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'Have you been dreaming Madge? said Nan, again staring at her sister. 'What has put such monstrous things into your head? Mr. Hanbury at the Kenyons' and you would dance with him! 'Well, why not? said Madge, with a frown; for this difficulty about the letter-writing had clearly operated on her temper and made her impatient.
Al Bidwell took an unworthy delight in prodding the man who had been so severe upon him. "I beg humbly to suggest to the gent that there are plenty of places in the mountains where he can make a jump of a thousand feet or two into the kenyons. Wouldn't it be a good idee fur the gent to try it?" "I will if you'll join me," retorted Wade, turning upon him like a flash.
Letters of that kind are secret 'Oh, I don't care about that. I think it is stupid, said Madge at once. 'There is no use having any pretence about it. And I don't know in the world what to write about. Look, I have begun about the Kenyons' invitation, and asked him whether he'd mind my going. I like those little dances better than the big balls She held out the letter she had begun.
Of course, it's the wrong time; but there'll be a rush in spite of that. In short, we want you, and I managed to secure this railroad pass." I showed Aline the letter, and she said, "Why don't you go? I can stay with the Kenyons; they have often asked me. It would be splendid, wouldn't it, if you were to find a gold mine?" I nodded rather gravely.
'Oh, well, I suppose he does, in a kind of way, though he doesn't take much trouble about saying it. It isn't of much consequence; we shall have plenty of time afterwards. Mind, if only Jack Hanbury could get invited by the Kenyons, and I were to dance two or three times with him, and Frank get to hear of it, I suppose there would be a noble rampage: then he might speak out a little more.
'Madge, put these things out of your head. You won't go to the Kenyons', for Captain King would not like it 'I don't think he'd take the trouble to object, Madge interjected. 'And Mr. Hanbury won't be there; and there will be no dancing, and no quarrel. If you wish to write to Captain King about what will interest him, write about what interests yourself. That he is sure to be interested in
His horizon was a limited one; the practice of his profession, as he saw it carried on about him, was small and petty; but his mind could not be shackled. He saw the lions in the path plainly, but he also perceived the great opportunities which the law was to offer in the United States, and he prophesied that we, too, should soon have our Mansfields and Kenyons.
How can any one live in such a glorious country as this with the towering kenyons around him, with the mountains thousands of feet deep, with the grand sun kissin' the western tips in the morning and sinking to rest at night in the east, with the snow storms in summer and the blazing heat in winter with the glo "
'All the world isn't supposed to know about the Vice-Chancellor's warning. Why shouldn't he be invited by the Kenyons? And why should he know that I am going? And why, if we both happen to be there, shouldn't we dance together? Human beings are human beings, in spite of Vice-Chancellors. They can't lock up a man for dancing with you? At all events, they can't lock me up, even if Jack is there.
'He has never even thanked me for not going to the Kenyons' ball, said Madge, who appeared to imagine that Nan was responsible for everything Captain King did or did not do. 'Surely he would take it for granted you would not go! remonstrated the elder sister. 'But he takes everything for granted. And he scarcely ever thinks it worth while to speak to me.
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