slain." The trio had been smoking in silence before a huge fire, but this reference to Edward's great exploit of the day roused them to conversation.

Flint to Hilary which I may have to use. You understand me." "I guessed as much," said Mr. Ridout. "Ahem! I saw young Vane going out of the hotel just now," the senator remarked. "I am told, on pretty good authority, that under certain circumstances, which I must confess seem not unlikely at present, he may be a candidate for the nomination.

Manning, the division superintendent. There was an instant of surprised silence on the part of the three, but the Honourable Hilary was the only one who remained expressionless. "If you don't mind, gentlemen," said the visitor, "I should like to talk to my father for a few minutes." "Why, certainly, Austen," Mr. Ridout replied, with an attempt at heartiness.

Ridout, the counsel of the Northeastern and of the Winona Corporation in the capital, to pay his respects as a man of affairs, and incidentally to leave copies of his bills for the improvement of the State. Mr. Ridout was politely interested, and promised to read the bills, and agreed that they ought to pass. Mr.

Here's Adam Hunt with his back up, declaring he's a reformer, and all his section of the State behind him. Now if that could have been handled otherwise " "Who told Hunt to go in?" Hilary inquired. "Things were different then," said Mr. Flint, vigorously. "Hunt had been promised the governorship for a long time, and when Ridout became out of the question "

I know what I'm talkin' about, and I tell you that Ridout and Jake Botcher and Brush Bascom haven't any more notion of lettin' your bills out of committee than they have Gaylord's. Why? Because they've got orders not to." "You're making some serious charges, Mr. Tooting," said Mr. Crewe. "And what's more, I can prove 'em.

"I'm glad to see you're all right, Vane," he added; "I'd heard that you were a little under the weather a bilious attack on account of the heat that's all I meant." He did not wait for an answer, nor would he have got one. And he found Mr. Ridout in the hall. "Well?" said the lawyer, expectantly, and looking with some curiosity at the senator's face. "Well," said Mr.

Ridout, the Northeastern's capital lawyer, was figuring at the other end of the table; the Honourable Brush Bascom was bending over a wide, sad-faced gentleman of some two hundred and fifty pounds who sat at the centre in his shirt-sleeves, poring over numerous sheets in front of him which were covered with names of the five hundred.

As the sentiment of the song was of the most languorous and 'die-away' sort it was impossible that the two men should abstain from mingling their smiles. The conclusion of the singing was followed by a few remarks from Ridout, one of which provoked a shout of uproarious laughter.

You ought to hold him in he can't work as hard as he used to." "I think you'll find, Mr. Ridout," answered Austen, deliberately, "that he'll perform what's required of him with his usual efficiency." Mr. Ridout followed Austen's figure with his eyes until he was hidden by a turn of the stairs. Then he whistled. "I can't make that fellow out," he exclaimed. "Never could.

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