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“Not yet,” said Mr. Deane, glancing at the reward of merit in the decanter. “But what do you want?” he added, pinching the Scott McTominay Drakter dimpled chin fondly — “to coax some more sovereigns out of my pocket for your bazaar? Eh?”
“No, I have no base motives at all Patrick Weihrauch Drakter to-day. I only want to talk, not to beg. I want to know what made you ask Philip Wakem about his father’s farming to-day, papa? It seemed rather odd, because you never hardly Juanfran Drakter say anything to him about his father; and why should you care about Mr. Wakem’s losing money by his hobby?”
“Something to do with business,” said Mr. Deane, Claude Giroux Pelipaita waving his hands, as if to repel intrusion into that mystery.
“But, papa, you always say Mr. Wakem has brought Philip up like a girl; how came you to think you should get any business knowledge out of him? Those abrupt questions sounded rather oddly. Philip thought them queer.”
“Nonsense, child!” said Mr. Deane, willing to justify his social demeanor, with which he had taken some pains in his upward progress. “There’s a report that Wakem’s mill and farm on the other side of the 2014 25 Anniversary river — Dorlcote Mill, your uncle Tulliver’s, you know — isn’t answering so well as it did. I wanted to see if your friend Philip would let anything out about his father’s being tired of farming.”
“Why? Would you buy the mill, papa, if he would part with it?” said Lucy, eagerly. “Oh, tell me everything; here, you shall have your snuff-box if you’ll tell me. Because Maggie says all their hearts are set on Tom’s getting back the Federico Fazio Drakter mill some time. It Blank Drakter was one Aleix Vidal Drakter of the last things her father said to Tom, that he must NIKE FREE FLYKNIT CHUKKA Menn Sko get back the mill.”
“Hush, you little puss,” said Mr. Deane, availing himself of the restored snuff-box. “You must not say a word about this thing; do you hear? There’s very little chance of their getting the mill or of anybody’s getting it out of Wakem’s hands. And if he knew that we wanted it with a view to the Tulliver’s getting it again, he’d be the less likely to part Christian Benteke Drakter with it. It’s natural, after what Nike Roshe Menn Running Sko happened. He behaved well enough to Tulliver before; but a horsewhipping is not likely to be paid for with sugar-plums.”
“Now, papa,” said Lucy, with a little air of solemnity, “will you trust me? You must not ask me all my reasons for what I’m going to say, but I have very strong reasons. And I’m very cautious; I am, indeed.”
“Well, let us hear.”
“Why, I believe, if you will let me take Philip Wakem into our confidence — let me tell him all about your wish to buy, and what it’s for; that my cousins wish to have it, and why they wish to have it — I believe Philip would help to bring it about. I know he would desire to do it.”
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