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He paused, and as the clacking stopped a woman who had been reading a novel on the veranda rose up noiselessly and listened over the railing. The new typist was really quite deaf one could hear every word that was said. She was pretty, too, and well, she dressed too well, for one thing. But McBain was not making love to his typist.
"Why, our excellent little secretary and typist our Miss Gibbs our Antonia, known at home as Toni!" Barry's boyish face flushed crimson, and for a second he looked so angry that Owen stared in genuine amazement. "Well, Barry, what's up? I assure you my intentions are strictly honourable!
She was of an engaging innocence in this respect; so that typing authors' manuscripts appealed to her as a vocation that combined one of the highest forms of cerebral activity with I don't know what glamour of romantic adventure. Her enthusiasm, her veneration for the written word made her an admirable typist. But not all at once.
"You may be quite sure, Countess, that I shall dismiss Mr. Poopendyke the instant you apply for his job." "And I shall most cheerfully abdicate," said he. Silly ass! I couldn't help thinking how infinitely more attractive and perilous she would be as a typist than the excellent young woman who had married the jeweller's clerk, and what an improvement on Poopendyke!
Burton instinctively sensed this, and that is why he disapproved of my asking her to lunch If she had been an ordinary typist Burton would not have objected in the least, as I said before, Burton knows the world! Now what is to be done next?
I said I did; I knew the minute she came into the room. And she faced me with, "Well then, you see!" as if that settled it. I suppose it did settle it. I must have decided that since nobody could stop her, and I wasn't, after all, a villain, if she insisted on being somebody's typist, she had very much better be mine. You see, she was so young. I wanted to protect her.
No sentiment shows in his face, no emotion sounds in his voice. He is pure mind, a practical mind taut with attention. If he have occasion in these moments to ring the bell for an adjutant or a colonel, that official is addressed with the brevity and directness of a manager giving an order to his typist.
That kind of boy could not remain for long a typist in the office of a discerning man like Louis. Perhaps certain idiosyncrasies of spelling and a certain originality of execution on the machine helped bring about a change of duties. But chiefly it was because of a better reason.
And behind her too-sweet smile there was another motive her woman's curiosity was piqued. Not only did this deaf girl, this ordinary typist, hold the fate of her husband in her hand, but she could, if she wished, marry Rimrock Jones himself and become the wife of a millionaire. And yet she did not do it. This was out of the ordinary, even in Mrs.
She had gone into an office as typist instead of being in service like the other sisters, and thought herself too fine for those who wanted her, but was not fine enough for those she wanted.
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