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Thresk filled his pipe and lighted it, Ballantyne for his part lit a cheroot and replaced the box upon the top, close to a heavy riding-crop with a bone handle, which Thresk happened now to notice for the first time. "Be quick!" he cried impatiently to Baram Singh, and seated himself in the swing-chair in front of the bureau, turning it so as not to have his back to Thresk at the table.
The man at the desk shrugged his shoulders, then, helping her to a comfortable seat on the arm-chair, said: "All right. What is it, Rosy Posie?" "Uncle Em, am I rich?" "Er what's that? Oh, well," judiciously, "you'll do." "Very rich? How rich, Uncle Em?" The big swing-chair revolved with rapidity, to the peril of the young lady on its arm.
The consideration of these factors impelled Merrington to inform the waiting janitor that he would see Mr. Colwyn at once, and even caused him to crease his fat red features into a smile of welcome as he awaited his entrance. When Colwyn appeared in the doorway the big man he had called to see got up from his swing-chair to shake hands with him.
Cassius was familiarly known as Uncle Cash, partly because there was a disposition in Edgewood to abbreviate all Christian names, and partly because the old man paid cash, and expected to be paid cash, for everything. The late summer grew into autumn, and the minister's great maple flung a flaming bough of scarlet over Mrs. Baxter's swing-chair.
Then he gave her his swing-chair as the only comfortable one in the bare room, adding, "I hope you have come to tell me that your mother has changed her mind." "Indeed I haven't! What do you take us for, Howard?" "For an exceedingly rash party of pleasure-hunters if you have decided to stay here through what is likely to happen before to-morrow morning.
"You looking for him, Jim?" "No. But I've got a hunch he's looking for me." "Just how bad do you think he wants to see you?" queried Baxter, tilting back his swing-chair and glancing sideways at The Spider. "About as bad as I want to see him," said The Spider. "You haven't been in town for quite a while, Jim." "No. Fifteen years, I reckon." "You don't change much."
Gridley says he was going by and he says I called him in and told him, fool-wise, all the things I was going to do to Mr. Lidgerwood. He says he hushed me up, called me out to the sidewalk, and started me home. Mac, I don't remember a single wheel-turn of all that, and it makes me scary about the other part." McCloskey relapsed into his swing-chair.
Meet Lidgerwood when he comes and tell him an easy lie about your not being able to hold Grofield for the right-of-way talk." Judson heard the creak and snap of a swing-chair suddenly righted, and the floor dust jarred through the cracks upon him when the mine-owner sprang to his feet. "Call it off and let you drop out of it? Not by a thousand miles, my cautious friend!
His hair, which had turned white early, had a tendency to grow in a bang; his arms were short so short that when he put his hands on the arms of his swing-chair he hardly bent his elbows. He had them there now as Pete entered, and was swinging through short arcs in rather a nervous rhythm. He was of Irish parentage, and was understood to have political influence.
"No more, I'm beginning to suspect," says he, "than the Corrugated needs you." Which was some happy josh for an amateur private sec to get from the boss! Eh? Say, I expected that after I got to be a salaried man, with a swing-chair in Mr. Robert's private office, I'd be called on only to pull the brainy stuff, calm and dignified, without any outside chasin' around.
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