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I wish that I could express it better" she broke off suddenly "and very likely I'm boring you but when your whole soul is full of a thing it will overflow." She smiled upon Norcross, as though for sympathy. If he gave it, his face did not betray him. "Then you say," returned Norcross with one of his characteristic shifts to childlike abruptness, "that you never faked?" Mrs.
Norcross can go." "That won't do," retorted McFarlane, quickly. "That won't do at all. You must go with them. I can take care of myself. I will not have you dragged into this muck-hole. We've got to think quick and act quick. There won't be any delay about their side of the game. I don't think they'll do anything to-day; but you've got to fade out of the valley.
Of the co-partners Symonds, King, and John Hill were dead; Norcross and Child had gone to England; Cowdall had sold his rights to Prescott; Chandler, Davis, Walker, and others had formally abandoned their claims; Garrett, Shawe, Day, Adams, and perhaps two or three others, retained their claims to allotments, making no improvements, and contributing nothing by their presence or tithes to the growth of the settlement, thus becoming effectual stumbling blocks in the way of progress.
You've no call to get wire-edged about Mr. Norcross. He's not very strong. He's just getting well of a long sickness. I knew a chill would finish him, that's why I gave him my slicker. It didn't hurt me, and maybe it saved his life. I'd do it again if necessary." "Since when did you start a hospital for Eastern tenderfeet?" he sneered; then his tone changed to one of downright command.
"It was a good joke," said the colonel, "but I'm sure you will take it good-naturedly." "Yes," said Mr. Norcross, the banker. "It's quite a favorite amusement out here." Only the New Yorker said nothing, but gave Ted a peculiar glance. Ted looked around at the group with a foolish smile. "It was a good joke, gentlemen," said he, "and I have never been sore because I have been handed one."
Blake, still dropping soft love pats on Annette's hair and shoulders, looked into the eyes of the railroad king. "I have earned that opinion, I suppose," he said. "I can't say that I feel myself greatly superior to to anyone here tonight. But I've done what I started to do. My name is Blake, Mr. Norcross Dr.
Thenceforth until some other robber baron should wrest it from his hands Norcross would make laws and unmake legislatures, dictate judgments and overrule appointments give the high justice while courts and assemblies trifled with the middle and the low. Certainly the history of that year in American finance indicated no flagging in the powers of Robert H. Norcross.
Norcross ain't used to rough ways, and he's not very rugged, you ought 'o kind o' favor him for a while." The girl herself did not understand the vital and almost painful interest which this young man had roused in her. He was both child and poet to her, and as she watched him trying to make friends with the men, her indignation rose against their clownish offishness.
He had perfect faith in his daughter's purity and honesty, and he liked and trusted Norcross, and yet he knew that should Belden find it to his advantage to slander these young people, and to read into their action the lawlessness of his own youth, Berea's reputation, high as it was, would suffer, and her mother's heart be rent with anxiety.
"Oh no," he protested, "I can't take your coat." "Yes you can! You must! Don't you worry about me, I'm used to weather. Put this on over your jacket and all. You'll need it. Rain won't hurt me; but it will just about finish you." The worst of this lay in its truth, and Norcross lost all his pride of sex for the moment.
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