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"I presume Nathaniel will be very angry, and he may say that I am responsible, as he did in Quincy's case. I did help Quincy and Alice and I am going to help Maude and Harry. I am going to allow them five thousand a year and Alice gives them the free use of the Mount Vernon Street house. She has written Nathaniel about Mr. Merry taking Dr. Culver's place as one of Quincy's executors.
The first paper Culver handed him was a cipher telegram announcing the closing of an agreement which made the National Woolens Company absolute in the Northwest; the second item in Culver's budget was also a cipher telegram from Merriweather. It had been filed at four o'clock several hours later than the newspaper despatches.
And in his wake went the official most envied by all the others. With a horse's nose-bag upon his arm my namesake chanted in pleading tones above the din, "Peanuts freshly buttered popcorn Culver's celebrated double-X cough drops, cool and refreshing!" But the tragic eminence of the game was occupied by my woman child.
He interviewed Lawrence, the Government representative, since Culver's removal from the scene. Lawrence was prepared for the visit. He expressed his regrets at the flight Van's fortunes had taken. Bostwick had come, he said, with authority from Washington, ordering the new survey.
"I have no brother." Mrs. Hargrave stared at her guest. "Are you not Lucius Culver's youngest child?" she questioned. "The Lee County Culvers?" "No, Mrs. Hargrave," said Helen. "I am John Culver's daughter." "Another family," said Mrs. Hargrave and changed the subject politely by asking Rosanna what she had heard from her grandmother. Helen sat thinking.
Last and best, he is the most adorable man I ever saw at a house-party. He's an angel at breakfast, sings perfectly beautifully you know he was on the Stanford Glee Club " "Humph!" Jack was unimpressed. "If you roped him for Helen Blake to brand, why have you sent for Wally Speed?" "Well, you see, Berkeley and Helen didn't quite hit it off, and Mr. Speed is a friend of Culver's."
"I shall tell only the truth in that case," said Sackett, but with resignation he was beginning to believe that for his extraordinary patient extraordinary remedies might be best. Dumont listened to Culver's report without interrupting him once. Culver's position had theretofore been most disadvantageous to himself. He had been too near to Dumont, had been merged in Dumont's big personality.
I do not know when Culver's root, Leptandra Virginica of our National Pharmacopoeia, became noted, but Cotton Mather, writing in 1716 to John Winthrop of New London, speaks of it as famous for the cure of consumptions, and wishes to get some of it, through his mediation, for Katharine, his eldest daughter.
See him ask him no, telephone Tavistock to come at once and you find out all you can independently especially about the Fanning-Smiths and Great Lakes and Gulf." "Very well," said Culver. "A great deal depends on your success," continued Dumont "a great deal for me, a great deal a VERY great deal for you." His look met Culver's and each seemed satisfied with what he saw.
That's what I have come up to ask you to do." "That," said the judge, setting his teeth and breathing hard, "is the most monstrous piece of impudence I have ever heard of. On his part as well as yours. What have I to do with John Culver's waitresses?" He wasn't expecting an answer to this question, but Rose had one ready for him.
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