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Marcus indulged in the same habit to some extent, and, when he saw Patching looking at him without a nod or a word, he also was blank and speechless. "Don't you remember each other?" said Tiffles. "Mr. Patching. Mr. Marcus Wilkeson." The gentlemen shook hands, and said: "Oh, yes! How do you do? It is a fine morning. Very."
His host, observing this casual glance, much to the guest's mortification, rose, and placed the screens close together at right angles, thus shutting out a view of the corner. Mr. Minford opened his lips as if to offer some explanation of the act, but did not offer it. A moment afterward, he said: "I have not always been a poor man, Mr. Wilkeson.
I feared, my dear father, after what had occurred, that you could not bear the sight of me. Therefore I kept away from your bedside." "That is a lame excuse, Myndert," replied the father. He spoke in a voice intended to be audible to Marcus Wilkeson. A gleam in the son's sunken eyes, and a new pallor on his bloated cheeks, indicated his displeasure at the turn which this conversation was taking.
The pleasure which he took in manipulating the public, and seeing his labors crowned with success, was the only reward that he wished for. Marcus Wilkeson, however, as soon as he saw that Tiffles was actually about to perform the amazing feat of raising money, determined, as an act of common justice, to insist upon his receiving twenty per cent. of the total.
True Art never thinks of the expense." "It always seemed to me to be the easiest school of Art," said Marcus Wilkeson. "I suppose, now, that you can dash off twenty or thirty rods of this a day." Patching smiled with a lofty pity. "So I can. Not because it is the easiest, though far from it; but because I happen to have a genius for quick and sure touches.
Frump ran in, red in the face, and quite out of breath. "Excuse me, sir. I am Mrs. Frump, Mr. Van Quintem's niece." "I am Mr. Wilkeson, a friend of Mr. Van Quintem," said Marcus, hastily introducing himself; "and I am glad you are come." "Yes, I see. Fainted away. Revive in a moment. Fresh air. Cordial, Quite right. Now a little water on his forehead." Mrs.
How could he, then, venture to disclose it to another? It was the suppression of this immature motive, that brought back that look of deceit and guilt to Marcus Wilkeson's ingenuous face. This unfortunate physiognomical revelation was not lost upon the keen eyes of the inventor. But he said: "Mr. Wilkeson, let us not say another word on this ridiculous subject.
"The great point is to save time. For certain reasons, as I said before, you have none to lose in educating my daughter. And, that we may not detain her a moment, Mr. Wilkeson, we will leave, if you please." Marcus Wilkeson was glad to do this, for the conversation had already reached its natural terminus. He therefore followed Mr. Minford's motion, and grasped his hat and cane.
She had only strength to shriek, "Murder! murder! Help! help!" and then she fell headlong and senseless upon her father's dead body. Be it said to the credit of Wesley Tiffles, that he always paid bills promptly when he could borrow money to do it. The funds that he had raised from Marcus Wilkeson, and others, for the panorama, had been faithfully applied to that great object.
Wilkeson took the liberty of suggesting that it might be possible to borrow one, at a moderate rate, by the month, and set it up in their front room. Miss Pillbody applauded this idea, and it was instantly agreed to. "For certain reasons, which I will not now mention," said Mr. Minford, "I am anxious to hurry up her education." "By the way, what is your first name, my dear?" asked Miss Pillbody.
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