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If I knew the circumstances I might become nervous and I must retain my poise or we perish. Your autobiography for the past week or so would make a ripping narrative, but you'd better learn to forget. Our yesterdays are as nothing; it's tomorrow we've got to think about. Those Congdons are rather a picturesque lot as I catch them in cinema flashes.
"Please don't scorn the ice cream; you will find it very refreshing. As you were saying " "If I hadn't been warned by Ruth that you were to be trusted in this business I should begin screaming. How did you know the child's name? What do you know about the Congdons?" Let my imagination play on your confession. You were trying to find Mrs.
She was still the most wonderful girl he had ever met, the more remarkable for the fact that now she had gone he had not the slightest idea of what had brought her into the strange world inhabited by the quarreling and fleeing Congdons. But men had suffered before for love of woman and he would bear his martyrdom manfully, keeping the humiliating interview carefully from the Governor.
But she made herself as lovely as she could for Ben's sake and for the sake of the Congdons with whom they were to dine. "We are to be alone," Lee had 'phoned, "for I want to talk with you like a Dutch aunt." Alice knew as well as if Lee had spoken it what was coming. They were going to protest against Ben's intimacy with the Haneys. And as soon as they were in their carriage she warned Ben.
And certainly if he should tell all he knew of the Congdons and Isabel, and wind up by acknowledging that it was he who had been in the Bailey Harbor house on the night of the shooting, Congdon would probably be so frightened that he would run away in terror to seek police protection. Congdon, unaware of his companion's perturbation, rose and suggested a walk to freshen them up before train time.
Here again she was of the spirit that lifts the self-made man. The Congdons had been most generous of letters of introduction, and in addition to those to Mrs. Brent and the Mosses, Bertha was in possession of two or three envelopes addressed to people in New York City, presumably artists also, as they bore the names of certain studios.
You belong with people like the Congdons and the Mosses whilst I am only an old broken-down skate. I'm worse than you know. I went down to Sibley first with hell in me heart towards you, but that soon passed away I loved ye as a man should love the girl he marries and I love ye now as I love the saints.
"There's one comfort: it isn't a matter of money. If it were, where would the Congdons be?" "No, it isn't really a matter of money, and in a certain sense it isn't a matter of brains. It's a question of " "Savoir faire." "Precisely. You haven't a cent, so you say frequently " Congdon stopped him, gravely. "I owe you fifty I was just going down into my jeans to pay it, when I suddenly recalled "
They been comin' here a long time and usually came earlier and stayed later than anybody else. I don't know nothin', mind ye, but there's talk she had trouble with her husband." "You mean Mr. and Mrs. Congdon have separated?" "I'm sayin' nothin'! But the Congdons are all queer. His pap used to have a house here and he was the worst ole crank on the shore. Young Putney's a pretty decent fellow.
You're the first hobo I ever saw who could do a day's work without cryin'." The queer ways of the Congdons had not been referred to between them until the third evening, when they took counsel of their tobacco apart from the other men, sprawling on the grass in a friendly intimacy that Archie found flattering.
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