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They are all dead out here embalmed, some of them but dead." Jack always remembered the interview. That Garry should help along anything that he took an interest in was quite in the line of his ambition and ability. Minott was as "smart as a steel trap," Holker Morris had always said of him, "and a wonderful fellow among the men.
Lagarge, his companion a thin, cadaverous-looking man with a big head and the general air of having been carved out of an old root a great expert in ceramics listening intently, bobbing his head in toy-mandarin fashion whenever one of Holker's iconoclasms cleared the air. "Suppose they did pay thirty thousand dollars for it," Holker insisted, slapping his knee with his outspread palm.
"And you found him?" "Damn it! he found ME. The rascal got the drop on me regularly held me up and made me travel. It's God's mercy that he didn't go through me. Oh, he's a good one, and I fancy the half of that reward is enough for me if you're needy." Holker laughed good humoredly, and explained that his creditors were never more importunate.
Truelove's case, but the Tory Attorney-General, Sir John Holker, refused it, although the ground on which it was asked was one of the grounds on which a similar writ had been granted to Mr. Bradlaugh and myself. Mr.
"There, now, Holker," she said with a smile as she laid her hand on his coat sleeve "not another word. Tunnels are things everybody wants to get through with as quick as possible and I'm not going to spend all night in yours awful damp places full of smoke No not another word.
"Isn't it glorious, Holker!" he cried joyously, with uplifted hands. "Oh, I'm so glad I came! I wouldn't have missed this for anything in the world. Did you ever see anything like it? This is classic, my boy it has the tang and the spice of the ancients." Morris's greeting to me was none the less hearty, although he had left me but half an hour before.
Within a week after the funeral a committee was appointed to gather funds for the placing of a stained-glass window in the new church in memory of the young architect who had designed and erected it; with the result that Holker Morris headed the subscription list, an example which was followed by many of the townspeople, including McGowan and Murphy and several others of their class, as well as various members of the Village Council, together with many of Garry's friends in New York, all of which was duly set forth in the county and New York papers; a fact which so impressed the head of the great banking firm of Arthur Breen & Co. that he immediately sent his personal check for a considerable amount, desiring, as he stated at a club dinner that same night, to pay some slight tribute to that brilliant young fellow, Minott, who, you know, married Mrs.
"Ah, caught you both!" he cried, all out of breath with his run upstairs, his hat still on his head. "Into your coats, you two we haven't a moment to spare. You got my letter, of course," he added, throwing back the cape of his raincoat. "Yes, Holker, just opened it!" cried Peter, holding out both hands to his guest. "But I'm not going.
What an extraordinary man... He's going to give a dinner, he says, to his draughtsmen... in his offices at the top of his new building, six stories up. Does the rascal think I have nothing to do but crawl up his stairs? Here, I'll read it to you." "'You, dear Peter: That's just like Holker! He begins that way when he wants me to do something for him.
The 'Digest, indeed, only required to be recast to be converted into a code. The measure was ready in June and was introduced into Parliament by Sir John Holker in the session of 1878. It was received favourably, and he reports that the Chancellor and the Solicitor-General, as well as the Attorney-General, have become 'enthusiastic' in their approbation.
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