You dont want to see fathers firm go
under.
George was too deeply engrossed in his own
humiliation and anguishof spirit to heed. How much do you need to square thatnote
and pay your assessment to that engine company? Georges hand had been the only one
to reach down to him when hewas in the depths. And as for making good, with a savage
sneer, Im a fine one totalk about that just now.
He declared it to be Black Republican weather.
Hestared, breathed heavily, and then slowly shook his head.
And when you speak and act that way Iknow they
ought to be talked about. His hair was tumbled and his chin unshaven.
Faced with this new and staggering complication he
had endeavoredto meet it, somehow.
He was glad when his friendleft the office.
Otherbusiness men take a day off once in a while, but not you. But I guess you,or
anybody else, would have been as big a fool if the chance hadcome your way. He
disengaged his sleeve from her grasp and led the way into thesitting room. George,
after a glance at the clock, reluctantly departed.
Look here, lowering his voice, is it onaccount of
our talk last night?
Between her and that Maggie Ive about got to the
end of mytowline.
Well,shes dead, so there is no use calling her
names, but.
His manner was an odd combination of
eagerness,anxiety, and shamed embarrassment. I know theres something dead wrong,
Carey, he insisted. It was like a fist between the eyes forme. Then, asshe saw his
face, she added: And you look like a sick chicken, ifever a body did. Cora did not
deign to remain with her brother-in-law. He must go throughwith it to the inevitable
end.