. Little by little, she stopped hating him. “It’s unforgivable of me to call, Miss Stanley,” he said, shaking hands in a
peculiar, high, fashionable manner; “but you know you said we might be
friends. I've an idea it'll be that
long before the chap gets up. ”
The young man accepted the letter and the message, and seemed about to close
the door when a lady issued from one of the front rooms and intervened. With the aid of a penknife he ripped the shoulder seams and drew out the
ten one-thousand dollar bills. Besides, didn't I
tell you that I giv' him as good as he brought—and better! I jist touched him with
my 'Evenin' Star,' as I call this shillelah," said the watchman, flourishing an
immense bludgeon, the knob of which appeared to be loaded with lead, "and, by
Saint Patrick! down he cum'd like a bullock. The contest, however,
though desperate, was brief. She was nearly too giddy still to answer him. His apparel was sumptuous in the extreme, and such as was only
worn by persons of the highest distinction. She did not forge a note. It became a sort of duel at last between them, and all the
others sat and listened—every one, that is, except the Alderman, who had got the
blond young man into a corner by the green-stained dresser with the aluminum
things, and was sitting with his back to every one else, holding one hand over his
mouth for greater privacy, and telling him, with an accent of confidential
admission, in whispers of the chronic struggle between the natural modesty and
general inoffensiveness of the Borough Council and the social evil in
Marylebone. ’
Chapter Ten
‘I am come on a mission of some delicacy, ma’am,’ Gerald said calmly to the old
lady.
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