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Of course, if you'd been brash and ignorant in your first calculations if you'd made a fool of yourself at the start but shucks! you're the son of Daniel J. Bines, ain't you?" The rule and the clever provocation had their effect. "I'll raise as long as I have a chip left, Uncle Peter. Why, only to-day I had a tip that came straight from Shepler, though he never dreamed it would reach me.
Milbrey scorned to be dazzled by her triumph. "Nonsense! Shepler asked her last night to marry him." "It's bewildering! I never dreamed " "I've expected it for months. I could tell you the very moment when the idea first seized the man on the yacht last summer. I was sure she interested him, even before his wife died two years ago." "Margaret, it's too good to be true!"
I'd 'a' trusted you soon's I would Shepler, and now look what you led us into fortune gone broke and all your fault!" "Don't, Uncle Peter don't, for God's sake not when I'm down! I can't stand it!"
Indeed, I think more of you. I think it's fine and big to go back with such courage. Do you know, I wish I were a man I'd show them!" "Really, Miss Milbrey " He looked over her shoulder again, and saw that Shepler was waiting for her. "I think your friends are impatient." "They can wait. Mr. Bines, I wonder if you have quite a correct idea of all New York people."
Shepler, if there hadn't been a chance to get back a cent of it if we'd had to go plumb broke back to the West in an emigrant car, with bologna and crackers to eat, that's what I'd have done. No, sir, no help fur him!" "Aren't you a little hard on him?" "Not a bit; don't I know the stock, and know just what he needs?
"And, Mr. Bines, do come in with that quaint old grandfather of yours and lunch with us," urged Mrs. Milbrey, who had, as it were, spiked her lorgnon. "Here's Mr. Shepler to second the invitation and then we shall chat about this very interesting West." Miss Milbrey nodded encouragement, seeming to chuckle inwardly.
Percival fancied there was a look almost of regret in the girl's eyes. "I'm afraid," said Shepler, "your aunt doesn't want to be kept waiting. And she's already in a fever for fear you won't prefer the necklace she insists you ought to prefer." "Tell Aunt Cornelia, please, that I shall be along in just a moment." "She's quite impatient, you know," urged Shepler. Percival extended his hand.
I suppose he'll be a little more fastidious, as the brother-in-law of Shepler. In fact I heard that the family had shut down on any talk of his marrying her." "Still, she ought to be able to do well here. Any man that would marry a woman fur money wouldn't object to her. One of these fortune-hunting Englishmen, now, would snap her up." "She hasn't quite enough for that.
Shepler has been, I surely would never dare to gamble in anything else you know the saying." "And you, Mr. Bines. I've been hearing so much of your marriage. I hope the rumour I heard to-day is true, that your engagement has been announced." He laughed. "Come, now! That's all gossip, you know; not a word of truth in it, and it's been very annoying to us both.
"You're guessing now, and you're as keen at that as I. Avice is not only amazingly self-willed, as you intimated a moment since, but she is intensely secretive. When she left me I could get nothing from her whatever. She was wretchedly sullen and taciturn." "But why should she hesitate? Shepler Rulon Shepler! My God! is the girl crazy? The very idea of hesitation is preposterous!"
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