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'Now, grumbler, retorted the intrepid child, putting her gloved hand suddenly over her father's mouth; Stanway submitted. The picture of the two in this delicious momentary contact remained long in Twemlow's mind; and he thought that Stanway could not be such a brute after all.
'Is dinner ready? she asked, looking at the small clock which she usually carried about with her from room to room. 'Yes 'm. 'Then ring the gong. And tell Carpenter I shall want the trap at a quarter past two, for two. I'm going to shop in Hanbridge and then to meet Mr. Stanway at Knype. We shall be in before four. Have some tea ready. And don't forget the eclairs to-day, Bessie. She smiled.
'Now, girls, said Stanway with loud good humour, invading the select apartment with his followers, 'time to go. Carpenter's been waiting half-an-hour. Your foot all right again, Nora? 'Quite, she replied. 'Are you really ready? She had so interminably waited that she could not believe the evening to be at length actually finished.
John Stanway stood up, gazing at his wife with an air of martyrised virtue which said: 'There! what do you think of that as a specimen of the worries which I keep to myself? She raised her eyebrows with a gesture of deep concern. And all the time she was asking herself: 'Why did Uncle Meshach alter his will? Why did he do that?
She sighed in despair, hesitating to give up the paper. 'Mr. Twemlow, by appointment, announced a clerk, and Arthur Twemlow walked into the office. 'Hallo, Twemlow! said Stanway, meeting him gaily. 'I was just expecting you. My new confidential clerk. Eh? He pointed to Ethel, who flushed to advantage. 'You've plenty of them over there, haven't you girl-clerks?
Stanway cares, I will walk down with her, said Arthur Twemlow. 'Yes, do, Twemlow, there's a good chap, he welcomed the idea. And with that he wafted them impulsively into the street. Then Stanway stood waiting by his equipage for Ethel and Milly. He spoke to no one, but examined the harness critically, and put some curt question to Carpenter about the breeching.
'There is a short codicil, Dain added, 'which revokes the legacy of two hundred and fifty pounds to Mr. Ryley in case Mr. Myatt should survive the testatrix. It is dated some six months ago. 'Kindly read it, said Stanway coldly. 'With pleasure, the lawyer agreed, and he read it.
She was glad that she had left him alone for a minute, because such familiar treatment of him somehow established definitely his status as a friend of the house. 'Listen, Twemlow, said Stanway loudly, 'I meant to run down to the office for an hour this afternoon, but if you'll stay, I'll stay. That's a bargain, eh?
John Stanway had a singular capacity for not enjoying himself on those social occasions when to enjoy one's self is a duty to the company. But this evening, as the hour advanced, he showed the symptoms of a sharp attack of gaiety such as visited him from time to time. He and Dr.
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