Excerpt: ...refused to receive. She had always said he was bad and would come to a bad end, and when he was detected in a low trick, selling stationery which he had stolen from the supply room, and was discharged in disgrace, Matty had said it was good enough for him. These were her reasons for pronouncing at once that he had stolen the vouchers and had started the rumors. "I do not know. Papa does not know. He hardly tries to guess. He says either way it is bad. If the vouchers are stolen, he is in fault, for he is ...
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Excerpt: ...refused to receive. She had always said he was bad and would come to a bad end, and when he was detected in a low trick, selling stationery which he had stolen from the supply room, and was discharged in disgrace, Matty had said it was good enough for him. These were her reasons for pronouncing at once that he had stolen the vouchers and had started the rumors. "I do not know. Papa does not know. He hardly tries to guess. He says either way it is bad. If the vouchers are stolen, he is in fault, for he is responsible for the archives; if he cannot produce the vouchers, then all the country is down on him for stealing. I only hope," said poor Mrs. Molyneux, "that they won't say our poor old wagon is a coach and six;" and this time she tried to smile. And now she had told her story. All last night, while the children were asleep, Mr. Molyneux had been at the office, even till four o'clock in the morning, taking old dusty piles from their lairs and searching for those wretched vouchers. And mamma had been waiting-shall one not say, had been weeping?-here at home. That was the reason poor papa had looked so haggard at breakfast this morning. This was all mamma had to tell. She had been to the office this morning, but papa would not let her stay. He must see all comers, just as if nothing had happened, was happening, or was going to happen. Well! Matty did make her mother take off her jacket and her hat and her gloves. She even made her drink a glass of wine and lie down. And then the poor girl retired to her own room, with such appetite as she might for taking the last stitches in worsted work, for stippling in the lights into drawings, for writing the presentation lines in books, and for doing the thousand little niceties in the way of finishing touches which she had promised the children to do for them. Her dominant feeling-yes, it was a dominant passion, as she knew-was simply rage against this miserable Greenhithe, this cowardly sneak who was...
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1971 Hale, Edward Everett THE BRICK MOON FROM THE PAPERS OF CAPTAIN FREDERIC INGHAM Introduction by Alden P Johnson Barre, MA: Imprint Society, 1971 80pp 1/1950cc Illus Michale McCurdy Thin 4to As new in sunned slipcase.
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