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Then, turning to her father, she said, "Gran'pop, will ye and Jennie go into the kitchen for a while? I've some private business wid Mr. Babcock." When they were gone her whole manner changed. She buried her face for a moment in the pillow, covering her cheek with her hands; then, turning to Babcock, she said: "Now, me friend, will ye lock the door?"
Worst of all, his deed could not be excused on the grounds of necessity. He could have lived on ten thousand a year; he could have done without the million and more which was now his. He could have done without the society, the pleasures of which had always been a lure. He could have, but he had not, and he had complicated it all with the thought of another woman. Was she as good as Jennie?
Under dead leaves and snow-banks the delicate arbutus unfolds its simple blossom, answering some heavenly call for color. So, too, this other flower of womanhood. Jennie was left alone, but, like the wood-dove, she was a voice of sweetness in the summer-time.
He voted yes. Robert smiled. "I'm sure we'll get good results from this all around," he said. As construction work was soon to begin, Lester decided to move to Chicago immediately. He sent word for Jennie to meet him, and together they selected an apartment on the North Side, a very comfortable suite of rooms on a side street near the lake, and he had it fitted up to suit his taste.
There was just a glance, a pressure of hands, and that was all, but it seemed to mean ever so much to them. So after a short time I went away, and the bright sun was streaming down upon our poor, little, smelly Sweetapple Cove, that was really like a corner of Paradise. And now, Aunt Jennie, several more days have gone by, and John is getting stronger and stronger every hour.
We are going out to Moosepath: but this will explain everything, and more too," cried Mr. Montgomery, producing a neat-looking note, and passing it to the young lawyer, making a hasty exit to meet said horsemen friends from Sussex and the city. "I shall go to-morrow and stay over Sunday, at any rate," said Mr. Lawson to himself when he had gleaned the contents Of Jennie Montgomery's note.
This conversation took place in Job Stanton's little shoe-shop, only a rod distant from the small, plain house which he had occupied ever since he had been married. It was interrupted by the appearance of a pretty girl of fourteen, who, presenting herself at the door of the shop, called out: "Supper's ready, father." "So are we, Jennie," said Ben, promptly.
Then he quietly smoked his cigar and looked off in the moonlight, as though thinking of something of a different nature. It was natural that Jennie Whitney should be more impressed by the occurrence, with the memory of the recent tragedy crushing her to the earth. She exclaimed: "Larch Cadmus! Why, Fred, he has visited our house several times; he was here last week."
Before he had finished reading, the chug-chug from the Captain's power-boat floated in from the harbor, and the minister longed to be with him. Elizabeth Fox was sitting alone in her room when the familiar chug from the exhaust of the Jennie P. fell on her ears. She raised her window-curtain, and watched the dim lights move out of the harbor in the direction of the Sound.
Instead, however, of such a garden as they had expected to see, with fruits and flowers in borders and beds, and serpentine walks winding among them, as Jennie had imagined, the children found themselves in a sort of forest, the trees of which were planted regularly in rows, with straight walks here and there under them. "What a strange garden!" said Jennie. "Yes," said Rollo.
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