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Updated: May 10, 2025
To understand his words, now, it would have been necessary for her to be aware of the net spread for him by Irons, the struggle in his mind as he talked with Miss Wainwright, and the effort he was now making to bring himself up to the firmness needed for the important interview with Mr. Hubbard which lay before him.
It was an order to search the quarters of Lieutenant Wainwright and bring all papers, letters, and documents to him. He then beckoned one of the detail towards him. "Take that to the provost marshal at once. Well, Captain," he added calmly, as the officer again approached him, "what do you find?" "Only this, sir," returned the captain, with a half smile, producing a small photograph.
" Take these people home, will you ? Or at any rate, conduct them out of the field of my responsibility. Now, they would like Italy immensely, I am sure." Coleman laughed, and they smoked for a time. " That's a charming girl-Miss Wainwright," said the minister, musingly. "And what a beauty! It does my exiled eyes good to see her.
Wainwright for that was his real name was so brilliant, he made friends for a time among many of the first-class contributors to that once famous periodical; but the Ten Commandments ruined all his prospects for life.
"'Anything in it? I asks. "'The satisfaction, says he, 'of redeeming a country of two hundred thousand population from ruin back to prosperity and peace. "'Great, says I. 'I'll go with you. I'd prefer to eat a live broiled lobster just now; but give me liberty as second choice if I can't be in at the death. "Wainwright and me permeates through the town, and he halts at a rum-dispensary.
When the professor had returned to what he called the Wainwright part of the house he was greeted instantly with the question: "What was it?" His wife and daughter were up in alarm. "What was it " they repeated, wildly. He was peevish. " Oh, nothing, nothing. But that young Coke is a regular ruffian. He had gotten him. self into some tremendous uproar with Coleman.
It wasn't so in my girlhood. We were obliged to pay attention to our mothers wishes." " I did not notice that you paid much attention to your mother's wishes when you married me," remarked the professor. " In fact, I thought-" " That was another thing," retorted Mrs. Wainwright with severity.
Wainwright was standing before her mirror with her elbows thrust out at angles above her head, while her fingers moved in a disarrangement of 'her hair. In the glass she saw a reflection of her husband coming from Marjory's room, and his face was set with some kind of alarming purpose.
"'Might I suggest another rum? says Wainwright. "'Cigar for me darker brand, says I. "Well, sir, the president sent me and Wainwright back to the town in a victoria hitched to two flea-bitten selling-platers but the best the country afforded. "I found out afterward that Wainwright was a regular beachcomber the smartest man on the whole coast, but kept down by rum. I liked him.
However, she said no word, exhibiting again that strange and, inscrutable countenance which masked even the tiniest of her maidenly emotions. Mrs. Wainwright was triumphant, and she immediately set about celebrating her victory. " Men never see those things," she said to her husband. " Men never see those things.
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