Forcus

Part of her duty, he had been told, was to wheedle Jarvis out of the flowers Miss Forcus liked to see in her rooms, but of which he resented the cutting.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

"Have you seen anything of Reggie Forcus to-day, William?" presently she asked.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

She had received warnings on the subject of Reginald Forcus before.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

Nothing slipped down the local throat so satisfactorily as Forcus and Son's Family Ale; and the present representatives of the firm were easily the wealthiest people in the town.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

"I have been thinking about what you tell me of Bess and young Forcus," the father said.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

The Forcus carriage, therefore, had been conspicuous in the meagre procession following the little coffin to the cemetery.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

Forcus, when on a certain Thursday afternoon she excused herself, as it was often her habit to do, from attending on Miss Forcus, and went to pass the hour and a half of the early-closing day with her mother and sister.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

The two dined alone, as was usual of late, the delicate health of Lady Forcus compelling her often to keep her room.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

All such facts, which Ada Forcus generally accepted as a matter of course, she now produced for the benefit of Deleah, meekly counting the stitches of the Madonna lily, which when worked in beads, grounded in amber silk and framed in gold, would be converted into a screen, to hang on the marble mantelpiece in the Cashelthorpe drawing-room.

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann

Deleah, dropped by the Forcus carriage at the private door in Bridge

Mrs. Day's Daughters Mary E. Mann