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a time and he doesn t come to see her nor seem to care where she is nor what she does there was an strain in this of the case that struck mr forcibly he replied that the law was seldom understood by married women and that he would try to show just what it did and did not provide for then he went on to tell her that a h... | 1 |
was worth a dollar in the world or not if i were to pay frank the money i owe him said he i do not think i would have enough left to buy a breakfast to morrow morning everything has j young fa s wrong three or four thousand dollars more might enable me to get out of my scrape but having nothing what can i do was not as... | 1 |
since he went into business it was no longer easy for a young man with hardly a cent of capital to get a as near as he could reckon he was worth less than a thousand dollars after paying what he owed three weeks before he could count easily he wished he had to advise with whose judgment would be and honest while he sat... | 1 |
hastened to ask mr to help her out of it i have been him to accept both your offer and that of mr she said i think you may understand my interest in the case a little better when mr tells you that i am own cousin to his wife was rather sorry and rather glad to hear this he had been building up a little romance around t... | 1 |
the lord knew why have you never married she inquired you must have been in love he looked her straight in the eyes and told the lie with beautiful earnestness never mrs came to join them and the conversation took on a different turn he promised to come to new york and see them when they got settled an hour later he ga... | 1 |
told him that there were small in the domestic arrangements of his house that she could make she would have led him into views of the future by reminding him that such a failure was of very unusual occurrence and that the profits of the next quarter would probably far more than the loss of this one in short although he... | 1 |
than he intended as he did not to i his boy in charge of this ignorant fa s t f ant taking with him into the parlor he got down on the floor with him and attempted to amuse child thinking must return very soon he had no idea she had gone ay farther than to one of the stores in the vicinity and his only criticism was th... | 1 |
did not neglect the child perhaps he had been unreasonable it was true that business made him very nervous and irritable if would only say that she would not leave without a more intelligent attendant he would be satisfied an hour later when they had made up asked to tell him who had dared insult her with such a propos... | 1 |
way and it was only a little more for her to permit him to touch her palm friends were not plenty enough to justify her in offending the few she had i was afraid she murmured presently that you d like me less when you understood the truth when you knew that i had been deceiving you no he answered quickly you had a righ... | 1 |
any one she had a to the father s favor other things being equal believed s story and though he had a slight suspicion that she was not over fond of a husband from whom she was willing to be separated so young s long he did not think a great deal about it she behaved well enough when in his presence and she was not the... | 1 |
poor child i she said i know you have company for i heard you whispering who is it and why are you so agitated your hands are like ice and you are trembling like a leaf the hope that mrs had not heard to which she had clung like a drowning man to a mrs she could only cry in a faint voice oh and fall weeping on the othe... | 1 |
before the time that was expected to dinner and as soon as she was around the corner he took out his latch key and went in again we shall have everything our own way now he cried to we have only to reckon one of us to go where we like mrs loved this man with her whole soul she would never have sacrificed so much for hi... | 1 |
it fa tt s it was a straw and grasped at it she wanted very much to see freed from how do you mean she asked couldn t i give you the money and you let i mean mrs have it pretending it was your own shook her head she knows my affairs too well and beside she has had so much from me already that it troubles her a great de... | 1 |
he had fallen into a certain in regard to profits and losses there seemed little probability that he would ever be able to get enough out of co to pay the debt he owed except by retiring from the firm but on the other hand the security was reckoned good and he could easily have obtained the amount elsewhere had looked ... | 1 |
crept other pictures not at all agreeable supposing was not the kind of woman she ought to be and that too innocent to suspect such evil had been with her all this time putting her purity so close to the soiled life of her companion they had been the dearest of friends if he found cause to suspect anything wrong they m... | 1 |
threw in as sailors throw oil on the raging waves but the act had an effect opposite to the one intended how can you bring the name of that pure into a matter like this he retorted would you like him to know that his mother is a i wouldn t like him to know she sobbed that his father calls me everything he can think of ... | 1 |
in the way of ordinary conversation that was a good play at the union square last night he said he was reading a notice of it in the and as the paper was in front of his face he did not see the expression that crossed s at his next sentence i noticed that mrs seemed very much taken up with it the husband who was writin... | 1 |
and his money to take an innocent woman like and drag her around with him and his where fools might suspect even her purity it was fearful the lovers must have been very shrewd not to arouse the least glimmer of the truth in her mind they must they must they must stopped in the middle of the street a horrible thing had... | 1 |
as as a judge on the bench so he took a long walk over twenty third street to the river and up a avenue and down again after that he went into a theatre and passed three hours and then feeling slightly faint he got a lunch at a it was now past six and he walked slowly in the direction of his home his home never could i... | 1 |
that you should add inventions of your own he shifted uneasily in his chair put that thing down he said shortly don t intend to break my skull with it and you may as well let it alone she smiled don t i she echoed i would break the skull of any man who would offer such an insult to ma as you did a moment ago and refuse... | 1 |
he said to her and ask him if he has heard from lately he won t need the other name mil understand just ask him he last heard from chapter xxvi what made you marry mamma had been feeling very tender toward b s wife during the past few days the reaction that had followed the terrible misunderstanding had had its natural... | 1 |
got home the poison began to penetrate her veins she could think of nothing but that disagreeable word who could its owner be there must be yo fa tt s thing to it for frank had told her to try the effect of those magic on her husband and he would not have done that unless he believed their sound would awaken unpleasant... | 1 |
that money you know and he seemed awfully obliging he lived in rooms on street and he got up a supper in my honor i never thought of there being anything strange about it and when i found that there were women in the party i couldn t very well make a fuss they were a rather hard crowd that s the truth i got to drinking... | 1 |
think the ceremony of a marriage would make it any pleasanter to live with her if anything should happen to cause a it was much easier to pack a trunk and call a cab than to spend a year or two waiting the decision of a judge not to mention such things as counsel and and was she also content by no means she loved frank... | 1 |
uttered the same laugh had been holding a revolver to his head your threats are unnecessary he answered i should never think of leaving you here alone as i am responsible for the articles you see about you when you find that your wife is not one of them you will i presume kindly take your leave he turned to the opposit... | 1 |
t leave me here with him her anguish was evidently intense she would have fallen at his feet in her had he permitted her it was plain that she had been a listener to s exposure of the relation she held toward him was very sorry for her but he shrank from the suggestion she made take you home with me he repeated take yo... | 1 |
a change of position would be but young s it was evident that would not let any one in the house touch him without a struggle what do you want inquired bending the child i want aunt straightened himself up with a jerk the blood rushed to his brain and made him dizzy whom does he speak of asked dr if it is any one you c... | 1 |
her finish her sleep then when she break it to her as gently as you can heart broken the father returned to s chamber and watched the gradual of the brightest light that had ever shone along his pathway his despair was so great that he seemed stony to those who looked at him there are where the ordinary tokens of sorro... | 1 |
he began she into melancholy and a great deal which was very bad for her health and for the child that was yet to be born into that household it was this child that made continue to treat his wife with respect it was this that made him refrain from any allusion to what he had discovered in mrs s apartment that night wh... | 1 |
to get work in a shop she paused again thinking it would help her if he would say something no matter what but he did not change his attitude or look i got my money went on from my aunt and cousin it is very much more than i have any use for you have refused to take it and put it into your business as i wanted you to d... | 1 |
time he was strolling in the park he came across mrs walking like himself alone he would have avoided addressing her had she not stopped abruptly in his path so that he could not help acknowledging her presence without a kind of that he did not like to use i have been wanting a few words with you mr murmured mrs and i ... | 1 |
to it it was a long time since she had been beyond her and she had had literally no visitors but dr and her nurse the fact is said forcing out the words with difficulty i am going away going away where i am going away he repeated too many things have made new york unpleasant to me she waited a few seconds for him to ex... | 1 |
of addition he was a confirmed and a very comfortable sort of fellow at the moment when he is introduced to the reader he was gazing into a love at seventy heap of coals which burned brightly in the grate before him both the book keeper and his companion suddenly became aware that there was a knock at the outer door of... | 1 |
sense of sight he would have enjoyed nothing better than merely to look at him for the rest of the afternoon having taken a very late r love at seventy breakfast he was not troubled by those which made glad to hear the noon signal sit down he added presently it is surely more comfortable here than out of doors as the l... | 1 |
best part of my purchase and as soon as i have the money to spare i intend to build a large house upon it the inquired if a wife was among the early who can tell was the reply delivered in a serious manner which did not convey much information in time the projected sent up their smoke long rows of cottages the workmen ... | 1 |
possessing such an elegant establishment still it was largely on account of his brother s infant that he set up housekeeping on such an immense scale after the death of s mother on his occasional visits to found him so engrossed in his books that he hardly seemed to know there was a baby to bear his name the child was ... | 1 |
long after he learned the reason why none of the members of the immense police force of london make any interference with these people one of them happened to arrest a respectable lady by mistake several years ago and naturally a great fuss was made about it in order to be perfectly sure not to repeat this error no sim... | 1 |
not fancy trying it himself how can i get away he asked helplessly easily enough she goes every morning to her mother s does she not to take her a when she she at what hour you wish her to return you respond that you will expect her at six o clock for dinner that gives you seven hours in which to leave the city you wil... | 1 |
that she was about to take up her residence with a son who lived in though not without her faults mrs martin was a pattern of neatness and order the who drew the plans of the buildings had sent her on from philadelphia apparently to match the rest of the which were grand solemn and impressive when mr received news of h... | 1 |
nephew made little galloped into the affections of the old man with as much facility as she galloped about the roads in the neighborhood on a pony that he very soon bought for her she even filled a in his heart which the boy had never quite succeeded in doing he found the greatest delight in her society and thought not... | 1 |
his bells in person and that it was doubtful if she the pretty girl would even so much as get a glimpse of him made up his mind as he was to be forced to remain for some time in that he would get all the fun possible out of his residence at the hotel before he had been in the house an hour he had the cordial ill will o... | 1 |
he thought he would stay where he was for the present you arc still satisfied with the hotel asked the uncle i m i can trust you d quite replied with the pretty girl in his mind there would be nothing for you to do at the house continued mr it is a dull place i have locked up most of the rooms and taken the keys he exh... | 1 |
he repeated but that is quite different from saying that i shall now miss perhaps i ought to say good by as we may never meet again if you consult my wishes and your own interest it will be a permanent farewell miss if you please without unnecessary delay he had time to throw himself into a chair and i m i can you laug... | 1 |
cleared away the dishes put the table and stand where she had found them and quietly left the room he said no more to her and she began to think he would prove a less disagreeable person to wait on than she had feared if she had known all that passed in his mind she might have had less cause for an hour later sauntered... | 1 |
speaker with consternation he had never heard such words addressed to a man who was worth a hundred thousand dollars what could the fellow mean do you imagine continued that you are any better than when you worked by my side over in for a dollar and a quarter a day do you think you are going to run over me with your hi... | 1 |
a damned sight exclaimed with so much that the other roared aloud but i don t want to marry and i never shall marry and that is all there is to it said the when he grew sober again i ve got to have a housekeeper if i live here and i ve had enough of your with across the sea i m glad to have this woman and her child to ... | 1 |
am trying to was the gentle answer i mean you re teaching her to regard herself as above her proper station that s not a kindness to the girl nor a piece of wisdom for what is her proper station inquired the station of a girl who ought if she ever to be a poor man s wife what comfort will she get in that position after... | 1 |
fainted in the road yes and you would faint again was the reply there is no work for you in all this region the only situation you can find in a year s search is right here at your disposal refuse it as often as you please you will have to accept it at last protested that it was no situation but simply charity that was... | 1 |
him as butler who had been in his uncle s employ much longer than he could remember he said the man paused in his work and for an instant surveyed the with an expression of doubt don t you recognize me cried i do now sir answered the man taking the hand that was offered him it s a good while since i saw you mr i heard ... | 1 |
of sitting at your table asked to divert his companion s attention for the last few days yes it was here with no one to speak to and lying in the room yonder she sat down with me and pretended to eat but i know she didn t enjoy jt she is intensely sensitive and inclined to be easily frightened the young fellow looked u... | 1 |
said smiled that the best way to reform the world is for each person to reform himself it is easier for the child who never tasted wine to from than it is for the confirmed it is rather late for me but you can set the world a shining example he meant to bring a laugh to the countenance of his guest but was as sober as ... | 1 |
inquiry he had already heard from people at the hotel that she had left i believe she went west to live with one of her sons responded what a cross old lady she was exclaimed with a laugh i used to think sometimes my uncle was really afraid of her not much like the one he has now he added at a venture i think everybody... | 1 |
the library keys he asked finally i i think it will be better stammered the man if you will wait till she returns she does not like to have anyone go into the house when she is out had no sooner said this than he before the glance that met his when i want your advice said severely i shall probably ask for it you have a... | 1 |
my mind to stir my blood your uncle has tried to do everything for me before i had been here a month he bought me a pony to ride but when i am on his back i have nowhere to go they don t like to let me outside the grounds it is very dull through the same roads and back again then i have my language teachers and music m... | 1 |
of his nature swept across his brain he was in love of course but he had been as much in love many many times and had awakened to find his passion at an end he resolved to use a little more sense with this girl for might not be a good man to trifle with there are many things to think of he said in a grave voice i like ... | 1 |
of smoke from his pipe after his usual fashion and a board that had served them for a quarter century stood between the two men do you suppose came here for anything but to get those books asked mr pausing between the moves shouldn t wonder responded mechanically what if he did the instrument maker made his next play w... | 1 |
your nephew at home why did you keep him away from your house when he came to the reason is not a very creditable one to a man who has seen almost seventy and has a business reputation as a fellow of common sense but it s the real one you re in love with that little girl yourself for several seconds looked as if he was... | 1 |
in looking into the eyes of a pretty woman now and then is it anything for which he should be hanged drawn and mr was silent he seemed too exhausted to debate the subject any longer you say the housekeeper s girl is not well continued i shouldn t think she would be you d be an invalid yourself if you were fastened up a... | 1 |
the train was starting wrung his companion s hand so sharply that he bruised it and with a hasty good by left him alone caught in thb act chapter xiv caught in the act for various reasons nearly a fortnight elapsed after the meeting which had with in his uncle s library before he accepted her invitation to enter the gr... | 1 |
something useful to tell the truth i have no idea how i could turn my slight talents into bread if all else fails my dear i will make a effort to convince the world that i am a much needed individual for whom it has long felt a keen desire it would be much better though if we could convince my respected relation that h... | 1 |
professed the warmest tion for her so short a time before had coolly left the place without sending a word to explain the reason or an address to which she could write oh it was scandalous even the fear of being of losing the immense property which his uncle had accumulated could hardly the young man from leaving the t... | 1 |
talked i am my welcome i wouldn t care so much if you hadn t got into this scrape on my account he added now don t say be sorry the girl had a severe struggle with the conflicting motions which these expressions brought forth it was true as lie that mr had made a bargain with her through by which he was to send her wha... | 1 |
all that to the lies or possibly to the truths that had been hired to tell her about me whatever the reason my mind is now too full of my to let me shed many tears as i am barred from s society and as she is entirely alone in the now don t sat you re sorry city i know she would be delighted to see you often and althoug... | 1 |
excuse me he exclaimed to open a letter after it has been deposited is by a heavy penalty you must find some other way sir i can at least take it to her mother mr answered his face darkening as her daughter is a minor she certainly has a right to it the was in great distress he disliked to offend this man on whose his ... | 1 |
held up he knew the handwriting and the extraordinary began to have a definite meaning for him had written to him perhaps under cover of s name but about him at least his uncle was evidently the letter from its owner probably with the intention of its seal for his own purposes the anger he had ever known his brain comp... | 1 |
point where he could effect a love at seventy full reconciliation with the young man he preferred to believe he was not as bad as represented he reflected that something must be allowed for his youth and he had even the possibility of to his nephew all hopes of possessing the sweet girl whose love filled the brightest ... | 1 |
shook his clenched fist at the air advancement he cried god will you drive me crazy the man addressed vouchsafed no reply to this exclamation he was becoming every minute at the attitude taken an attitude he told himself that the world at large would be sure to copy i ve thought a hundred times continued speaking as if... | 1 |
s misfortune it was a terrible thing that such a should have happened between mr and his nephew on the contrary was too indignant to think his uncle s conduct appeared to him entirely proposing to open a letter directed to another person was in his opinion the depth of meanness as to her mother s employer had no right ... | 1 |
likely to be too much in it but we ll share all there is do you consent to that shall we divide everything all but the kisses of miss which it is understood belong exclusively to you felt distressed as he heard these words what would be s attitude toward if they became one family if he should make advances nothing coul... | 1 |
her maid oh it is so sweet to be loved she cried this is what i wanted all the time instead of those dreadful and see how much better my complexion is how much more color i have i hope he will not make me wait too long i want very little only a piece of bread and a roof to cover me but in his arms i should forget even ... | 1 |
of her error he was glad to have a minute in which to recover himself they had been such intimate friends that he did not believe the condition of her dress would disturb her when she discovered her mistake he must talk to her now he could not wait another hour so he love at seventy closed the door softly behind him an... | 1 |
against him what a wall of she was supposing i showed you proofs i would not look at them u if i brought you witnesses love at seventy i would not listen these answers made him quite beside himself with rage you shall never lower yourself by marrying that boy he exclaimed and i will tell you another thing i have arrang... | 1 |
who could say what influences one so used to charming members of her sex might have brought to bear in the collection of photographs which had shown him there were faces as sweet as hers and yet we have happened to exchange information of mutual interest said with a smile for she saw the frown that covered his brow and... | 1 |
that even his ill temper could not drive away there came a feeling human nature was the same in rich te kiss too many and poor high and low he was himself too now to his equals was handsome if she had been thrown too completely into s company who was more to blame than the man who him rose and after making his toilet w... | 1 |
and in such cases it is customary i don t know but you could claim another week as you were entitled to notice but twelve dollars is all i can give you in the absence of instructions satisfied with the explanation entered the office and signed a receipt the other clerks spoke to him in a casual way saying that he was n... | 1 |
my back was turned and i cannot tell how long his plan was it was he who suggested her as our housekeeper yes you may as well know it was he who asked me to come here on that errand it makes me feel as if all the world was false as if there was no one whom i could trust she assented with a thoughtful nod and for some t... | 1 |
room and spoil your best carpet women are made for affection in times of great mental distress they turn their faces toward the sunlight no matter from which direction it comes continued to talk in a low to set her right again with no matter how great an apology it required he referred to that young man so often that s... | 1 |
he kissed her without the least trace of passion and went out she stood where he had left her pondering on those words of his what did they mean if he were rich no other man should ever touch her lips but he was engaged to that young lady in ah god to be so poor to hold so much love and to hear such an intimation as th... | 1 |
the venerable face reaching slowly into his pocket among the bills there and finally drew out ten dollars i ought not to do it it will inconvenience me he murmured but you may have that if you are it will last you till you can communicate with my brother and beg his pardon the father turned to his writing as if he cons... | 1 |
pitying who complained of the of her confinement and before i knew it i had asked her to marry me and she had consented i now mean to write again telling my whole story and begging her to release me it looks cowardly but it is the only thing left under the circumstances the fact that his nephew was about to his aspirat... | 1 |
she had sent for her sister who had done everything possible but all in vain the body had been taken to her former home and in her father s lot mr was so by this news that he felt unable even to visit his sister in law he sent a generous check asking her to accept it for the expense and trouble she had undergone but th... | 1 |
quiet home she had dreamed of a happiness that could never have been hers for a lover who would act as he had done would be sure to make a most husband so thought this wise young woman and more than likely she was not far out of the way in her conjectures but there was a certain satisfaction in the very presence of suc... | 1 |
the city without walking wrote the address carefully in a little book that he carried in his coat pocket if it will ease your pride any said he i have another proposition to make i would like to employ you for a week or so on a very particular love at seventy and private affair if you succeed in what i wish to accompli... | 1 |
his fine eyes were with the tears he could not restrain chapter and the delight of at being with his uncle was fully shared by miss the old gentleman remained to dinner with them and became more and more impressed with the sweet and modest bearing of his nephew s young housekeeper he refrained by arrangement with from ... | 1 |
courage i need you like me you are sure you like me tears stood in his eyes quite innocent of what he had in mind she felt a profound pity for the sentiments that had brought such visible sorrow to this man who had done so much for her rising she put her arms around his neck as she had done a hundred times in younger y... | 1 |
to look on the bright side than on the dark one when a young maiden offers to lead the way within an hour the plans for flight began to be it is hardly twelve o clock he said looking at the on the mantel i can go to rouse the stable keeper and get here with a carriage by half past three you can have the things that are... | 1 |
of the chairs offered her and began to sob violently the took the letters and began to read first the one addressed to himself he had only reached the words with him who is to be my husband when a mist came over his eyes he thought at the moment that had lied to him after all that his pretence of love for was a mere bl... | 1 |
is true then smiled for the first time i know it is not said he and for the best of reasons i was sent by mr to out the whereabouts of that child and i have done so before many days i will prove to you what i say overcome with astonishment invited home with him and the invitation was accepted everything explained chapt... | 1 |
the all eyes were now turned on whose face was with her husband s uncle had her to his side and his shaking arm was clasped about her form strangely enough did not seem to object in the least to the proceeding very well said mr we will use the right this time and call the child she the girl then that miss brought up an... | 1 |
well as the others he was placed at the head of the board with on everything explained his right and on his left their husbands next to them of course when the champagne was brought he rose and in a steady voice asked all present to drink the health of my darling daughter the of love at seventy chapter a peep at the st... | 1 |
a hard headed business man like you shouldn t trust altogether to appearances if the boy is really the creature you think you can leave him your fortune if you want to if the case was mine though i d prove that before i did so finished the beer in his and rang to have it his gaze wandered over the walls of the room fro... | 1 |
i can only give you the same answer but was the impatient has there been anything in what you ve seen of that makes you distrust him a moment before replying that second or two which is always more eloquent than words to a troubled or doubting mind i haven t said there was anything he answered but consider a moment pet... | 1 |
man to obey the request to leave the house before he was quite convinced peter had to ring for to bring him a fresh breakfast which he attacked with an appetite that was not i m all right now ask to come as soon as he can i have some business to do with him the old gentleman was impatient for the moment when he could t... | 1 |
in new york came from dutch men who landed with on their backs i ve heard that a from is descended from a french baby rescued from a vessel and brought up in the my mother used to say her folks were big people in europe before her father lost his property i m going to make a lady of in spite of you so there with the mo... | 1 |
leave at the next station return and confess the whole plot to knew his friend was not the man to do this having once started on his road and only smiled he was sorry to find him so utterly and began to talk of the probability the almost certainty that the young man would justify his highest hopes he also pictured the ... | 1 |
came in the meantime he dismissed his and reduced his living expenses to the limit he had acquaintances to whom he might have applied for a loan but with such uncertain prospects of payment he hesitated to ask aid of any of them at last he resolved to set out on a personal tour of investigation the continued silence of... | 1 |
but a few hundred feet away and had thought a sufficient distance for safety allowed between the and the bore down toward the struggling ones quicker than any of the others as good a as ever traversed the blue waters of san bay pulled his with rapid movements to where the beauty had sunk and springing over the side he ... | 1 |
whom he had passed a few words at the dinner table they had exchanged cards and he knew that the name of his visitor was i hope i don t interrupt you said but i heard you came home soaked and my curiosity got the better of me would you mind telling how it happened not at all rather glad to have to talk to related th pa... | 1 |
bowed with more dignity to in the sober attitude of the latter he scented a case and when mr scented a case his every faculty was roused to the utmost without delay the history of s disappearance from st louis as he had just learned it before he paused for breath he had presented the situation the of the who accompanie... | 1 |
his chamber that his agency was in a fair way to make a good thing and when got this far he generally had a pretty clear idea of what he was talking about while his coffee in dressing gown and slippers he had the morning paper brought to him he glanced over its columns rapidly with the trained eye a sugar princess of a... | 1 |
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