Crossword-Solution: TALBERT 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

She had me there, but I don't think my girl has made out so very poorly even as far as books are concerned.” Upon this invitation to praise her, I ventured to say, “A young lady of Miss Talbert's looks doesn't need much help from books.” I could see that what I had said pleased him to the core, though he put on a frown of disclaimer in replying, “I don't know about her looks.

Nobody ever said that Talbert had come unfairly into that, or that he had misused his money in buying men after he began to come into it in quantity.

Her husband was the junior member of the law firm which Talbert kept in his pay, to the exclusion of most other clients, and he was a very good fellow, so far as I knew, with the modern conception of his profession which, in our smaller towns and cities, has resulted in corporation lawyers and criminal lawyers, and has left to a few aging attorneys the faded traditions and the scanty affairs of the profession.

Talbert's son is in the business with him, and will probably succeed him in it; but it is well known in the place that he will never be the man his father is, not merely on account of his college education, but also on account of the easy temperament, which if he had indulged it to the full would have left him no better than some kind of artist.

Talbert duly called after We came to Eastridge, and when my wife had self-respectfully waited a proper time, which she made a little more than a week lest she should feel that she had been too eager for the acquaintance, she returned the call.