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"As to whether we can keep that," said Josie, "we are not discussing now; but there are some other things we should like cleared up." "We don't understand Mr. Cornish's offer to take the property and pay the debts," said Mrs. Trescott. Jim's glance sought mine in a momentary and questioning astonishment; then he calmly returned the widow's look.
Now, Miss Thurwell, we have had some very delicate and very difficult business confided to us at different times, and I may say, without boasting, that we have been remarkably successful. I may so, father, may I not?" "Most decidedly, Benjamin. There was Mr. Morris's jewels, you know." "And Mr. Hadson's son." "And that little affair with Captain Trescott and Bella B " Mr.
So he followed him into the hall, and down the hall to the door, and through the door to the porch, barking in fiery rage from a respectful distance. As Trescott imperturbably turned the mare's head down the road, Winter stood on the porch, still yelping. He was like a little dog. "Have you heard the news?" cried Carrie Dungen as she sped towards Martha's kitchen. "Have you heard the news?"
"Yahs," said Cecil, using the locution which he always adopted when something subtle was said to him, "I dare say! I dare say!" "Well, then," Jim went on, "I have this matter of the atmosphere or associations under my own control." "Just so," said Cecil. "Clever conceit, Miss Trescott, isn't it, now?"
I expect to see you at breakfast; but if I shouldn't, Al, you'll come aboard at nine, won't you, and help run up the Jolly Roger? I think I smell pieces-of-eight in the air! And, by the way, Miss Trescott says for me to assure you that her vertigo, which she had for the first time in her life, is gone, and she never felt better." As Mr.
If you don't get along, I want you to let me know as soon as possible, and then we will do what we can to make it better." The dark figure at the doctor's side answered with a cheerful laugh. "These buggy wheels don' look like I washed 'em yesterday, docteh," he said. Trescott hesitated for a moment, and then went on insistently, "I am taking you to Alek Williams, Henry, and I "
"Well," said Alice, "from the standpoint of most men, Miss Hinckley isn't to be left out of the reckoning in such matters. What a face and figure she has! Miss Addison is too prudish and churchified; but I like Miss Hinckley." "Yes," said I; "but Miss Trescott seems, somehow, to have been known to one, in some tender and touching relation.
When they halted at the door and Trescott was climbing out, Williams cried, "Will she stand, docteh?" "She'll stand all right, but you better hold her for a minute. Now, Henry." The doctor turned and held both arms to the dark figure. It crawled to him painfully like a man going down a ladder.
At dinner, and away from the magic of the unwinking eye, the judge said, suddenly, "Trescott, do you think it is " As Trescott paused expectantly, the judge fingered his knife. He said, thoughtfully, "No one wants to advance such ideas, but somehow I think that that poor fellow ought to die."
I asked myself if the atmosphere in which she had been reared had not in some degree contributed to the attitude of Antonia toward the expression to me of her regard for Jim. So the Trescott estate matter was arranged. In a few days the boom was strengthened by newspaper stories of the purchase, by heavy financial interests, of the entire list of assets in the hands of the administrator.
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