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If you make a good deposit I'll throw off ten per cent, which is all of my profit." "Thank you," said Alwyn, but he looked over the account and found the whole bill at least twice as large as he expected. Without further parley, he made some excuse and started to town while Mr. Cresswell went to the telephone.
Broderick, "so come and grumble as often as you like. Greta is coming to tea with me to-morrow, and Mr. Alwyn has promised to fetch her. Why don't you come too, and you shall have a real Scotch tea, bannocks and scones and seed cake," but Olivia shook her head at this tempting invitation. "Marcus had asked her to go round to the model lodging houses," she said, "to see two families in trouble.
If Alwyn Gaythorne, trammelled and embittered by his father's tyranny, had dashed recklessly down the path that leads to destruction, his father had first driven him to the verge of frenzy. Young limbs will not always adjust themselves to the Procrustean bed. Alwyn, who had inherited his father's strong will, refused to bear the yoke of his despotism.
Alwyn, beholding the mournful desolation of the scene, felt a strong sense of disappointment, he had expected something different, his imagination had pictured these historical ruins as being of larger extent and more imposing character.
"Your men, in the other cars " Doctor Alwyn stammered, as they came to a crunching stop before the door. "Will they arrive in time to be of service? Mac Alarney will reach here first " "My men will be at his heels," returned Blaine, shortly. "They held back purposely, acting under my instructions. Come on now."
"When it's cl'ared," interrupted Johnson, and Simpson looked alarmed. "It is partially cleared," continued Alwyn, "and our plan is to sell off small twenty-acre farms " "You can't do nothing on twenty acres " began Johnson, but Tylor laid his huge hand right over his mouth and said briefly: "Shut up!"
"May thy trial in these last be over," answered Alwyn; "but the humble must console their state by thinking that the great have their trials too; and, as our homely adage hath it, 'That is not always good in the maw which is sweet in the mouth. Thou seest much of my gentle foster- brother, Mistress Sibyll?"
"Everyman can WILL his own destiny," returned Alwyn firmly. "That is just it. But here we are getting into a serious discussion, and I had determined to talk no more on such subjects till to-night." "And to-night we are to go in for them thoroughly, I suppose?" inquired Villiers with a quick look.
Olivia had expected Greta quite early, but she did not make her appearance until late in the afternoon. She had been detained, she said nurse had asked her to take her place for a couple of hours. And then she looked anxiously at Olivia. "I am afraid Alwyn is ill," she observed; but Olivia assured her that it was only a temporary break-down. "We have such good news of Mr.
How very still she was! ... how fervently absorbed in prayer! Vaguely startled, and thrilled by an electric, indefinable instinct, Alwyn went toward her with hushed and reverential tread, his eyes dwelling upon the drooping, delicate outline of her form with fascinated and eager attention.
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