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I'd like to see her." "Yes; tell her we're here," chorused the others. Mrs. Terriberry's moment had come. She drew herself up in a pose of hauteur which a stout person can only achieve with practice. "Miss Tisdale," she replied with glib gusto, "is engaged at present and begs to be excused.
Terriberry's voice rang with cordial hospitality. The girl looked at him with embarrassing steadiness. The thirty thousand sheep were doing their work well. "We are going to the camp to-day," she answered and turned upstairs. When her few belongings were folded in a canvas "telescope" she looked about her with the panic-stricken feeling of one about to take a desperate, final plunge.
Her shapely head was erect and her eyes bright with the pain of hurt pride when she knocked upon Mrs. Terriberry's door. That lady thrust a floured face through the crack. "You needn't get anyone to take my place to-night," she said bravely, "I'm not invited." "What!" In the white expanse Mrs. Terriberry's mouth looked like a crack in a glacier. Essie Tisdale shook her head. "Come in." Mrs.
Percy Parrott's slender frame and reddened Mrs. Hank Terriberry's nose seemed to spring from overwhelming grief at the loss of a good friend and neighbor. Mrs. Jackson's rose-geranium had blossomed just in the nick of time, and Mrs.
A Roumanian prince who had that day returned from a big game hunt in the mountains and who had been cordially urged by Symes to honor his wedding, adjusted his monocle and stood on a chair under a kerosene wall-lamp that he might the better inspect the fig "filling" of Mrs. Terriberry's layer cake which he seemed to regard with some suspicion. Mrs.
"If anything more happens" Mrs. Terriberry's voice rose shrill and positive "I shall die!" A lunge in his direction indicated that her demise might take place in Kincaid's arms, but a startled side-step saved him and she sank heavily upon the red plush sofa. Her teeth chattered with a touch of nervous chill and her skin looked mottled. "She choked her! choked her almost to death!
"He needs my money, but if more pressure is necessary," she sniggered at the recollection of Mr. Terriberry's sentimental leanings "I can spend an hour with him in the light of the 'meller moon." Again Dr. Harpe was right. Mr. Terriberry needed the money, also his fears took instant alarm at the thought of losing so popular and influential a guest, one, who, as he told Mrs.
She raised her chin arrogantly. She had never been thwarted and the person was not born who could defeat her ultimately in any ambition! Her mental elation gave her a feeling akin to omnipotence. A clicking sound in Mr. Terriberry's throat due to an ineffectual effort to moisten his lips brought the realization that her own throat and mouth were parched.
They got to come closter than that or that skirt won't meet on me by an inch and to think twenty-fours was loose on me onct! Wait a minute!" A startled look came in Mrs. Terriberry's bulging eyes. "I thought I felt somethin' give inside of me don't take much to cave a rib in sometimes." "More?" "Yep; these things have gotta meet if I have to hitch the 'bus team onto 'em."
Terriberry's shudders made the sofa creak. "And her active in church work, which they say her langwudge was awful!" But Essie Tisdale was listening to another step upon the stair and she trembled when she heard the steps hastening down the corridor.
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