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He had heard his father speak so contemptuously of English people that he was almost afraid to ask him for permission to accept Ninian's invitation. He wondered how he would explain his father's refusal to Ninian who was so kind.... But his fears were not warranted, for Mr. Quinn replied to his letter, urging him to accept the invitation. "Enjoy yourself," he wrote.
Rachel, with fine understanding, insisted that they should dine alone, although they urged her to join them. "I say, you chaps," Ninian said to them, "you might go and see my mater sometimes. She'd be awfully glad. Quinny, you haven't been to Boveyhayne for centuries. ... If you'd go, now and then, you'd cheer the mater up. She's awfully down in the mouth about me going!"
"Well," said Roger, turning away from the window and feeling for his watch, "I must be off. So long, Ninian!" He went out of the room quickly and in a little while, Ninian heard the street door banging behind him. "Damn," he said to himself, "I've just remembered what I was going to say to him!" He had finished his breakfast and left the house before Gilbert and Henry came down from their rooms.
"Say, by George, I never thought of that before! There's no telling whether a man's married or not, by his name!" "It don't matter," said Lulu. "Why not?" "Not so many people want to know." Again he laughed. This laughter was intoxicating to Lulu. No one ever laughed at what she said save Herbert, who laughed at her. "Go it, old girl!" Ninian was thinking, but this did not appear.
Gilbert nodded his head. "That old Tunnel of his doesn't get itself built, does it? But it must be great fun building a railway in a place like that. There's a revolution on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, and the President of the Republic and the Emperor of the Empire are in power for a fortnight and in exile for another one. So Ninian says.
We didn't even know she'd got a husband. Her name was Jennifer. I saw it on the coffin lid!..." Their arrangements for quitting the house were not completed for a month after the burial of Mrs. Clutters, and before they finally settled their affairs, Ninian was told that he was to proceed to South America with the junior partner.
In 1839 Miss Mary Todd, who had been born in Lexington, Kentucky, December 13, 1818, came to Springfield to stay with her sister, Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards. The Western biographers describe her as "gifted with rare talents," as "high-bred, proud, brilliant, witty," as "aristocratic" and "accomplished," and as coming from a "long and distinguished ancestral line."
"We'll have tea in a minute or two. Mother's lying down. She's not very well!" She would have said as much to a casual acquaintance, Henry thought. "Not well!" he heard Ninian saying. "What's the matter with her?" "She's tired. I think she's got a headache. There was a letter from Uncle Peter!" Mary answered, and her tone indicated that the letter from Uncle Peter accounted for everything.
Now Robert Semple and Ninian Halliburton were two worthy citizens of Dumfries, men of respectability, well provided for by the success of their trade and the saving nature of their wives.
"Good-night, Henry!" she replied. "I hope you'll sleep well." And then she turned to kiss Ninian, who pushed a sleepy face against hers. In the morning, there were fried plaice for breakfast, and Henry ate two of them. "These are some of the fish you saw on the beach last night," said Mrs. Graham. "Oh, yes," said Henry, reaching for the toast, and swallowing a mouthful of the fish.
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