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"I don't hesitate to say to you that I regard him as but a small remove in nature from absolute trash, Phyllis absolute trash! His character may be good doubtless it is; but he is not of good family, and he shows it. What is he but a mountain cracker? There is no middle ground; trash is trash!" Colonel Mobley Sommerton spoke in a rich bass voice, slowly rolling his words.
The reply seemed to her so ungentlemanly, and so harsh, that, in her vexation and anger, she tore the letter to shreds and stamped her pretty foot with a vehemence which would have shocked those who knew her only as the dignified and self-possessed Miss Eva Sommerton. Then she looked at her libelled sketches, and somehow they did not appear to be quite so faultless as she had supposed them to be.
Miss Sommerton, I waited and waited in Boston for you to return. I want to be a dependence. I admit the conquest. I wish to swear fealty to Miss Eva Sommerton of Boston, and now I ask my third question, will you accept the allegiance?" Miss Sommerton was a little slow in replying, and before she had spoken Mrs. Lennox bustled in, and said "Oh, Mr. Trenton, I have been looking everywhere for you.
Meantime, Phyllis had hurried to the carriage and been driven home: she dared not stay and let the crowd gaze at her after that bold confession of Tom's. The cheering for the nominee was yet at its flood when Bannister leaped at Colonel Sommerton and grasped his hand. The old gentleman was flushed and smiling, as became a politician so wonderfully favored.
Miss Sommerton meditated bitterly on the disappointments and annoyances of the day. Once fairly away, conscience began to trouble her, and she remembered that the gentleman so unceremoniously left in the woods without any possibility of getting away was a man whom Mr. Mason, her friend, evidently desired very much to please.
Speeches were expected, and it had been arranged that Tom Bannister should first appear, Colonel Sommerton would follow, and then the ballot would be taken. This order of business showed the fine tactics of the Colonel, who well understood how much advantage lay in the vivid impression of a closing speech.
Is your first name J , the same as his?" "Yes." "Not a relative, is he?" "Well, no. I don't think I can call him a relative. I don't know that I can even go so far as to call him my friend, but he is an acquaintance." "Oh, tell me about him," cried Miss Sommerton, enthusiastically. "He is one of the Englishmen I have longed very much to meet." "Then you forgave him his rude letter?"
I think probably you are rich, and have had a good deal of your own way in this world. In fact, I take it for granted that you have never met any one who frankly told you your faults. Even if such good fortune had been yours, I doubt if you would have profited by it. A snub would have been the reward of the courageous person who told Miss Sommerton her failings."
"I must confess," said Miss Sommerton, "that I have very little interest in the subject of tobacco. But I cannot see why we should not have good tobacco in this country. We grow it here." "That's so, when you come to think of it," answered the artist.
We shall land you, and then the canoe will go up lighter." "I wish to go with you. Do what I tell you, and I will pay you." The stolid boatman gave the command; the man at the bow paddled one way, while the man at the stern paddled another, and the canoe swung round upstream again. The sun had gone down when Miss Sommerton put her foot once more on the landing.
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