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But now they added a plea to the effect that the said alleged will was obtained by the undue influence of Augusta Smithers, or, as one of the learned counsel for the defendants put it much more clearly at the trial, "that the will had herself procured the will, by an undue projection of her own will upon the unwilling mind of the testator." And so the time went on.
The Intelligence officer made a note or two and smiled pleasantly but Jeanne could have struck him for daring to smile. "You had every reason for thinking him a man of honour?" "What's the good of asking her that, Smithers?" Captain Willoughby interrupted in English. "Haven't I given you my word? The man's a mysterious little devil, but any fool can see that he's a gentleman." "What do you say?"
Captain Smithers, who fully shared the opinions of her American cousins, took the beautiful invalid to drive with her, and made much of her, and thought her the most charming person she had ever met, and ended, as Daisy meant she should, by inviting her to spend the month of August at Penrhyn Park. "You will meet some very pleasant people," she said, "and I shall be glad to introduce you to them.
Her father had been a clergyman, and, like most clergymen, not overburdened with the good things of this world. When Mr. Smithers or, rather, the Rev. James Smithers had died, he left behind him a widow and two children Augusta, aged fourteen, and Jeannie, aged two.
This was the McPhersons' first day at Penrhyn Park, but the little passage at arms did not at all dim Daisy's sky. Something would turn up, she knew; and at dinner something did turn up, for Mrs. Smithers mentioned to Archie that her husband had fallen in with the young Irish lord who had been for a day or two at the pension in Florence, and, remembering how intimate he was with Mr.
"Oh, you are doing a snug business," said Smithers, in a patronizing tone. "It is our custom whenever we have correspondents who are sound men to encourage them to the utmost. This is the reason why you have always found us liberal and prompt." "You have done great service, Sir," said Potts. "In fact, you have made the Brandon Bank what it is to-day."
He knew a person of the most extraordinary gifts, a medium ... "Paid?" asked Smithers. "Would you muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn?" said Lagune promptly. Smithers' derision was manifest. "Would you distrust a balance because you bought it? Come and see." Lagune was now very excited and inclined to gesticulate and raise his voice.
But the liquor soothed him, and in a burst of mild remorse he told Smithers, after an apprehensive look about him as if he feared some one might overhear: "I'll tell you something, on the dead q. t., for your own benefit." "Fire away!" "Pa. Cent, is going 'way up." "Yes?" said Smithers, calmly. "Yes; it will cross par sure." "Umph!" between munches of a pretzel. "Yes.
Then Evelyn was clinging close to her father, and he was patting her comfortingly, and Smithers was pumping both of Tommy's hands, his normal calmness torn from him for once. But after a bare moment he had gripped himself again. He unloaded an impressive number of parcels from about his person.
"But have you thought of the risk?" said Captain Smithers. "I have thought of everything," said the young man, quietly.
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