35/35 He bowed from side to side in his own lordly way, and flourished and extended his pudgy palm in courtly courtesy. The carriages disappeared in the distance, and then--sad, suspicious, uncommunicative--the men went off to draw their last dividend and go about their work. They fought desperately against their own distrust. In the proportion that they doubted the proprietor they were ready to defend him; but there was not a man of them who had not been fairly warned that he was running his own risk, and who had not sought for the privilege of throwing away his money.. |