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He welcomed Neckart boisterously, shaking hands with him again and again before he turned to Jane, who stood watching him with delighted eyes. "How well you are looking this afternoon, father! Your cheeks are as red as a girl's!" "Oh, I'm all right! Don't bother about me. Think of other people sometimes, child.
A wife and children are the very influences you need to soften and broaden your aims. Yes, I know I'm speaking plainly. But have you never thought of it?" Mr. Neckart did not reply for a few moments. "It is impossible that I should ever marry," he said gravely. "There is an obstacle which would make it simply criminal in me. I never think of it."
Neckart remembered at last the purpose of his visit in the morning. "Surely something can be done to compel Laidley to leave the property to its rightful owners. Have you stated the case to him plainly?" he asked. "I? State it? Now, Bruce, how could I? If I were not the one to be benefited by it, I'd put it to him forcibly enough. But as it is No, I've not the moral courage for that."
Even if she had remembered that she could never be his wife, it would not have troubled her. He loved her! She thought no more of marriage than the bird in its first song of dawn thinks of the barred lines and visible notes to which its music might somewhere be written down. Neckart followed her up the steps and into the wide hall, carrying his hat behind him in his hand.
Yet I have a queer fancy that if the reins were once taken off he could not master himself again. It must be devilishly uncomfortable, holding one's self in in that way," the last morsel of quail sliding down his throat unctuously. "I can let myself out without danger." "Why, you eat nothing! The campaign's been too much for you, Mr. Neckart," he said aloud.
Neckart to-night how the shoemaker Twiss, who used to live or starve in the alley back of their garden, was here as head-gardener; and how capitally that consumptive sempstress, Nichols, managed the dairy and was growing quite fat at the work; and how that boy in the stable, whom Neckart had brought from the printing-office, where he was going headlong to the devil, had really turned out the best of fellows.
It rose to a full orchestra as the two human listeners sat motionless, though only a few notes were familiar to Neckart the tic-tic of the grasshoppers, the low monotone of countless unseen springs escaping under the grass, the lone call of the thrush, a single minor note from a golden bugle.
"Thinking the matter over," pursued the judge anxiously, "it has occurred to me that Laidley would not have been so confident of Van Ness's ultimate concurrence in the scheme unless Pliny had shown some prepossession in favor of the little girl." "You think, then, the sultan is ready to throw the handkerchief?" dryly. "Oh, that's a coarse way of putting it, Neckart.
It must be a careful, cautious, slow matter. He might surely claim so much of a guardianship over her! He had studied her character very carefully, and appreciated it as a rare and delicate one; and he was very fond of the captain very fond of the captain. But as for the plan of marriage Mr. Neckart understood his own disgust at the judge, and accounted for it naturally.
My work is very light, but I do not like to work at all. And here the beach is silent and the sky blue and the sea rolls rolls all day long: it is like coming home after one has been out on the streets." "About as keen comprehension of Nature as the tree yonder," thought Neckart contemptuously.
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