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"Well, my wife and children get what they call quiet. I guess a month of it would use me up. She says if I had a place here I'd like it. Perhaps so. You are very comfortably fixed, Miss Eschelle." "It does very well for us, but something more would be expected of Mr. Hollowell. We are just camping-out here.
"Oh, the way things go on the steeple-chasing and fox-hunting, and the carts, and the style of the swell entertainments. Is that ill-natured?" "Not at all. I like candor, especially English candor. But there is Miss Eschelle." Carmen drove up with Count Crispo, threw the reins to the groom, and reached the ground with a touch on the shoulder of the count, who had alighted to help her down.
"What do you mean, Carmen?" asked Margaret, startled. "Why, that is the road Mr. Henderson is in." "Yes, I know, dear. There were too many in it." "Isn't it safe?" said Margaret, turning to Hollowell. "A great deal more solid than it was," he replied. "It is part of a through line. I suppose Miss Eschelle found a better investment." "One nearer home," she admitted, in the most matter-of-fact way.
Miss Eschelle says that she is thoroughly American in her tastes." "Then her tastes are not quite conformed to her style. That girl might be anything Queen of Spain, or coryphee in the opera ballet. She is clever as clever. One always expects to hear of her as the heroine of an adventure." "Didn't you say you knew her in Europe?" "No. We heard of her and her mother everywhere.
"We are glad to see a friend of Mr. Henderson's," she said, "and of Mr. Lyon's also. Mr. Lyon has told us much of your charming country home. Who is that pretty girl in your box, Mr. Fairchild?" Miss Eschelle had her glass pointed at Margaret as I gave the desired information. "How innocent!" she murmured. "And she's quite in the style isn't she, Mr.
Yes, the world was larger, larger, by one, and it would seem large her image came to him distinctly if she were the only one. Henderson was under the spell of this evening when the next, in response to a note asking him to call for a moment on business, he was shown into the Eschelle drawing-room.
You just throw in a college now and then to keep us quiet, but you owe it to the country to show the English that a democrat can have as fine a house as anybody." "I call that real patriotism. When I get rich, Miss Eschelle, I'll bear it in mind." "Oh, you never will be rich," said Carmen, sweetly, bound to pursue her whim. "You might come to me for a start to begin the house.
"You seem to be in a brown study," said Carmen, who came up, leaning on the arm of the Earl of Chisholm. "I'm lost in admiration. You must make allowance, Miss Eschelle, for a person from the country." "Oh, we are all from the country. That is the beauty of it. There is Mr. Hollowell, used to drive a peddler's cart, or something of that sort, up in Maine, talking with Mr.
It's big enough. I've seen the plan of it. Henderson Hall, they are going to call it. I suggested Margaret Henderson Hall, but she wouldn't have it." "What is it for?" "One end of it is scientific, geological, chemical, electric, biological, and all that; and the other end is theological. Miss Eschelle says it's to reconcile science and religion." "She's a daisy-that girl.
It was therefore arranged that after a visit to Brandon she should pass the warm months with the Arbusers in their summer home at Lenox, with a month the right month in the Eschelle villa at Newport; and he hoped never to be long absent from one place or the other.