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I called on them one day and was coldly treated simply because I am your closest friend. Marguerite pointedly expressed her opinion of a woman who deserts a man because he has his faults. Think of this child's sitting in moral condemnation upon you! "The Hardages also of course you have no stancher friends than they are have stood up stubbornly for Rowan.
They had had their last drive and twilight was falling when they returned to the Hardages'. She was standing on the steps as she gave him both her hands. "Good-by," she said, in the voice of one who had finished her work. "I hardly know what to say I have said everything. Perhaps I ought to tell you my last feeling is, that you will make life a success, that nothing will pull you down.
His carriage was waiting for him and he entered it and went home. Some minutes later, Judge Morris came down and walked to the Hardages'. He rang and asked for Professor Hardage and waited for him on the door-step. When Professor Hardage appeared, he said to him very solemnly: "Get your hat." The two men walked away, the Judge directing their course toward the edge of the town.
"Then I shall have the pleasure of seeing you often." Isabel went up to her room as usual and summoned her maid, and ordered her carriage to be ready in half an hour. Half an hour later she came down and drove to the Hardages'. She showed no pleasure in seeing him again, and he no surprise in seeing her. "I have been expecting you," he said; "I thought you would be brought back by all this."
But Judge Morris had avoided her; the Hardages had avoided her; each member of the Meredith family had avoided her; Isabel had avoided her; even Harriet, when once she crossed the rooms to her, had with an incomprehensible flare of temper turned her back and sought refuge with Miss Anna. She was very angry.
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