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For Vance Corliss was many times removed from the red earth, and, though he did not know it, there was a clamor within him for a return lest he perish. Not that he pigeon-holed Frona according to his inherited definitions. He refused to classify her at all. He did not dare. He preferred to pass judgment later, when he had gathered more data.
Jack says they'll be calling for volunteers tomorrow." "What a fuss to make over nothing," said Mary Vance disdainfully as Jem dashed off. She was sitting out with Miller Douglas on a lobster trap which was not only an unromantic but an uncomfortable seat. But Mary and Miller were both supremely happy on it.
"I should think so," said Miss Vance, with such lofty disapproval that Beaton felt himself included in it for having merely told what caused it. He could not help saying, in natural rebellion, "Well, the man of one idea is always a little ridiculous." "When his idea is right?" she demanded. "A right idea can't be ridiculous." "Oh, I only said the man that held it was.
The two entered a carriage, and half an hour later father and daughter were clasped in each other's arms. The father had a little surprise for Vance. He had removed certain little disguise appliances, and when father and daughter stood side by side, a most striking resemblance was apparent.
Pollyooly followed him quickly, somewhat surprised by his size. He bounced well into the studio with an air of splendid intrepidity, which would have been more splendid had he been three or four inches higher and thicker, and uttered a snort of disappointment at its emptiness. He turned on Pollyooly and snapped out: "Where's your guv'ner? Where's Hilary Vance?"
Then she remembered that Lisa was with him. She would nurse him. She called a cab, and, as she drove home, looked out at the crowd with a hard, smiling face. Henry Irving that night played "Shylock," and Mr. Perry secured a box for Miss Vance. Frances went with the others. Before the curtain rose there was a startled movement among them, a whisper, and then Clara turned to Mrs. Waldeaux.
At length, one afternoon, Diggory and Jack Vance on entering the shed found him sitting on the carpenter's bench, with his chin resting in his hand, and a most ferocious expression on his face. "Hullo! what's up?" Acton stared blankly at the new-comers until the question had been repeated; then he sat up and straightened his back with the air of one who has made a great resolve.
Jennie produced the money from her bosom, feeling, I am glad to say, very guilty. "Out o' those saddle-bag pockets out there," added she, breathlessly; "true's the world." "Why, Jennie Vance!" "One had a raisin in and a button, and nobody but me would have thought of looking. You wouldn't now would you? My father says I've got such sharp eyes!"
It's 'leven hundred an' twelve foot high, four thousand two hundred an' fifty-four foot long, an' It's here pore Vance catches Jenkins' eye glarin' on him hard an' remorseless 'an' twenty foot wide, says Vance, a heap hurried, dashin' the kyards outen the box. 'Five lose, jack win, concloodes Vance confoosedly, makin' a hasty change of subjects.
"Certainly," he said, speaking almost for the first time, "Fame confers a rank above that of gentlemen and of kings; and as soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler. Mrs. Haughton was right, and I respect her." "Quite right. If I lived to the age of Methuselah, I could not paint a head like Frank Vance."
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