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Together, Catharine and her affianced made a couple equal to the fullest destiny, and they won praise without envy from all. "It is a happy fortuity," said Judge Dunlevy, putting aside his glass; "Catharine's marriage to a worthy man, native to my own part of the country; Arthur's induction into national life; and hard-working Jabel Blake's final triumph with his bank!
Jabel's unfeeling remark gave MacNair no apparent pain; but he said: "Jabel, don't speak to Elk about father. He is not as patient as he should be, and perhaps in Washington they disguise some of the matters which we treat bluntly and openly. There's Kitty Dunlevy, you know, and she is a little proud." The glazed, whitish eye of Jabel bore the similitude of a beam of satisfaction.
Jabel's glassy eyes shone, and his mouth unclosed like a smile in a fossil pair of jaws. "It's the nighest I ever come to being paid for my investment in Arty and Elk," he said, "to get sech a compliment from Judge Dunlevy!
Say, boys, I wish you fellers'd come over t' my stick horse livery stable honest I got the best hickory horse you ever see. Whoa, there whoa now, I tell you. You Pilliken Dunlevy let me harness you; there, put it under your arm, and back of your neck no I ain't go'n' to let you hold it I'll jerk the tar out of you if you don't go. Whe-e-e that's the way to go, hol hold on, whoa there. Back up.
His dark goatee, eyes, and hair, were set in a face unusually pale and intense, and his manly and refined worldly bearing suited his associations. Kate Dunlevy, with her charms of bloom, repose, and stateliness, looked like the wife of such a public man. "Elk," said she, "you do not seem to be at ease to-day.
"It took many a grunt to make the money," said Jabel Blake, "and it's natural to growl at the loss of it." By this time they had come to the street, and there in a livery barouche were the superb broad shoulders, fringed from above with fleece-white hair, of Judge Dunlevy.
But the free clansmen of Ulidia, though surprised, were not intimidated. Under their lord Rory, son of Dunlevy, they rallied to expel the invader. Cardinal Vivian, the Papal Legate, who had just arrived from Man and Scotland, on the neighbouring coast, proffered his mediation, and besought de Courcy to withdraw from Down.
"General," he said, "I claim the privilege of a guardian over you boys over your brother in particular, who is a true man and an obstinate one. I know the matter of your difference. If you do not yield, Arthur MacNair will keep his word! You will be exposed on the floor of Congress, exactly as he promised, and your engagement with Kitty Dunlevy broken forever."
Judge Dunlevy was the beau ideal of Jabel Blake, as the one eminent local statesman of the region round Ross Valley the County Judge when Jabel was a child, the Supreme Justice of the State, and now a District Justice of the United States in a distant field.
The deepest wish in Jabel's heart, next to establishing a national bank in Ross Valley, was to see the marriage between Kate Dunlevy and the MacNair family brought to pass; yet such was his reverence for the Dunlevys and so great his antagonism to the Washington Lobby that he was half inclined to be himself the means of breaking off the match between the daughter of his great neighbor and exemplar and the son of his old chum and companion.
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