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I did tell her that since she yes, I remember now since she was to be out of town all day, I would wait until to-morrow to bring her a book she wanted to borrow." "Oh! And then she wanted to know who told you she would be out of town all day, didn't she?" Abbott reflected deeply, then said with triumph, "Yes, she did. I remember that, too.
"If that's your opinion of the Union," said McGrath sullenly, "it might be interesting to hear your opinion of me." "You are perfectly welcome to it," replied the Lieutenant-Governor easily. "I consider you an unmitigated blackguard!" Governor Abbott tipped back his chair and looked at McGrath. "That's pretty plain talk," he said. "You see how it is, Mr. McGrath.
The servant who opened the small door in the great iron-studded double gate, though he knew Charles Abbott well, was uncommunicative to the point of rudeness. He refused to say who of the family were at home; he intimated that, in any case, Charles would not be seen, and he attempted to close him out. Charles, however, ignoring the other's protests, forced his way into the arch on the patio.
"Or a more thoroughly worked pack," added the captain, in a condoling manner. "Well, we are not all perfect, and I hope Mrs. Abbott will cheer up and look at this matter in a gayer point of view. For myself I hold that a skipping-rope is worse than the Jack of spades, Sundays or week days. Commodore, we shall see no pickerel to-day, unless we tear ourselves from this good company."
Among the other pioneers were preachers like Washington Gladden and Lyman Abbott, who conceived their duty as that of mediators between the business class and the wage earning class, exhorting the former to deal with their employes according to the Golden Rule and the latter to moderation in their demands.
Courtlandt's unexpected appearance in Bellaggio had also created a suspicion which he could not minutely define. The truth was, when a man loved, every other man became his enemy, not excepting her father: the primordial instinct has survived all the applications of veneer. So, Abbott was not at all pleased to see his friend that morning. At length Courtlandt returned to the lounge.
He was becoming so used to the unvarying statement that Abbott would be up after dinner, that his reply was by now purely mechanical. "She's getting her voice back all right; eh?" "Beautifully! But I really don't think she ought to sing at the Haines' villa Sunday." "One song won't hurt her. She's made up her mind to sing. There's nothing for us to do but to sit tight. No news from Paris?" "No."
He followed her mechanically, too absorbed in her revelation to think of the cards left forgotten on the bridge. From their scene of good wishes, Fran went first, head erect, arms swinging defiantly; Abbott followed, not knowing in the least what to say, or even what to think.
His wife nodded her acquiescence with the plan proposed. "Ellis, can you handle those two big trunks alone?" "Yes, Guv'nor. I'm a leetle bit heavier built than Abbott." Quincy drew Alice's attention to the Eagle Hotel. "There's where we hatched the plot that downed Mr. Obadiah Strout, when he was an enemy of mine.
He had surrendered Nelly Abbott to a claimant and stood watching the swirl and glide of the dancers in the Granada one night. His eyes were on the brilliance a little below the raised area at one end of the floor, and so was his mind, inquiringly, with the curious concentration of which his mind was capable. Presently he became aware of some one speaking to him, tugging at his elbow.
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