As for Leonore, who was now an
heiress on a far greater scale than ever before, he
naturally found her something a vast deal higher in the
husband market than a two-hundred-a-year poster designer.
Mark Spayley, the brainmouse who had helped the financial
lion with such untoward effect, was left to curse the day he
produced the wonder-working poster.
``After all,'' said Clovis, meeting him shortly afterwards
at his club, ``you have this doubtful consolation, that 'tis
not in mortals to countermand success.''
THE MUSIC ON THE HILL
Sylvia Seltoun ate her breakfast in the morning-room at
Yessney with a pleasant sense of ultimate victory, such as a
fervent Ironside might have permitted himself on the morrow
of Worcester fight. She was scarcely pugnacious by
temperament, but belonged to that more successful class of
fighters who are pugnacious by circumstance. Fate had
willed that her life should be occupied with a series of
small struggles, usually with the odds slightly against her,
and usually she had just managed to come through winning.
And now she felt that she had brought her hardest and
certainly her most important struggle to a successful issue.
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