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"O well, I asked pop yesterday what he thought of this Widewood scheme anyhow, and he said, 'There's money in it for some men. 'Well, then, why can't you be one of them, I asked him, and said he, 'It's not the kind of money I want, Fan." "O pshaw, Fannie, men are always saying that about one another." "Yes," murmured Fannie.
Down-stairs he paused an instant in passing his mother's portrait. "No, dear," he said, "we'll mix nothing else with our one good dream Widewood filled with happy homes and this one, with just you and me in it, the happiest of them all!" On the gate Daphne Jane still prattled, but after half a dozen false starts Johanna, for gentle shame's sake, had felt obliged to go.
Ef you wants to make a rich country, you ain't got to make it a white man's country, naw a black man's country, naw yit mix the races an' make it n yaller man's country, much less a yaller woman's; no, seh! But the whole effulgence is jess this: you got to make it a po' man's country! Now, you accentuate yo' reflections on that, seh! Seh?" "I say that's exactly what Widewood is."
"John," said Ravenel as they took the first puff, "there's one thing you can do for me if you will: I want you to stand up with me at my wedding." March stiffened and clenched his chair. "Jeff-Jack, you oughtn't to've asked me that, sir! And least of all in connection with this Widewood business, in which I'm so indebted to you! It's not fair, sir!"
Barbara gave a start of pain and murmured, "I do." Her heart burned with the knowledge that he was waiting for her uplifted glance. He began again. "The true value of Rosemont never came out of Widewood. It's the coined wealth of your mother's character and yours!"
For scattered through those lovely forests were scores, hundreds, of peasants from across seas, to every separate one of whom the scowling patient in this room, with fierce tears perpetually in his throat, believed he owed explanation and restitution. Garnet! owned half of Widewood!
"You've got the key of all our fates in your pocket, John you and your mother now, and you when you come into full charge of the estate next year. That's why Jeff-Jack's always been so willing to help me to help you on. But never mind that, only beware of new friends. When they come fawning on you with offers to help you develop the resources of Widewood, you tell 'em "
The river's head of navigation was, and still is, at Suez. One of the most influential, and yet meekest among the "citizens" men not in the army whose habit it was to visit Suez by way of the Sandstone County road, was Judge Powhatan March, of Widewood. In years he was about fifty.
"That we ever got rid of." On a day near the middle of the following month there began almost at dawn to be a great stir in and about Suez. The sun came up over Widewood with a shout, hallooing to Rosemont a promise for all Dixie of the most ripening hours, thus far, of the year, and woods, fields, orchards, streams, answered with a morning incense.
Daphne Jane, at Widewood, swinging on the garden-gate and cackling airily to a parting visitor, slipped to the ground as Widewood's master suddenly appeared, although just then the first light-hearted smile of that day broke upon his face.
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