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He made a great effort to forget himself, however, and gently opening the chamber door, asked if he could be of use. "You can, Sir, if you think yourself able," replied Mr Everett. "I believe we may trust you, for you are aware of the importance of self-command just now. I advise you to take a glass of wine, and then go and speak to your friend, and we will call you when we want you."
I promised to visit him again the following summer, but he died before the promise was fulfilled. Dr. Edward Everett Hale is one of my very oldest friends. I have known him since I was eight, and my love for him has increased with my years.
A rare flash of intelligence and appreciation greeted her now from those fine eyes bent so scrutinizingly on her. "Tremendous facts!" he said. "Glorious possibilities! 'Himself hath said it. I claim kinship with you; I am an heir of the same inheritance." He held a hand to each, and they were cordially grasped. Then Dr. Everett proceeded to business.
Ann rose hastily to her feet. She was sorely tempted to fall into his arms. How handsome he looked, how strongly his eyes pleaded with her! But her vague fears and distrust held her back. She sank again to the chair. "No, no not just yet, Everett," she said. "I've loved you dearly; but I can't understand Fledra's disappearance. Oh, I I don't know how to meet Horace! He loved and trusted her so!"
As yet it was, politically, almost quiescent. And therefore Everett Wharton, whose sense of duty took him there, spent his afternoons either in the whist-room or at the billiard-table. The story of the Silverbridge row had to be told again, and was told nearly with the same incidents as had been narrated to the father.
Pennypoker next devoted herself to the task of civilization, and waged daily warfare with the Chinaman, in her endeavors to convert him to American ways and dress, and Calvinistic theology. "Old lady heap talkee; Wang Kum no care," he used to confide to Louise Everett, after an unusually long and tedious fray. "Wang min' Miss Lou; old lady too flesh."
"But if you won't come, Betty dear, I shan't wish to give the party," Meg Everett announced in a disappointed fashion. "With Polly and Esther not to be here, there are so few of our old Camp Fire circle anyhow. And you see I only wanted to have our club and a few of John's young men friends.
Cronk went to Everett Brimbecomb with the case, and I was notified this morning by Everett to give up the children." "Everett!" breathed Ann, disbelieving. "My Everett?" "Yes, your Everett, Ann. Don't, child, please don't! Ann, Ann, listen to me!... Yes, sit down.... Now wait!"
After excusing this witness, Cooley brought in copies of two city ordinances covering street speaking in Everett.
Everett rose also, and the two men faced each other for a long moment. "And you took the case?" Horace got out at last. "Yes, I took the case," Everett replied. "And yet you knew that Ann loved them?" "I was was sure that if you both understood " The speaker's hesitation brought forth an ejaculation from Shellington. "What are we to understand?"
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