[Kennedy Square by F. Hopkinson Smith]@TWC D-Link bookKennedy Square CHAPTER XVI 14/27
And as to calling him out--you would as soon think of challenging your wife.
St. George talks from his heart, never his head.
I have loved him for thirty years and know exactly what I am talking about--and yet let me tell you, Gorsuch, that with all his qualities--and he is the finest-bred gentleman I know--he can come closer to being a natural born fool than any man of his years and position in Kennedy Square.
This treatment of my son--whom I am trying to bring up a gentleman--is one proof of it, and this putting all his eggs into one basket--and that a rotten basket--is another." "Well, then--if that is your feeling about it, colonel, why not go and see him? As I have said, he needs all the friends he's got at a time like this." If he could bring the two men together the boy might come home.
Not to be able to wave back to Harry as he dashed past on Spitfire, had been a privation which the whole settlement had felt. "That is, of course," he continued, "if St.George Temple would be willing to receive you.
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