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Bennie watched the words as the electrician's pencil scrawled along on the paper. "Waiting for you. Why don't you send? "They must have called us before while the discharge was running down," muttered Atterbury. "I think we can send with the condenser now." He picked up the scrap of yellow paper, read it over, and threw out into space the message which he did not understand. "O. K. Wait.
By the way, Stephen Atterbury always had such a respect for your father's opinions " "My father was not an Abolitionist, sir," said Stephen, smiling. "Quite right, quite right," said Mr. Cluyme. "But I am not sure, since I have come here, that I have not some sympathy and respect for the Abolitionists." Mr. Cluyme gave a perceptible start.
By Grandpa Silas Atterbury, the well-known author and writer for young people." His glance toward his brother at the close was meant to betray the consciousness of his own superiority to one who dallied sensuously with created objects.
I stopped in on my way to the office." "Sit down," said the rector. Mr. Atterbury sat down, but with the air of a man who does so under protest, who had not intended to. He was visibly filled and almost quivering with an excitement which seemed to demand active expression, and which the tall clergyman's physical calm and self-possession seemed to augment. For a moment Mr.
"Do new girls ever win the Buffalo Robe?" she asked in a voice which she tried hard to make sound disinterested. "Yes, certainly," replied Miss Judith. "Peggy Atterbury was a new girl last year, and the girl who won it the year before last was a new girl also." Her doubt thus removed, Agony returned to her pleasant day dream with greater longing than ever.
Yes, Atterbury was right; it behooveth the gaily clad treasurer and the pearly pated president and the rugged vice-president of the Golconda Gold Bond and Investment Company to go away real sudden and quick that their days might be longer upon the land. Me and Buck hurries down to the office.
And there was her father, with all his ability and genius, couldn't see it either, but fondly imagined that Alison as Gordon Atterbury's wife, would magically become an Atterbury and a bourgeoise, see that the corners were dusted in the big house, sew underwear for the poor, and fast in Lent." "And she is happy where she is?" he inquired somewhat naively. "She is self-sufficient," said Mrs.
Dean Atterbury had knowledge of it, Lady Castlewood said, and Esmond very well knows how: that divine being the clergyman for whom the late lord had sent on his death-bed: and when Lady Castlewood would instantly have written to her son, and conveyed the truth to him, the Dean's advice was that a letter should be writ to Colonel Esmond rather; that the matter should be submitted to his decision, by which alone the rest of the family were bound to abide.
Anthony's got the fever to-night, and there's a poor family down in the village as have all got it, Dennis says; and I noticed that little Nellie Atterbury had monstrous red cheeks when Dick and I passed her to-night, and indeed I crossed the street to avoid her in case she might be going to have the fever too. Where one has a family one has duties one would never feel for one's self.
It took time to thread the constantly increasing crowd in the hallways, the corridors, and on the stairs, but they finally reached the group in which Mrs. Davis was receiving the confused salutations of the throng at the drawing-room door. As soon as this formality was ended, Rosa whisked Dick in one direction while Mrs. Atterbury asked Jack to take her to the library.
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