yawpingham

Updated: May 21, 2025

"I won't hurt Paul," promised Johnny, responding to her smile with a suddenly relieved grin, and, taking Gresham daintily by the coat sleeve with his thumb and forefinger, he led the unresisting cousin of Lord Yawpingham to the front door. Polly opened it for him, and, grabbing Gresham's silk hat, put it hastily askew and hindside before upon his bewildered head.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

"Age is no recommendation for an egg," her husband kindly informed her. "Gresham is second cousin to Lord Yawpingham, and if they had any sense of shame they'd murder each other for the relationship." "Oh, Ben, I'm sure you're harsh," protested the optimistic Mrs. Courtney. "I'm so charitable as to be almost weak," he insisted with a grin. "Seriously; though, Lucy, Gresham's not square.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

Aunt Pattie Boyden swept into the room, and Johnny immediately felt that he had on tight shoes. He had once made a fatal error before Aunt Pattie; he had confessed to having been a voter before he owned a dress suit. Paul Gresham arrived, and Aunt Pattie was as the essence of violets. Paul, though American-born, was a second cousin of Lord Yawpingham.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress

On the evening preceding he called at the house, but Aunt Pattie Boyden, who was more than anxious to have Constance marry the second cousin of Lord Yawpingham, told him with poorly concealed satisfaction that Constance was too ill to see him.

George Randolph Chester - Five Thousand an Hour : how Johnny Gamble won the heiress