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I've lost again!" and have watched the flashing eye and heaving breast, they would have felt, even more keenly than they did, how futile were words or sympathies to check the evil. We pass over two years of George Weston's life years full of strange experiences and look into the office in Falcon-court one morning in the summer of 18 . Mr. Compton is away on the Continent for a holiday tour, Mr.
I came to your house in a fit of desperation a little while ago, so shaken by what I had just had to face that I was off my guard. When I told Miss Stirling what I felt for her it was a folly but I did it and I have no excuse to make." Then, to Weston's astonishment, the contractor's manner changed suddenly, and he leaned forward with a smile.
What a write-up all this would make for his paper. "Did you hear what I said?" Weston's voice was somewhat impatient. "I beg your pardon," Reynolds apologized. "My mind was wool-gathering. You asked what led me to suspect the truth about Curly, did you not?" "I did." "Well, apart from yourself, and what I saw in you, there were four things which influenced my judgment.
Mary had slipped from her place to meet him, and in Weston's greeting to her I had my first lesson in what the world calls manner. How clumsy seemed my own excuses for coming at all, compared to his pleasure at finding her at home! He had been looking forward all afternoon to seeing her again.
One thing only was wanting to make the prospect of the ball completely satisfactory to Emma its being fixed for a day within the granted term of Frank Churchill's stay in Surry; for, in spite of Mr. Weston's confidence, she could not think it so very impossible that the Churchills might not allow their nephew to remain a day beyond his fortnight. But this was not judged feasible.
During Weston's five years of office the debt, which had mounted to sixteen hundred thousand pounds, was reduced by one half. On the other hand the annual revenue of the Crown was raised from half-a-million to eight hundred thousand. Nor was there much sign of active discontent.
It depends on how much the man who undertook it wanted back to make the thing worth while." "They are content with food, and sometimes very indifferent shelter, in western Canada." "There," said Ainslie, "you have the thing in a nutshell. You have, no doubt, formed some idea of Weston's wants, which are rather numerous. In fact, some of us seem to consider it the correct thing to cultivate them.
His room was full of books in various languages, and when he wasn't wandering about the valley, he would be sitting reading far into the night sometimes as late as half-past ten. There was a fellow named Goth, who seemed to be Weston's favorite writer.
By night she had the satisfaction of knowing that Weston's offer for the south meadow had been accepted, that the Wallacetown Bank and the insurance money would furnish part of the needed funds, and that she was to be allowed to loan the rest, and that the little brick cottage belonged to her.
My, she's worth riskin' one's neck for. But, say, Dan, what are you doing out here?" "Prospectin', of course. What else would I be doin'?" "Strike anything?" "Not yet, though I've good prospects in sight, 'specially since you've arrived." Seeing the look of surprise in Curly's eyes, Dan laughed. "Yes," he continued, "I'm prospectin' in the same way that you are. I'm after Jim Weston's gal."
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