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"And then, how soon did you think of printing your things in a book?" "Oh, about as soon as they began to take with the public." "How could you tell that they were-taking?" "They were copied into other papers, and people talked about them." "And that was what made Mr. Stoller want you to be his secretary?" "I don't believe it was.
I'm on my way to the woods for my after-cure; but I thought I might as well stop and give the girls a chance; they got a week's vacation, anyway." Stoller glanced at them with a sort of troubled tenderness in his strong dull face. "Oh, yes. I understood they were at school here," said March, and he heard one of them saying, in a sweet, high pipe to his wife: "Ain't it just splendid?
He let me know just as I was going to turn him out for the night. It's one of those little uncandors of his that throw suspicion on his honesty in great things." "Oh! Then you've been telling him," she said, with a mental bound high above and far beyond the point. "Everything." "About Stoller, too?" "About Stoller and his daughters, and Mrs.
Stoller advanced upon him, wildly, and Burnamy took a step backward. "Look out!" shouted Burnamy. "You never asked me anything about it. You told me what you wanted done, and I did it. How could I believe you were such an ignoramus as not to know the a b c of the thing you were talking about?" He added, in cynical contempt, "But you needn't worry.
You're always saying that the low character of our politicians is the ruin of the country; and I'm sure," she added, with a prodigious leap over all the sequences, "that Mr. Stoller is acting nobly; and it's your duty to help him relieve Burnamy's mind." At the laugh he broke into she hastened to say, "Or if you won't, I hope you'll not object to my doing so, for I shall, anyway!"
Burnamy took up his mail to Stoller after the supper which they had eaten in a silence natural with two men who have been off on a picnic together. He did not rise from his writing-desk when Burnamy came in, and the young man did not sit down after putting his letters before him.
If I do, I shall run out by train, and take my chances with the crowd." Stoller insisted no further. He felt no offence at the refusal of his offer, or chose to show none. He said, with the same uncouth abruptness as before: "Heard anything of that fellow since he left Carlsbad?" "Burnamy?" "Mm." "No." "Know where he is?" "I don't in the least."
"I don't want to get back. Nothing would induce me. I'm going away on the first train." "Well, you're not!" shouted Stoller. "You've lied me into this " "Look out!" Burnamy turned white. "Didn't you lie me into it, if you let me fool myself, as you say?" Stoller pursued, and Burnamy felt himself weaken through his wrath. "Well, then, you got to lie me out of it.
March, and she wished to explain how they had been advised; but he said to Burnamy: "I sha'n't want you again till ten to-morrow morning. Don't let me interrupt you," he added patronizingly to Mrs. March. He put his hand up toward his hat, and sauntered away out of the door. Burnamy did not speak; and she only asked at last, to relieve the silence, "Is Mr. Stoller an American?"
"I can answer it very well," she boasted, but she could find nothing better to say than, "It's your duty to her to see her and let her know." "Doesn't she know already?" "She has a right to know it from you. I think you are morbid, Mr. Burnamy. You know very well I didn't like your doing that to Mr. Stoller. I didn't say so at the time, because you seemed to feel it enough yourself.
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