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On the contrary, two windows in the rented sitting-room were open, and Miss Carlisle Heth, laying down "Pickwick Papers," by Dickens, the well-known writer, now rose and flung wide the third. "Whew!" said she, just as an ordinary person might have done. "It's stifling!" Her mother, a lifelong conservative, presently replied: "It isn't the heat, it's the humidity."
Dalhousie, in short, was in the singular position of having to implore others to assure him that he hadn't done all these terrible things. And it appeared that Miss Carlisle Heth was the one person in the world who could possibly give him that assurance. So spoke the stranger.
Heth, but the Chairman of the Finance Committee, being in agreeable converse with fellow philanthropists, came home in Mrs. Byrd's car instead, after all. Accordingly she did not say to William, "Miss Carlisle decided not to come, Banks?" which she liked to call William for the English sound of it and Banks, or William, did not look respectfully surprised and say, "Yas'm, she came ..."
"I can only observe that you've thrown out a number of perfectly ripping suggestions already walking on the piazza, for example. Mightn't we steal that diversion from afternoon temporarily, don't you think? Perhaps Mrs. Heth would agree to pursue the missing breeze so far?" "That would be nice," said Carlisle. You could distinctly hear his thundering feet now....
"Cassandra is one of the institutions at Andover," said he; "most fellows have to take a course in Cassandra to complete their education." "Yours seems to be very complete," Cynthia retorted. "Great Scott!" he exclaimed, looking at her, "no wonder you made mince-meat of the Honorable Heth. Where did you learn it all, Cynthia?" Cynthia did not know.
Heth, craning her neck for the last time, perceived that Cally had decided not to come to the meeting; also that it was just as well, viewing the inclement weather. Downstairs, almost directly beneath her, Cally stood front to front with the family enemy, her face quite white.
Within it stood the tall stranger, rooted in his tracks. Then it seemed to occur to him that there was some misunderstanding; that at least, in his anxiety about his friend, he hadn't allowed sufficiently for the properly outraged feelings of the lady this so unreasonable-looking daughter of Mr. Heth of the Works, or his niece....
And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan. And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a buryingplace by the sons of Heth. And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
Worthington said never reached them; but the Honorable Heth on public days carried his voice of the Forum around with him. "Come on," said Cynthia, in one of those startling little tempers she was subject to; "don't stand there like an idiot." Then the voice of Mr. Sutton boomed toward them.
And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him, Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead. And Abraham stood up, and bowed himself to the people of the land, even to the children of Heth.
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