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He threw away his cigarette half-smoked, with a free gesture that seemed to imply that he was capable of parting with a hundred pounds just as easily. "How did she get the option?" Edward Henry inquired, putting into the query all the innuendo of a man accustomed to look at great worldly affairs from the inside. "How did she get it? She got it from the late Lord Woldo.
And when a really great strike came, and a dozen ex-artisans met in a private room of a West End hotel, and decided, without consulting Lord Woldo or the Prime Minister or anybody, that the commerce of the country should be brought to a standstill, these thoughtful students perceived that even Lord Woldo's situation was no more secure than other people's; in fact that it was rather less so.
The system, most agreeable for Lord Woldo and about a dozen other landlords in London, was called the leasehold system; and when Lord Woldo became the proprietor of some bricks and mortar that had cost him nothing, it was said that one of Lord Woldo's leases had "fallen in," and everybody was quite satisfied by this phrase.
And supposing I lost, after all?... You never know. There's a much easier way than going to law," "What is it?" "As I say you exert your influence, Lady Woldo. Write and tell them I've seen you and you insist " "Eh! Bless you! They'd twist me round their little finger. I'm not a fool, but I'm not very clever I know that.
Nellie, even when he could only see her face and that in a mirror! was the most real phenomenon in his existence, and she possessed the strange faculty of dispelling all unreality round about her. "Well," he said, "how did you get on in the box?" "Oh!" she replied, "I got on very well with the Woldo woman. She's one of our sort. But I'm not so set up with your Elsie April." "Dash this collar!"
In the provinces, besides castles, forests and moors, Lord Woldo owned many acres of land under which was coal, and he allowed enterprising persons to dig deep for this coal, and often explode themselves to death in the adventure, on the understanding that they paid him sixpence for every ton of coal brought to the surface, whether they made any profit on it or not.
Wrissell is what I call a gentleman. You know he was Lord Woldo's heir. And when Lord Woldo married me it was a bit of a blow for him! But he took it like a lamb. He never turned a hair, and he was more polite than any of them. I daresay you know Lord Woldo saw me in a musical comedy at Scarborough he has a place near there, ye know. Mr.
Wrissell and the Woldo family say about that, do you think?" asked Edward Henry. "Lady Woldo will never be allowed to carry it out," said Mr. Slosson. "Who's going to stop her? She must carry it out. She wants to carry it out. She's dying to carry it out. Moreover, I shall communicate it to the papers to-night unless you and I come to an arrangement.
This arrangement was called "mining rights," another phrase that apparently satisfied everybody. It might be thought that Lord Woldo was, as they say, on velvet. But the velvet, if it could be so described, was not of so rich and comfortable a pile after all. For Lord Woldo's situation involved many and heavy responsibilities and was surrounded by grave dangers.
The document was a contract made between Blanche Lady Woldo of the one part and Edward Henry Machin of the other part, whereby Blanche Lady Woldo undertook to appear in musical comedy at any West End Theatre to be named by Edward Henry, at a salary of two hundred pounds a week for a period of six months. "You've not got a theatre," said Mr. Slosson.
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