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"Curiosity is a natural, but only an incidental, consequence in this case. I have no reason for desiring that it should be an unpleasant consequence to you." "Well, sir," said Williams, "you think that Arthur Mervyn has no remedy in this case but the law?" "Mrs. Maurice, to-be-sure, will never pay but on compulsion. Mervyn should have known his own interest better.
To-be-sure, I aint rich yet, though I've got enough to keep me I reckon. I handle a little real estate, get some rent from my buildin's, and loan a little money now and then. But you bet I've worked for every cent I've got, and I didn't fool none of it away either, 'cept what went up in smoke." The old gentleman's voice sank lower and lower as he recalled the years that had flown.
"I would not go till he downed with the stuff." "No!" "Why, so it is. Who the devil is she?" "Don't you know her? She's his sister. A devilish rich girl." "But how? does she lend him money?" "Yes, to-be-sure. She's his sister, you know." "But how does she get money? Is she a widow?" "No. She is a girl, I've heard, not eighteen.
Quit smokin' about a month ago. Wife, she wanted me to. To-be-sure, I don't care nothin' fer it nohow. Mighty mean habit too. Where's your pipe?" Dick smiled. "Oh, I haven't any now." "Uh! took to smokin' segars, I reckon." "No," said Dick, "I don't smoke at all." "Oh." Uncle Bobbie looked long and thoughtfully at his young friend. "To-be-sure, I don't, much.
An' then go fer the citizens and see how many will buy kindlin'-wood. Tell 'em about what it will cost say ten cents a week fer one stove. To-be-sure, some will use more'n others, but give 'em an ide'. Then we'll all come together again and swap reports, an' see what we've got."
"Is that the way men do business in Boyd City?" "Well, ye kin laugh if you want to, but that's 'bout th' best security a feller can have in th' long run. Anyhow, it's good 'nough fer me. I'll lend you a hundred fer a year. To-be-sure," he added hastily, as he saw Dick's face, "You'll have to pay me th' same interest I can git from the other fellers.
"I don't reckon that there's much danger of Brother Hartzel's amendment goin' through, but I just want a word anyhow. To-be-sure, you all know me, and that I'm a pretty good friend to preachers." The audience laughed. "I aint got a thing in the world agin 'em.
"To love her as a woman, then, appears to you an act of folly." "In me it would be worse than folly. 'Twould be frenzy." "And why?" "Why? Really, my friend, you astonish me. Nay, you startle me for a question like that implies a doubt in you whether I have not actually harboured the thought." "No," said he, smiling, "presumptuous though you be, you have not, to-be-sure, reached so high a pitch.
I expect a friend of mine every minute who will look them over. I don't doubt you can give a good account of yourself." "I doubt not but I can to those who have a right to demand it. In this case, curiosity must be very urgent indeed before I shall consent to gratify it." "You must know this is a suspicious case. Watson, to-be-sure, embezzled the money; to-be-sure, you are his accomplice."
"To-be-sure," he said at last, carefully placing his umbrella in a corner near the door, and as carefully removing his coat and hat; "To-be-sure, I quit smokin' sometime ago 'bout a month, I reckon used to smoke pretty nigh all the time, but wife she wanted me to quit I don't know as there is any use in it." A long pause followed, as he drew a chair to the stove and seated himself.
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