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Updated: June 3, 2025
And yet Lopez was well aware that he intended that poor Sexty should "arrange" for them, in the event of his failure to make arrangements with Mr. Wharton. At last he was quite unable to let the fortnight pass by without beginning the lessons which his wife had to learn.
"Taste, indeed! When you come to this kind of thing it isn't a matter of taste. The fact is that I am in that fellow's hands to an extent I don't like to think of, and don't see my way out of it unless your father will do as he ought to do. You altogether refuse to help me with your father, and you must, therefore, put up with Sexty Parker and his wife.
Sexty Parker opened his mouth and his eyes, and took the bit of paper that was tendered to him. It was a promissory note for £750, which, if signed by him, would at the end of the specified period make him liable for that sum were it not otherwise paid. His friend Mr. Lopez was indeed applying to him for the assistance of his name in raising a loan to the amount of the sum named.
From day to day things did not go well with him, and from day to day Sexty Parker became more unendurable.
"Of course he does; but he can't take it away with him." "He can leave it to hospitals, Lopez. That's the devil!" "Sexty, my boy, I see you have taken an outlook into human life which does you credit. Yes, he can leave it to hospitals. But why does he leave it to hospitals?" "Something of being afraid about his soul, I suppose." "No; I don't believe in that.
On this day, when the Duke's £500 was turned into the business, Sexty yielded in a large matter which his partner had been pressing upon him for the last week. They bought a cargo of Kauri gum, coming from New Zealand. Lopez had reasons for thinking that Kauri gum must have a great rise.
My husband is talking of going away, to live out of England." "Yes, at a place they call I forget what they call it, but I heard it." "Guatemala, in America." "I know. Sexty told me. He has no business to go anywhere, while he owes Sexty such a lot of money. He has taken everything, and now he's going to Kattymaly!" At this moment Mr. Wharton knocked at the door and entered the room.
I know nothing of my husband's business. I cannot tell you that you should trust to it. He is very clever, but " "But what, ma'am?" "Perhaps I should say that he is ambitious." "You mean he wants to get rich too quick, ma'am." "I'm afraid so." "Then it's just the same with Sexty. He's ambitious too. But what's the good of being ambitious, Mrs.
There was a little argument on the subject, but Sexty Parker had the best of it, and in this way the trip to Dovercourt was arranged.
"Mix yourself another glass," said Sexty to his partner. "I'd rather not. Don't ask me again. You know I never drink, and I don't like being pressed." "By George! You are particular." "What's the use of teasing a fellow to do a thing he doesn't like?" "You won't mind me having another?" "Fifty if you please, so that I'm not forced to join you." "Forced!
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