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One day Carrie's bell rang and the servant, who was in the kitchen, pressed the button which caused the front door of the general entrance on the ground floor to be electrically unlatched. When Carrie waited at her own door on the third floor to see who it might be coming up to call on her, Mrs. Vance appeared. "I hope you'll excuse me," she said.
"She's graceful, too," said Beaton. "I've tried her in color; but I didn't make it out." "I've wondered sometimes," said Miss Vance, "whether that elusive quality you find in some people you try to paint doesn't characterize them all through. Miss Dryfoos might be ever so much finer and better than we would find out in the society way that seems the only way."
That Mabel might not see she had been weeping, she walked to the piano, covertly drying her eyes. "What," she asked dully, "does she want with me?" "About tonight," answered Mabel. She exclaimed fiercely, "I told them there'd be trouble!" With Vance upon her heels, Helen Coates came in quickly from the hall. Her face was flushed, her eyes lit with indignation and excitement.
And after somewhat less of argument and somewhat more of siege and shooting, a compromise was reached whereby the company bought annually at an exorbitant price all of Duke, Satterlee, and Vance Morgan's hay, and as the Morgans had small rivers of water in the mountains, and never, except when crowded, drank water, a modus vivendi was arranged between the claimants.
"Are you sure your hands are held?" demanded Vance reprovingly. "Yes," panted Rainey, "both of them. But something put its hand on my forehead. It was cold." In an excited whisper, a voice in the circle cried, "Look, look!" and before the eyes of all, a star rose in the darkness.
"SO be it, but you go first!" Ike was taken all aback, but did not lose his head. He raised his hands toward his lips intending to sound a whistle, but he was restrained by Vance, who said: "Move or make the least signal and you are a goner." "Aha! the charge is true," said Denman in a low tone. "You inveigled me on board this craft. You are in collusion with a man who wishes to get rid of me.
She had constantly had her attention called by the latter to novelties in everything which pertains to a woman's apparel. "Are you going to get such and such a hat?" or, "Have you seen the new gloves with the oval pearl buttons?" were but sample phrases out of a large selection. "The next time you get a pair of shoes, dearie," said Mrs. Vance, "get button, with thick soles and patent-leather tips.
It was here that Governor Zeb Vance, of North Carolina, visited us, and was a greater favorite with the soldiers than any man in civil life. It was here, too, our old disabled commander, General James Connor, came to bid us an affectionate farewell. General Kennedy formed the brigade into a hollow square to receive our old General.
And again, to the intense joy of Vance, it was Terry who brought the subject back, and this time the subject of all subjects which Elizabeth dreaded, and which Vance longed for. "Tell us how you came to branch out, Sheriff Minter?"
She had noticed the same thing in Miss Vance when she came to call that day; and when the young man owned that he came rather a good deal to Mrs. Horn's house, she asked him, Well, what sort of a girl was Miss Vance, anyway, and where did he suppose she had met her brother?
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