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I was able to bear their reproaches with the superior good nature that springs from success, to point out why the American tradition to which they so fatuously clung was a things of the past. The habit of taking dinner with them at least once a week had continued, and their arguments rather amused me.

The eyes which burned apprehensive and terror-stricken, throughout the darkness of interminable nights, were none the less serene and regally assured by day. The groom, too, seemed rejuvenated by such a spirit as sometimes brings to autumn a summer quality more ardent than summer's own. At the end of his fiancée's doubtings, he fatuously told himself, had come conviction.

"You are getting what you have always wanted, aren't you?" I wondered in some trepidation whether by that word "always" she was making a deliberate reference to the past. "Always?" I repeated, rather fatuously. "Nearly always, ever since you have been a man." I was incapable of taking advantage of the opening, if it were one. She was baffling.

Stephen's that loudly dubbed his dispositions rash, presumptuous and silly; catch-halfpenny journalists at home and men of the stamp of Lord Grey might exploit their abysmal military ignorance in reckless criticism and censure of his operations; he knew what a passionate storm of anger and denunciation had arisen from the Opposition when he had been raised to the peerage some months earlier, after the glorious victory of Talavera, and how, that victory notwithstanding, it had been proclaimed that his conduct of the campaign was so incompetent as to deserve, not reward, but punishment; and he was aware of the growing unpopularity of the war in England, knew that the Government ignorant of what he was so laboriously preparing was chafing at his inactivity of the past few months, so that a member of the Cabinet wrote to him exasperatedly, incredibly and fatuously "for God's sake do something anything so that blood be spilt."

We talked of them, and of Clayton; for I wished to know how this grocer's boy, who went about masked with a mouth open a little fatuously, an insignificant face, goggles, and a hand-truck, himself of no account in a flat and unremarkable place aside from the press of life's affairs, had discovered there were hills to which he could lift his eyes after those humiliating interviews with Mr.

"Draw all right?" queried Captain Berrow?-a short, fat man of few ideas, who was the exulting owner of a bundle of them. "Beautiful," replied Captain Tucker, who had just made an excursion into the interior of his with the small blade of his penknife. "Why don't you keep smokes like these, landlord?" "He can't," chuckled Captain Berrow fatuously. "They're not to be 'ad money couldn't buy 'em."

"I know; I wrote it," boasted Sansome fatuously. The blood mounted her face, her fists clenched, she advanced several steps fearlessly. "I don't, quite understand," she repeated, in hard, crisp tones. "You wrote it? Isn't it true? What did you do such a thing for?" "To get you here, my dear, of course," rejoined Sansome gallantly. "I knew your puritanical scruples I love them every one but "

"You an' your girl. Damn you!" She noticed that two very drunken soldiers had been forced to the front, where they wobbled fatuously one of them was short and dark, the other was tall and weak of chin. Henry stepped forward and raised his hand. "Friends!" he said. The clamor faded into a momentary stillness, punctuated with mutterings.

She received this with a wondering, hesitating little smile. "I never dreamed that brothers could say such nice things to their sisters," she said, and he was aware of a deep, questioning look in her eyes. "They usually say them to other men's sisters." "Ah, but no other fellow happens to have you as a sister," he returned, fatuously. She laughed aloud at this, perhaps a little uncertainly.

A dead pause, which I improved by drawing her hand under my arm and imprisoning her little gray glove with my other hand. As she did not speak, I went on fatuously: "You don't need any preparation of gowns and shawls; you can buy your trousseau in London, if need be; and we'll settle on the ship, coming over, how and where we are to live in New York."