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Gemma had introduced him to a young Englishman there, a shipping-agent of liberal views, whom she and her husband had known in England.
The shipping-agent was disgusted. He had estimated from Mr. Wrenn's cheap sweater-jacket and tennis-shoes that he would be able to squeeze out only three or four dollars, and here he might have made ten. More in sorrow than in anger: "Of course you understand I may have a lot of trouble working you in on the next boat, you coming as late as this. Course five dollars is less 'n what I usually get."
The arrival of James, in his most pompous mood and accompanied by a stiff, elderly shipping-agent, did not improve matters; and when Gibbons announced that dinner was served, Arthur rose with a little sigh of relief. "I won't come to dinner, Julia. If you'll excuse me I will go to my room." "You're overdoing that fasting, my boy," said Thomas; "I am sure you'll make yourself ill." "Oh, no!
In the midst of these remains a red-headed Yankee of forty, smoking a Pittsburg stogie, sat tilted back in a kitchen chair, reading the Boston American. Mr. Wrenn delivered M. Baraieff's letter and stood waiting, holding his suit-case, ready to skip out and go aboard a cattle-boat immediately. The shipping-agent glanced through the letter, then snapped: "Bryff's crazy. Always sends 'em too early.
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