This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... to something," she said. "I know you will succeed. I am perfectly confident of it. Edward Sekell is never mistaken in any thing connected with his profession, when he has looked the ground all over. Poor fellow! It won't take you long to turn his sorrow into joy; and he will see what advantage it is to be associated ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1886 Excerpt: ... to something," she said. "I know you will succeed. I am perfectly confident of it. Edward Sekell is never mistaken in any thing connected with his profession, when he has looked the ground all over. Poor fellow! It won't take you long to turn his sorrow into joy; and he will see what advantage it is to be associated with a good fighter. I hope he will take a lesson from you, and see that there is no need of giving every thing up. You can show the company that Millerton is trying to rob them; and they won't stand it." At nine o'clock the next morning, I was at the room in Tenth Street. Jorman soon came in, and I placed Sekell's letter before him, without a word. He read it through two or three times, and then began to walk back and forth on the thread-bare track in the carpet. At. length he stopped before me with a very stern expression in his face. "Now, Nolly," he said, "you have got to give up some of your nonsense. I '11 be cust if I am going to be bulldozed by you forever, and not permitted to have my way in any thing. You've got to let me finish paying for Ellermere, and then you have got to take money enough to start you off in planting. It is a pretty story if I can't be allowed to get some satisfaction out of my money. I'd rather be breaking stones on the street than to be defeated by somebody's damned squeamishness every time I set my heart on doing any thing. I '11 tell you just what I am going to do. I am going down to the bank, and I am going to bring ten thousand dollars in United States bonds up here; and, if you won't take them, I '11 burn them on the spot, right before your face." I saw that he was almost ready to cry, and replied, "I don't say that I shall reject your generous offer if there turns ou...
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