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Altogether, when Winifred Child happened to think of Mrs. Belmont's building with the great figure of a woman falling down the front of it, she would have liked the statue to drop to earth with a crash. Once in a while, contriving to pass near, Ursus tried to whisper a word of encouragement: "You're a Wonderchild, you are! Say, it don't spoil your looks bein' tired.
'And the general's off to Scarborough, said Toole. 'Old Chattesworth! I thought it was to Bath. 'Oh, no, Scarborough; a touch of the old rheum, and stomach I sent him there; and he's away in the Hillsborough packet for Holyhead this morning, and Colonel Stafford's left in command. 'And my Lady Becky Belmont's superseded, laughed Miss Magnolia, derisively.
He rejoiced, too, at his own perspicacity in having so accurately divined the real cause of M. Belmont's misunderstanding.
At the same time the President of the International Suffrage Alliance said in London: "The suffrage movement in England- resembles a battle. It is cruel and tragic. Ours in America is an evolution-less dramatic, slow but more sure." Facts sustained Mrs. Belmont's prophecy. Facts did not sustain the other prediction. English women got the vote in 1918.
"Dear lady, oft in Belmont's hall, Whose mistress is so sweet and fair, Your humble slaves would gladly fall Upon their knees, and praise you there. "To offer you this little gift, Dear Portia, now we crave your leave, And let it have the grace to lift Our hearts to yours this Christmas eve.
It was all a pose, of course, but Rance Belmont, with his deadly gift of being able to make any impression he wished, made a wonderful success of the part he had all at once decided to play. Looking at him, Fred's smouldering jealousy burst into flame. There was an inarticulate sound in his throat, and striding forward he landed a smashing blow on Rance Belmont's averted face. "Oh, Fred!"
Slowly it all came to him, and stiff and sore, he got upon his feet. There were no signs of the twins, but to this Fred gave no thought; his only anxiety was for Evelyn, left alone on such a wild night. When he entered his own house with Rance Belmont's words ringing in his ears, he stood for a moment transfixed.
The two worthies mounted the stairs with noiseless steps, and pausing before Mrs. Belmont's chamber, Ragged Pete gave utterance to an awful groan. A stifled shriek from the interior of the room convinced them the inmates were awake and terribly frightened.
John Corbett advanced to the table and solemnly deposited the green box thereon; then with painstaking deliberation he arranged the contents of his pockets in piles. Rance Belmont's watch lay by itself; then the bills according to denomination; last of all the silver and a slip of brown paper with writing on it in lead-pencil.
It need not be said that M. Belmont's grief was also extreme, as we know the many reasons personal and political, on account of himself, his countrymen, and his daughter which he had to desire the success of the American cause. It was in vain for him to attempt concealing his emotion in the presence of Pauline. She immediately divined that something extraordinary had happened.
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