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Carr was dressed well in a loose serge suit; he wore high-topped tan boots; his soft shirt was of good silk; his personality exuded both means and importance. He glanced at Longstreet and looked twice or three times as long at Longstreet's daughter. Helen was quite used to that, and it was for no particular reason that she felt her colour heighten a little.
He appeared fascinated. "See how it works?" she went on. "You see one hundred and twenty-five millimeters is the normal pressure. Kitty Carr is absolutely abnormal. I do not know, but I think that she suffers from periodical attacks of vertigo. Almost all kleptomaniacs do. During an attack they are utterly irresponsible." Drummond was looking at the thing carefully.
There was just sufficient meaning in the latter part of the remark for his cousin to forbear to reply to it. He continued to gaze out of the window and to smoke slowly. "Not being as rich as Croesus or you," resumed Carr, regarding him from beneath lowered lids, "I paddle my own canoe down the stream of Time, and, tying it to my friends' door-posts, go in to eat their dinners."
Helen was already seated within, smiling, looking placid and unconcerned. 'By then, she announced lightly, 'I'll be gone; so it won't matter. 'Gone? he demanded sharply. 'Where? 'East. Mr. Carr has gone on ahead. We are to meet him in New York. He sat down upon a rock just outside her door and made no attempt to hide what was in his heart.
They shone on Christopher Carr when he came home from the war. He was a friend of her husband. Or rather, as a student in the medical school, he had listened to the lectures of the older man, and had made up his mind to know him personally, and had thus, by sheer persistence, linked their lives together. Anne had never met him.
Sam Carr held his peace, toying with the long-stemmed glass in his hand. "I went to a Belgian Relief Fund lecture in the Granada ballroom this afternoon," she said at last. "A Belgian woman a refugee spoke in broken English. The things she told. It was horrible. I wonder if they could be true?" "Atrocities?" Carr questioned. Sophie nodded. "That's propaganda," her father declared judicially.
Carr, in a decided tone. Then, seeing that Elsie's lip was trembling, and her eyes were full of tears, he continued: "Don't look so woeful, Pussy. Alexander shall drive out for you; but if you want to stay longer, you may send him back with a note to say what day you would like to have him come again. Will that do?" "Oh, yes!" said Elsie, wiping her eyes; "that will do beautifully, papa.
At that moment Howard would have been glad than otherwise to have Jim Courtot present himself. 'Let him start something, damn him, he growled savagely to himself, 'any time. And he began wondering if now John Carr were sitting with Helen and her father in front of their little home?
Halsey W. Wilson, its recording secretary, was sent by the National Association to assist the State Executive Board during the legislative session. A bill introduced by Senator Carr of Caledonia to repeal the Municipal suffrage act was promptly defeated. Effort was now concentrated on the Presidential suffrage bill, which was introduced January 14.
If there wasn't a single thing there except the theatres, I'd jump at it. You can go to a different show every night of your life, Cousin Fanny." "I have never been inside of a theatre in my life. You ought to know me better than to think it," replied Mrs. Carr, while the corners of her mouth drooped.
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