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It all looked wonderful, quite wonderful. She again determined to write to her bankers that very evening before dinner. "You're going to the theatre to-night, aren't you, Austin?" she said, as he returned from seeing Mr Sheepshanks courteously off the premises. "I want you to post a letter for me on your way. Post it at the Central Office, so as to be sure it catches the night mail.
"What is it shares or bonds?" "Shares," replied Mr Sheepshanks; "shares. Of course I know that very prudent people will tell you that bonds are safer. And no doubt, as a rule they are. If a concern fails, the bond-holder is a creditor, while the shareholder is a debtor besides having lost his capital. But in this case there is no fear of failure."
He's sadly behindhand with his rent, as I was saying, but if he's really ill, I must see after Sheepshanks, who is a hardish man of business. What's his complaint? You'll come to our school-scrimmage on Thursday, little girl what's-your-name? Mind you send her, or bring her, Gibson; and just give a word to your groom, for I'm sure that pony wasn't singed last year, now, was he?
Dalmahoy was seated on the floor of the car, and helping Mr. Sheepshanks to unpack a carpet bag. "This will be whisky," the little pawnbroker announced: "three bottles. My wife said, 'Surely, Elshander, ye'll find whisky where ye're gaun. 'No doubt I will, said I, 'but I'm not very confident of its quality; and it's a far step. My itinerary, Mr.
Sheepshanks exclaimed, with an air of amazement, "Is it possible, my friends, that you are willing to violate the natural laws of health by eating dishes at which a child of nature would be horrified! Not for me be so degenerate a meal! I shall lunch on fare such as a wild Indian best loves!"
It seems to me that the enterprise is promising in a very high degree." "How very remarkable!" observed Aunt Charlotte, as she gazed at the tabulated figures and enumeration of chemical properties in bewildered awe. "And you think it a safe investment?" "I do," replied Mr Sheepshanks, "but don't act on my opinion judge for yourself.
At this altitude one shank was more than we had a right to expect: the plural multiplies the obligation." Keeping a tight hold on his hysteria, Dalmahoy steadied himself by a rope and bowed. "And I, sir," as Mr. Sheepshanks' thoroughly bewildered gaze travelled around and met mine "I, sir, am the Vicomte Anne de Kéroual de Saint-Yves, at your service.
"It was not," said the curate's friend. Mrs Sheepshanks immediately turned to Aunt Charlotte, and remarked that feather boas were likely to be more than ever in fashion when the weather changed; and Aunt Charlotte said she had heard from a most authoritative source that pleated corselets were to be the rage that autumn.
Sheepshanks back his five pounds." "O, come now!" the aëronaut objected. "And who may you be, to be ordering a man about?" "I believe I have already answered that question twice in your hearing." "Mosha the Viscount Thingamy de Something-or-other? I dare say!" "Have you any objection?" "Not the smallest.
"Add to this," I proceeded, "that you have to explain Sheepshanks; to confess that you gulled the public by advertising a lonely ascension, and haranguing a befooled multitude to the same intent, when, all the time, you had a companion concealed in the car. 'A public character! you call yourself! My word, sir! there'll be no mistake about it, this time."
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