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But I'll tell you how the matter stands: you know Helen de Vaux and you were at the Springs, last summer, when she and Mr. Van Alstyne were there. Well, I say she was dead in love with him, though she did refuse him." "Was she?" replied Mr. Ellsworth. "Why, I know she was; it was as plain as a pike-staff to everybody who saw them together.
Fisher rejoined; "but the sight of her last night sent him off his head. Fisher, if I could get Paul Morpeth to paint her like that, the picture'd appreciate a hundred per cent in ten years." "By Jove, but isn't she about somewhere?" exclaimed Van Alstyne, restoring his glass with an uneasy glance. "No; she ran off while you were all mixing the punch down stairs. Where was she going, by the way?
Van Alstyne went off with some friends to the Isles of Shoals, and Alice and Adelaide Marchbanks went with her; so that we knew we should see nothing of the two great families for a good many days; and when Leslie came, or the Haddens, we did not so much mind; besides, they knew that we were busy, and they did not expect any "coil" got up for them.
"And why did the house doctor go?" "He ordered Mr. Moody to take his spring water hot. Mr. Moody's spring water has been ordered cold for eleven years, and I refused to change. It was between the doctor and me, Mr. Van Alstyne." "Oh, of course," he said, "if it was a matter of principle " He stopped, and then something seemed to strike him.
"Why, I had a splendid time!" cried Ruth, coming down upon them out of her cloud with flat contradiction. "And I'm sure I didn't play all the evening. Mrs. Van Alstyne sang Tennyson's 'Brook, aunt; and the music splashes so in it! It did really seem as if she were spattering it all over the room, and it wasn't a bit of matter!" "The time was so good, then, that it has made you sober," said Mrs.
Van Alstyne, who had a little bonnet, of black lace and nasturtiums, at this very time, that Martha Josselyn had made for her, was astonished to find that she was Mrs. Ingleside's sister and had come on to the marriage. General and Mrs. Ingleside Leslie's cousin Delight had come from their away-off, beautiful Wisconsin home, and brought little three-year-old Rob and Rob's nurse with them.
"I had no idea the trial would last so long; had you?" observed Mary Van Alstyne, as the three friends were sitting together waiting for that day's mail, which must at length bring them the important news. "Yes; grandpapa told me that it might possibly last a week." "I don't see why they cannot decide it sooner," said Jane; "anybody might know that sailor could not be William Stanley.
A number of friends and relatives of both parties were collected for the occasion; Mrs. Stanley, Robert Hazlehurst and his wife, the late Mrs. George Wyllys and her new husband, or as Harry called them, Mr. and Mrs. Uncle Dozie, the Van Hornes, de Vauxes, Bernards, and others. Mary Van Alstyne was bridesmaid, and Hubert de Vaux groomsman.
Sam, who had been going around in a black crepe dress all day, rushed out in pink satin with crystal trimming, and slippers with cut-glass heels. After the first rubber Mrs. Van Alstyne threw her cards on the floor and said another day like this would finish her. "Surely Dick is able to come now," she said, like a peevish child. "Didn't he say the swelling was all gone?"
Creighton and the two gentlemen entered Miss Wyllys's parlour, they only found there the Wyllyses themselves and Mary Van Alstyne, all of whom had already heard of Harry's threatened difficulties. Neither Miss Agnes nor Elinor had seen him since he had received the letters, and they both cordially expressed their good wishes in his behalf; for they both seemed inclined to Mr.
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