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"I'm afraid you'll have to wait till quite a little later on, Noble. That one is poor Mr. Ridgely's. I promised him I wouldn't " "Then can I cut in on the next one after that?" "It's Mr. Clairdyce's," said Julia and she blushed. "My goodness!" said Noble. "Oh, my goodness!" "Sh! I'm afraid people " "Let's go out on the porch," said Noble, whose manner had suddenly become desperate.
He put his hands in and out of his pockets; was bidden to hold them still, also not to shuffle his feet; and when in a false assumption of ease he would have scratched his head Miss Ridgely's severity increased, so that he was compelled to give over the attempt.
Ridgely's exploration drew attention to the records, might have been said to have shrunk from all notice of the present generation, and to be fast falling a prey to the tooth of time and the visit of the worm. A few years more of neglect and the ill usage of careless custodians, and it would have passed to that depository of things lost upon the earth, which fable has placed in the moon.
And so, amongst all these disorders, it has fallen out that the full development of the State history has been rendered impossible. Mr. Ridgely's foray, however, into this domain of dust and darkness has happily rescued much useful matter to aid the future chronicler in supplying the deficiency of past attempts to trace the path of our modest annals through these silent intervals.
Ridgely says the problem's settling down; I believe him. Ridgely's no more of a fool in his line than you and Dad are in your own lines, and Ridgely's business is healing mental wounds. We agreed some while back that the Pirate must be insane, even before we met him. "We also agreed that he had a tremendously competent and creative mind.
But the President merely reiterated, somewhat curtly, that he knew nothing about it. I became a little annoyed, finally losing my temper. "I don't care a damn whether you appoint him or not," I exclaimed; "Ridgely's a Democrat, anyhow." Thereupon his attitude quickly changed, and he inquired about Ridgely, listening with interest to what I had to say.
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