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Wollaston shot a sidelong glance at her, and she felt it, although she did not see it. Gladys Mann leaned over her shoulder. "Say," she whispered, "Wollaston Lee is jest starin' at you!" Maria gave a little, impatient shrug of her shoulders, although a blush shot over her whole face, and Gladys saw distinctly the back of her neck turn a roseate color.
"I saw more than that," said the other gravely, "and I see more than that now. Suppose you have a double, and suppose that double is working in collusion with your enemies." Frank shook his head wearily. "My dear friend," he said, with a little smile, "I am tired of supposing things. Come and dine with me." But Mr. Mann had another engagement. Moreover, he wanted to think things out.
Mann even read aloud the first two acts, instructing and advising as he went along, so that the girls could gain some general idea of what was expected of them. Before they were finished another point came up. There was a single character in the play that had not been accorded to any girl.
Mann went below; and there were no more interruptions for that day. But trouble was in the air, and on the following day the climax came. Richard was alone in the stock-room, Frank having just gone below on business. There was a clatter on the stairs, and turning to see what was the matter Richard confronted Earle Norris.
But I think I can find my way anywhere quick enough, if you wish to send me on an errand," he added, thinking Mr. Mann might possibly have some commission for him to execute. "No doubt you could," replied the gentleman dryly. "But I don't wish to send you anywhere. You are an orphan, I believe. Where do you live?" "I board with the Massanets." "Does Norris board with them, too?" "No, sir."
"I cannot describe to your lordship," wrote Jervis himself, "the disappointment my ambition and zeal to serve my country have suffered by this diminution of my force; for had Admiral Mann sailed from Gibraltar on the 10th of October, the day he received my orders, and fulfilled them, I have every reason to believe the Spanish fleet would have been cut to pieces.
A large coal stove in front room furnishes heat. In recent years electricity has supplanted the overhead oil lamp. Most of the furnishings were purchased in early married life. They are somewhat worn but arranged in orderly manner and are clean. Mrs. Mann is tall and angular. Her hair is streaked with gray, her face thin, with eyes and cheek bones dominating.
The letter, therefore, admonished Mann, if he thought the Indians would give any trouble, to go up the south side of Red River as far as the Pan-handle of Texas, and then turn north to the government trail at Fort Elliot.
Young Dalton Mann, representing the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, raised his hand and snapped his fingers at the auctioneer. "And a hundred thousand!" he shouted. "And a hundred thousand!" Matt Peasley retorted. "And fifty thousand!" Mann flung back at him. Matt Peasley eyed his antagonist belligerently. "That's doing very well for a young fellow," Searles complimented the last bidder.
Yet, though he wrote so abusively about her, he concerned himself with a new edition of the Court Poems, though with what right has never transpired. "I have lately had Lady Mary Wortley's Ecloques published; but they don't please, though so excessively good," he wrote to Sir Horace Mann, November 24, 1747. "I say so confidently, for Mr.
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