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"I have told mamma about her, and I brought her in one afternoon to see the pictures, she's very fond of pictures, and mamma asked her to stay to luncheon, but she couldn't." "And now it is you who are going to make the first visit, going to sunsets and tea on McVane Street!" "Laura!
The spirited horse that young Jack Brooks drove held his attention so completely at that moment that he had no time to bestow upon anything else; but when he was well out on the broad, clear roadway of the "Neck," he turned to his sister, and asked, "What did Kitty Grant; mean by your going to take tea with a girl who lives on McVane Street?"
Laura sometimes in these days blazed up with indignation and disgust as she noted the sudden attentions that were bestowed upon Esther and her mother. No one now spoke of emigrants and foreigners in connection with these dwellers on McVane Street.
"'That sense and worth o'er a' the earth May bear the prize and a' that; "and yet now, now " "But, my dear child," as Laura here broke down with a little sob, "my dear child, it isn't that these people are poor, it is because we don't know anything about them." "I I think it is because you do know that that they live on McVane Street," faltered Laura.
He would never forget the last time he had seen Carmin Fanchet's eyes great, black, glorious pools of gratitude as they looked at grizzled old McVane; blazing fires of venomous hatred when they turned on him. And he had said to McVane, "The man pays, the woman goes justice indeed is blind!" McVane, not being a stickler on regulations when it came to Carrigan, had made no answer.
In delicate matters it was seldom that McVane did not take him into consultation. He possessed an almost uncanny grip on the working processes of a criminal mind, and the first rule he had set down for himself was to regard the acts of omission rather than the one outstanding act of commission.
"Steady now, men, back her a little!" said the mate, who was afraid of being caught on an ebbing tide, "overboard with you, Lambert, and you McVane, and help the ladies ashore." But a pair of strong arms came over the side and grasped Patsy. "No need," said the Poor Scholar, "I know exactly where to land and "
Laura!" called a voice here; and Laura looked up, to see her brother Jack in his T-cart pulling up at the curbstone. The next minute she was whirling off with him, bowing good-by to Kitty; and Kitty was calling after her mischievously, "Laura, Laura, tell your brother you are going to take tea with a girl who lives on McVane Street!"
Nothing could be more absurd. Esther was a New England girl, if ever there was one, a little New England girl, who had come up with her mother to Boston from the Cape perhaps to learn to be a teacher. Yes, that must be the explanation of McVane Street. The Bodns were people who had come up from the country, and country people of small means wouldn't be likely to know where to choose a home."
The incident came back vividly to David as he waited for the promised coming of Bateese. He began to appreciate McVane's point of view, and it was comforting, because he realized that his own logic was assailable. If McVane had been comparing the two women now, he knew what his argument would be.
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