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Calvin, who had watched over more than one generation of Bannister girls, and knew what was expected of them, made a worried protest. "Hit's gwine rain, Miss Becky." Dalton dismissed him with a wave of the hand. "I won't let her get wet," he lifted Becky from the surrey and walked with her to his car.
He would have given much to retire, for the old man was one of the few people who inspired in him anything resembling fear. But he could not return tamely to the studio with his mission unaccomplished. "Say, ask him if he can see me for a minute. Say it is important." Keggs' eye rested on William Bannister, and he shook his head. "I shouldn't, Mr. Dingle. Really I shouldn't.
His head was going around now like a merry-go-round, but he steadied himself by the bannister: "Why, what do you mean?" asked the lady descending a step or two, a vision of marcelled white hair, violet and lace negligee, and well preserved features, "You've got them there? Let me see them."
This touched Ralph, and he did not wish that Miss Bannister should suppose that he thought so little of a gift of which she thought so much. And in order to entirely remove any suspicion of ungratefulness, he endeavored to make her understand that he had wished very much to go to see the dog, but wished much more to go to see her.
When he found himself confronting Mrs. Porter he became momentarily incapable of speech. It had not entered his mind that she would pay him a second visit. Possibly it was joy that rendered him dumb. "Good afternoon, Mr. Winfield," said Mrs. Porter. "I have come to inquire after the man Pennicut. Ruth, this is Mr. Winfield. Mr. Winfield, my niece, Miss Bannister."
But when you read it in the spirit with which such playful selections and specious combinations rather than strict metaphrases of nature should be taken, or when you saw Bannister play it, it neither did, nor does wound the moral sense at all.
The evening was well along when Dr. Harpe laid her hand upon the unpainted railing which served as a bannister and turned to look once more at the roomful of hot, ecstatically happy dancers before she went upstairs. "Harpe," she murmured, and her eyes narrowed, "Harpe, we're going to make good here. We're going to win out. We're going to make money hand over fist."
"We are the only one of the old families who are eating lunch out of a basket," said Caroline Paine; "next year we shall have to go to the Country Club with the rest of them." "I shall never go to the Country Club," said Judge Bannister, "as long as there is a nigger to fry chicken for me." "We may have to swim with the tide." "Don't tell me that you'd rather be up there than here, Caroline."
Bannister!" he exclaimed. "Any relation to Mr. John Bannister, the millionaire?" Bailey favoured him with a scrutiny through the gold-rimmed glasses which would have frozen his very spine. "My father's name is ah John, and he is a millionaire." Percy met the scrutiny with a suave smile. "By Jove!" he said. "I know your sister quite well, Mr. Bannister.
Its sides, which were almost as perpendicular as those of a well, presented numerous projections which doubtless would assist our descent. It was a sort of wild and savage staircase, without bannister or fence. A rope fastened above, near the surface, would certainly support our weight and enable us to reach the bottom, but how, when we had arrived at its utmost depth, were we to loosen it above?
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