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Walters reddened, looked straight at Roebuck without speaking. "Do you still deny?" demanded Roebuck. "I saw everybody everybody grafting," said Walters boldly, "and I thought I might as well take my share. It's part of the business." Then he added cynically: "That's the way it is nowadays. The lower ones see the higher ones raking off, and they rake off, too down to conductors and brakemen.
He doubled like a hare, sprang like a roebuck, rushed madly forward like a wild boar the cursed flute-player did not lose his track for an instant, so that all Rome, understanding nothing about the object of this nocturnal race, but knowing that it was the victor who performed it, came to their windows, shouting, 'Long live Duilius; long live the conqueror of the Carthaginians; long live the savior of Rome! The poor man had one last hope; that of finding the people at his mistress's house asleep and the door half-open, as she had promised to leave it.
"At the green-table don't you remember?" "Yes, I remember every hour of that day; we had lunch at the 'Roebuck." "You haven't spoken of the lady we saw there. Lady Something I forget what you said her name was; you said she had been making up to you." "I dined with her one night, and we went to the theatre." "You may do that without it being said that you are making up to a gentleman."
No sane creature, not even a sane bulldog, will fight simply from love of fighting. When a man is attacked, he may be sure he has excited either fear or cupidity, or both. As far as I could see, it was absurd that cupidity was inciting Langdon and Roebuck against me. I hadn't enough to tempt them.
But the wound was so slight that the roebuck, next morning, did not feel it any more. And when he again heard the sport outside, he said, "I cannot bear it, I must be there; they shall not find it so easy to catch me." The sister cried, and said, "This time they will kill you, and here am I alone in the forest and forsaken by all the world. I will not let you out."
Clearly this is a better line of reflection for weak humanity, so long as it remains on this earthly field of labor and trial. But neither Sir Charles Adderley nor Mr. Roebuck is by nature inaccessible to considerations of this sort. They only lose sight of them owing to the controversial life we all lead, and the practical form which all speculation takes with us.
Once, I remember, Roebuck sent me a thousand dollar check signed by a distinguished Chicago lawyer who was just then counsel to his opponent in a case involving millions, a case which Roebuck afterward won! Who presented these checks? I could more easily say who did not. From the very beginning of my control I kept my promise to reduce the cost of the political business to my clients.
"My dear Roebuck," I replied, "do you suppose I'm the man to put all my eggs into one basket and that basket Wall Street?" And I refused to talk any more politics with him. We dined together, I calm and in the best of spirits; we went to a musical farce, and he watched me glumly as I showed my lightness of heart.
Roebuck, founder of the celebrated Carron Iron Works near by, which Burns apostrophised in these lines, when denied admittance: "We cam na here to view your works In hopes to be mair wise, But only lest we gang to hell It may be nae surprise." He was approached upon the subject by Dr.
Sir George Grey, the colleague of Gosford, Lord Stanley, a former colonial secretary, and William Ewart Gladstone, then a vigorous young Tory, spoke in support of the resolutions. The chief opposition came from the Radical wing of the Whig party, headed by Hume and Roebuck; but these members were comparatively few in number, and the resolutions were passed by overwhelming majorities.
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