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The last time Selina went for him tooth and nail; smashed all the plates off the dresser throwing 'em at him, and ended by chasing of him up the road in his shirt-sleeves." The captain grunted. "That was two years ago," continued Mr. Tasker; "and his spirit's quite broke. He 'as to give all his money except a shilling a week to his wife, and he's not allowed to go into pubs.
The total receipts for the entire period were $57,197,140.80, and the expenditures $55,405,031.28. The customs service, which furnished the principal part of the revenues during the period of military occupation, was ably administered by General Tasker H. Bliss.
It had nothing to do with him, he said, and he washed his hands of it a conclusion highly satisfactory to Miss Vickers, who had feared that she would have had to have dropped for a time her visits to Mr. Tasker. A slight change in the household occurring at this time helped to divert the captain's thoughts. Mr.
Vickers, with a sigh. "What is?" inquired the other, who had not been listening. The half-choking Mr. Vickers explained. "Yes, o' course it is," assented Mr. Tasker. "People what's got money," said the offended Mr. Vickers, regarding him fiercely, "stick to it like leeches.
This reminded me of Tasker, and set me wondering whether he had been as fortunate as myself, or whether that last awful lurch had been as fatal to him as it had been to some others among us.
He sat sucking at his cold pipe and indulging in hopeless conjectures as to the source of so much wealth, and, with a sudden quickening of the pulse, wondered whether it had all been spent. His mind wandered from Selina to Mr. Joseph Tasker, and almost imperceptibly the absurdities of which young men in love could be capable occurred to him.
Vickers a strong sense of the absurdity of his request. "I asked you a question," said the latter gentleman, glaring at him. "I haven't got a couple o' pounds," replied Mr. Tasker; "and if I 'ad, there's nine hundred and ninety-nine things I would sooner do with it than lend it to you." Mr. Vickers rose and stood regarding the ignoble creature with profound contempt.
Tasker was busy making up the fire "I s'pose Selina didn't tell you you wasn't to tell me about the money?" "I don't know what you're driving at," said the other, confronting him angrily. "I haven't got no money." Mr. Vickers coughed. "Don't say that, Joseph," he urged, softly; "don't say that, my lad.
You know how, when one has once begun to be a little naughty, everything that happens seems to increase the feeling, and so it was with Bridget; everything Miss Tasker said, or did, or even looked after this, made her feel more and more ill-used and injured, till one unfortunate day brought matters to a climax.
"I suppose I can believe my own ears?" he said, in an injured voice. "He must have been making fun of them all," said Selina. "He couldn't have burnt it he couldn't." "Why not?" inquired the other, surprised at her vehemence. Miss Vickers hesitated. "Because it would be such a silly thing to do," she said, at last. "Now, tell me what you heard all over again slow." Mr. Tasker complied.
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