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Ford, Paul Leicester, 1865-1902

"The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him"

Costell. He had been
reading up a little on flowers and gardening, and he was glad to swap
his theoretical for her practical knowledge. Candor compels the
statement that he enjoyed the long hours stretched on the turf, or
sitting idly on the veranda, puffing Mr. Costell's good Havanas.
Twice Mr. Bohlmann stopped at Peter's office of a Saturday and took him
out to stay over Sunday at his villa in one of the Oranges. The family
all liked Peter and did not hesitate to show it. Mr. Bohlmann told him:
"I sbend about dree dousand a year on law und law-babers. Misder Dummer
id does for me, but ven he does nod any longer it do, I gifts id you."
On the second visit Mrs. Bohlmann said:
"I tell my good man that with all the law-business he has, he must get a
lawyer for a son-in-law."
Peter had not heard Mrs. Bohlmann say to her husband the evening before,
as they were prinking for dinner:
"Have you told Mr. Stirling about your law business?"
Nor Mr. Bohlmann's prompt:
"Yah.


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