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Down the cobblestones of the quiet street came the ring of a stepper's hoofs; they stopped before the house, and he caught the opening of a carriage door. Parting the curtains he looked out into the early dusk. A street-lamp faced him, and in its light he saw Julius Beaufort's compact English brougham, drawn by a big roan, and the banker descending from it, and helping out Madame Olenska.
But he was always 'way off Down Town ... at The Office. We didn't have any fun with him. Stepper's always home. I'm glad we married a newspaper one this time." "Stephen, that dreadful name.... What will people think?" Her new husband didn't in the least care. He and Honor had gravely considered on that first day what they should call each other.
She knew that he was sick with shame for the lad he had worshiped; he did not want to meet her gaze. She could understand that. It did not seem to her that she could ever meet any one's eyes again kind Mrs. King's, Carter's her dear Stepper's.
Isn't this weather the deuce?" "Beastly, but it doesn't really matter. We're certain to " she broke off and looked closely at him. "Jimsy, what's the matter?" "Oh ... nothing." "Yes, there is! Come on in the house. There's no one home. Stepper's driving Miss Bruce-Drummond and Muzzie's being marcelled." She did not speak again until they were in the living room. "Now, tell me."
It all came back to her like a scene on the screen the busy streets the feel of the wheel in her hands again Stepper's slow voice "But, if the worst should be true, if the boy really has gone to pieces, you won't marry him?" And her own words "No; if Jimsy should be like his father I wouldn't marry him, Stepper. There shouldn't be any more 'Wild Kings."
Some of those kids will be tagging after us, or Carter." "Not Carter. Stepper's reading to him. He won't let him come." "One peach of a scout, Stephen Lorimer is," said the boy, warmly. "Best scout in the world." "He's the best friend we've got in the world, Jimsy," she said gravely. "I know it. Your mother's pretty much peeved about it, Skipper." "Yes, she is, just now. Poor Muzzie!
Is he is he " she kept telling herself that she was Honor Carmody, the tomboy-girl who never cried or made scenes Jimsy's Skipper her dear Stepper's Top Step; she was not a silly creature in a novel; she would not scream and beg them to tell her tell her even if they stood there staring at her for hours longer.
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