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Of course, he is older than John Eames; and, as he has been longer at it, I suppose he has more than eighty pounds a year." "I am not in Mr Crosbie's confidence. He is in the General Committee Office, I know; and, I believe, has pretty nearly the management of the whole of it.
"And here, Mr Eames, is to your very good health," said Lupex, raising to his mouth a steaming goblet of gin-and-water, "and wishing you many years to enjoy your official prosperity." "Thank ye," said Eames. "I don't know much about the prosperity, but I'm just as much obliged." "Yes, sir; when I see a young man of your age beginning to rise in the world, I know he'll go on.
"Yes," said the assistant secretary, "this is Eames." "Ah!" and then there was a pause. "Come a little nearer, Mr Eames, will you?" and Johnny drew nearer, advancing noiselessly over the Turkey carpet. "Let me see; in the second class, isn't he? Ah!
Having thought upon the matter deeply, she had resolved that she would not marry Mr Crosbie, and had pledged herself to that effect to friends who never could have brought themselves to feel affection for him, even had she married him. But the shattering of the false image might have done John Eames a good turn.
The thing took for a time, and Conway Dalrymple was picking up his gilt sugar-plums with considerable rapidity. On a certain day he and John Eames were to dine out together at a certain house in that Bayswater district.
His uncle begged of him not to think of such an alternative; but this discussion took place after dinner, and away from the office, and Eames would not submit to bow his neck to authority. "If it comes to that," said he, "a fellow might as well be a slave at once. And what is the use of a fellow having a little money if it does not make him independent?
It was known that Crosbie had deserved to be thrashed and known that Eames had thrashed him. It was all very well for Sir Raffle Buffle to talk of police magistrates and misdemeanours, but all the world at the Income-tax Office knew very well that Eames had come out from that affair with his head upright and his right foot foremost.
John Eames saw nothing more of Lily Dale till he packed up his portmanteau, left his mother's house, and went to stay for a few days with his old friend Lady Julia; and this did not happen till he had been above a week at Guestwick. Mrs Dale repeatedly said that it was odd that Johnny did not come to see them; and Grace, speaking of him to Lily, asked why he did not come.
But Miss Spruce was a taciturn old lady, not easily excited to any show of surprise or admiration; and as she had lived with Mrs Roper for the last twelve years, she was probably well acquainted with her daughter's ways. "You'll be true to me?" said Amelia, during the moment of that embrace "true to me for ever?" "Oh, yes; that's a matter of course," said Johnny Eames.
He understood me, and since that day his foot has not pressed his native soil." "And was it all because you are so fond of your liberty?" said Johnny. "Perhaps, I did not love him," said Miss Demolines, thoughtfully. She was now again seated in her chair, and John Eames had gone back to his corner of the sofa. "If I had really loved him I suppose it would have been otherwise.
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