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I just don't want you pestering me any more with your complaints. I've stood a lot for Miss Tremont's sake she probably wouldn't like to see anything happen to you. But just a few more little remarks like you made before lunch, and you're apt to find yourself standing in mud up to your knees in one of these mud holes wrong end up! And that wouldn't be becoming at all for an American millionaire."
Tremont's that she had met Lennox Sanderson, and from the first, both seemed to be under the influence of some subtle spell that drew them together blindly, and without the consent of their wills. Mrs. Tremont, who viewed the growing attraction of these two young people with well-concealed alarm, watched every opportunity to prevent their enjoying each other's society.
Brought up before the magistrate, I was confronted with the blackguard and five other rascals of his stamp, who positively took their oaths that they had seen me taking the pocket-book of the general, which he had left accidentally upon the table in the bar of Tremont's.
"Both combined," I tried to say pleasantly, "as on this occasion. I am at Mr. Tremont's service;" and I threaded my tapestry-needle. Without a prefatory word he began: "Years before your young heart was awakened to 'the sweetest joy, the wildest woe, I loved." "And single yet!"
Tennent Tremont's nerves were in a sound state or not, I was determined to practice until twelve. But when he came in from the library and assisted me in opening the instrument, I was obliged to ask him what he would have. They were my first direct words to him, our three weeks' guest. "Oh, 'Summer Night' is a favorite," he said.
After that, his conscience did not trouble him. The work on account of which he excused himself from Langdon's society, was apparently not of the most pressing order, for Sanderson almost immediately started for Boston, turning his steps towards Mrs. Standish Tremont's. "Mrs. Tremont was not at home," the man announced at the door, "and Mrs. Endicott was confined to her room with a bad headache.
I warned him not to speculate in the rash way he was accustomed to doing, but he would never take my advice. If he had, we would not be as we are now." And again the poor lady was overcome with her own sorrows. It was not Mrs. Tremont's check that had bought the last Kumyss. In fact, Mrs. Tremont, after the manner of rich relations, troubled her head but little about her poor ones.
Trémont's deserted except by children and invalids. All in Paris, monsieur. Ay, these be hard times for some of us." "I'm for Paris, but must rest here to-night." "You're welcome, monsieur, and we'll do our best, but it's poor fare you'll get and that not cheap." "Are there no travelers in the house?" "None; none for these two months." "No visitor of any kind?" "None.
I want you to tell these understrappers of yours to take that squaw and clear out of Clearwater. Tell 'em to take her back where she belongs to Buckshot Dan. He'll take her in, all right. I've been working in Miss Tremont's interests until now now I'm working in my own. This happens to be my trapping country.
The first thing on the program is a bath." Harold flushed: the red glow was evident even through the sooty accumulation on his face. "It seems to me you're going a little outside your authority as Miss Tremont's representative. I don't know that I need to have any hillbilly tell me when I need a bath." "Yes?" Bill's eyes twinkled for the first time during their talk.
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