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As for Risler, Georges chose to take it upon himself to inform him as to the situation. When he entered his partner's little closet, which was lighted from above by a window in the ceiling, so that the light fell directly upon the subject of the inventor's meditations, Fromont hesitated a moment, filled with shame and remorse for what he was about to do.
Foster knew this was as much as he would admit, but felt that he could trust the man. "Very well. My partner's in some danger, and with Mr. Featherstone's permission I must try to see him through, but may want your help. I suppose you're willing?" "Yes, sir. If it's for Mr. Lawrence, you can take it that I am." "You can drive an automobile pretty well?"
Some one near the front of the store was talking excitedly with Raoul: "An' an' an' w'at are the consequence? The consequence are that we smash his shop for him an' 'e 'ave to make a noo-start with a Creole partner's money an' put 'is sto' in charge of Creole'! If I know he is yo' frien'? Yesseh! Valuable citizen? An' w'at we care for valuable citizen?
If there is a footman, or more than one, the chairs are deftly placed for each guest; but if only a maid is in waiting, each gentleman arranges his own and his partner's chairs as quietly as possible. As soon as the company are seated, each one removes the bread; and the napkin, partially unfolded, is laid across the lap.
Robert Lyon's position in "our firm," with which he identified himself with the natural pride of a man who has diligently worked his way up to fortune, was such that he could not, without sacrificing his future prospects, and likewise what he felt to be a point of honor, refuse to go back to Bombay until such time as his senior partner's son, the young fellow whom he had "coached" in Hindostanee, and nursed through a fever years ago, could conveniently take his place abroad.
You are well started, Andrew. Your father's and his partner's estate will give you an income of $10,000. What will you do?" "I have no idea whatever. My mind is not ready for business. My serious experience has been followed by a sort of stupor an inquiry, a detached relation to everything." "Let it be so awhile," answered the strong, gray-eyed man. "Such rests are often medicine, as sleep is.
"I thought Lord Bearwarden never went to balls," replied the young lady carelessly; but her heart swelled with gratified vanity to think of the attraction that drew him now to every place where he could hear her voice and look upon her beauty. "There he is," was her partner's comment, as his lordship's head appeared in the doorway.
But nothing that Burwell could do or say availed against his friend's decision. There was nothing for it but that Evelyth should buy his partner's share of the business or that Burwell buy out the other. The man was more than fair in the financial proposition he made; he was generous, as he always had been, but his determination was inflexible; the two must separate. And they did.
On her way to lunch she took her letters to the junior partner's room and knocked at his door; but instead of his usual cheery, 'Come in! he came hastily to the door, and, only opening it a few inches, took the letters with a polite 'Thank you. And as she turned away, Stella heard Lord Rothery's hearty laugh, and she understood Mr.
As I watched her, almost reclining in her partner's powerful grasp, her lips moving incessantly, though audibly only to him, as her head leaned against his shoulder, I thought of the old Rhineland tradition of the Wilis; then the daughter of Herodias came into my mind; and then that scarcely less murderous danseuse, at whose many-twinkling feet they say the second Napoleon cast his frail life down.
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