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That failure was the removal of its last prop; it fell, and Timms retired, as we have seen, into the commercial background. Here, however, he did not find relief. Being a trustful man he was cheated until he became untrustful. His wife became ill owing to bad air and low diet.
And never a question." The two looked at each other and Desire saw her own doubt plainly reflected upon the honest gaze of Robert Timms. "I'll go in," she said. "The doctor will take me home." In the invalid's room there was only quietness. Miss Martin sat in her chair by the window; her plain, thin face had not sought to turn from the searching light.
I come quiet, didn't I? All the same for that, we 'adn't ought to take up your time this way, sir; but if it so 'appened you could find time to step round to the Company orfice in the morning and tell Mr Timms what you seen for yourself, we should lay under a very 'igh obligation to you for the trouble.
He had the men in they were the conductor and driver of the car and when the matter of refreshment had been attended to, asked what Mr Timms had had to say about the advertisement. 'Well, sir, that's what we took the liberty to step round about, said the conductor.
"Well, then," continued her father, "what, in these circumstances, says common sense?" Aileen's mouth became grave again, and her eyes very earnest as she said quickly "Pay off the green-grocer!" Mr Hazlit nodded approval. "You are right. Mr Timms' account amounts to twenty pounds. To offer twenty pounds to Mr Granby to whom I owe some eight thousand, more or less would be a poor practical joke.
Sunday, February the 12th, 1726. Robert Haynes The Lives of THOMAS TIMMS, THOMAS PERRY, and EDWARD BROWN, Footpads This poor unhappy man, Thomas Timms, was the son of mean parents in the country and as indifferently educated as he was born, so that his future ill-deeds were capable of some little extenuation.
Mrs Timms went away deeply impressed with Miss Pritty's thoughtful kindness, and the small domestic, shutting the door, indulged in a fit of that species of suppressed laughter which is usually indicated by a series of spurts through the top of the nose and the compressed lips. She was suddenly interrupted by a tap at the knocker.
Barlow's salary another year," the hostess added; "a good many of the old parishioners have died off, but every one feels to do what they can. Is there much interest among the young people in Woodville, Mis' Flagg?" "Considerable at this time, ma'am," answered Mrs. Flagg, without enthusiasm, and she listened with unusual silence to the subsequent fluent remarks of Mrs. Timms.
"Well; no man writes his signature twice alike. There is not one chance in a million that he will do so, without definitely attempting to do so, and then he will be obliged to use certain appliances to guide him." "Now will you apply the same test to the other signature?" Prof. Timms went carefully to work again with his measure.
And as I said these words to myself I made a rapid writing of both papers and with them asked admittance to the room of that false Gouverneur Faulkner, who had just dismissed the good men who had come to thank him for his mercy shown to that poor creature Timms. "Walk right in, sir," said old Cato to me as he gave a low bow of very great courtesy.
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