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"My dear," she told my mother, "when she told me she had broken that engagement, I was astounded! But I can't say I wasn't pleased. Laurence is a dear boy; and his family's as good as ours no one can take that away from the Maynes. But Mary Virginia should have done better. "I quarreled with her, argued with her, pleaded with her. I cried and cried.
He did not know that the last census showed that eighty per cent. of the boys had been born abroad in camp, cantonment, or upon the high seas; or that seventy-five per cent. were sons of officers in one or other of the services Willoughbys, Paulets, De Castros, Maynes, Randalls, after their kind looking to follow their fathers' profession.
No one who came in contact with him escaped this; it seemed to crackle electrically in the air around him; he was a sort of human thought-conductor, and he shocked many a smug and self-satisfied citizen into horrific life before he had done with him. If this young man had not been one of the irreproachable Maynes Appleboro might have set him down as a pestilent and radical theorist and visionary.
The Maynes used to pet the children and play the piano to them when they were at the inn, and had been very good to Jim also when he was there alone with his father before the family arrived. Their manners were gentle and caressing, and they did their best to win their way into Mrs. Caldwell's good graces, but at first she coldly repulsed them, which hurt Beth very much.
But fortunately for us and himself he was a Mayne; and the Maynes have been from the dawn of things Carolinian "a good family." I don't think I have ever seen two people so mutually delight in each other's powers as did John Flint and Laurence Mayne.
Caldwell's manner; explaining her coldness by the fact that she was English, and flattering her, until finally they won their way into her good graces, and so effectually too, that when they brought a young magpie in a basket for Beth one day, her mother graciously allowed her to accept it. Beth liked the Maynes, but now as they came up the road she slid from the window-seat.
And we've brought a piece of music for Miss Mildred, if she will accept it for a keepsake." Mrs. Caldwell shook hands with them, but she could not speak; and the coach drove on. The days when she had thought the two Miss Maynes presumptuous for young women in their position seemed a long way off to her as she sat there, sobbing, but grateful for this last act of kindly feeling.
The boy was now, in his last high school year, planning to study law all the Maynes took to law as a duck to water. Brave, simple-hearted, direct, clear-thinking, scrupulously honorable, this was one of the diamonds used to cut the rough hard surface of Slippy McGee.
15th. Up betimes, and after talking with my father awhile, I to my office, and there hard at it till almost noon, and then went down the river with Maynes, the purveyor, to show a ship's lading of Norway goods, and called at Sir W. Warren's yard, and so home to dinner.
The Maynes, however, did not at all understand that they were being repulsed. A kindly feeling existed among all classes in those remote Irish villages. The squire's family, the doctor's, clergyman's, draper's, and innkeeper's visited each other, and shook hands when they met. There was no feeling of condescension on the one hand, or of pretension on the other; but Mrs.
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