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In upon this scene of yelling, cursing, and fighting Van rode unannounced. He saw the crowd increasing rapidly, as saloons, stores, hay-yard, bank, and places of lodging poured out a curious army, mostly men, with a few scattered women among them all surging eagerly forward. Algy, meantime, in a spasm of pain and activity, struggled to his feet from the dust and attempted to make his escape.
Florence declared this to be impossible; but, as the Buston marriage took place just at this moment, she could not have her way in everything. Joe drove up to the church with Algy Soames, it not having been thought discreet that he should enter the parsonage on that morning, though he had been there nearly every day through the winter. "I declare, here he is!" said Miss Thoroughbung, very loudly.
He was conversational too, and inclined to quote poetry this sort of susceptibleness often affects gentlemen after they have had an excellent dinner flavored with the finest Burgundy. Lord Algy was as mild, as tame, and as flabby as a sleeping jelly-fish, and in this inoffensive, almost tender mood of his, Marcia pounced upon him.
"But I have not," interrupt I, speaking for the first time, and with a snuffliness of tone engendered by much crying. "Have not? have not what?" "Have not a house-warming in prospect," reply I, with distinct malignity. A moment's silence. My bomb-shell has worked quite as much havoc as I expected. "But where has it gone to since this morning?" asks Algy, looking rather blank.
"Well, the thing I'd like to have explained is come over here to the window a minute, will you, Algy?" Mr. Spofford came, and gazed down upon a dispiriting area of rain-swept street and bedraggled wayfarers. "See that ten-story office building across the way?" pursued Average Jones.
One-Eye had something of the sort in his own mind, for as he forsook the sink, Mrs. Kukor leading him, he shook a rumpled head at her. "Barber's bigger'n a barn!" he observed grimly. "Pos-i-tivvle!" Cis laughed, tossing her head. "I don't care how big he is," she declared, "or how mad! Algy can take care of himself."
Two of these pensive wanderers were Marcia Van Clupp and Lord Algernon Masherville, and Lord Algy was in a curiously sentimental frame of mind, and weak withal, "comme une petite queue d'agneau afflige" He had taken a good deal of soda and brandy for his bilious headache, and, physically, he was much better, but mentally he was not quite his ordinary self.
Nay, I happen to know that she spoke very seriously to Trix, pointing out the wickedness of trifling with him; whereupon Trix, who maintained a bowing acquaintance with her conscience, avoided him for a whole afternoon and endangered all Algy Stanton's prudent resolutions by taking him out in the Canadian canoe. This demonstration in no way perturbed the curate.
I want to have a shot at a man of my own set, just to let Peggy Lovell see! I know what she thinks." "Just to let Mrs. Lovell see!" Edward echoed. "She has seen it lots of times, my dear Algy. Come; this looks lively. I was sure she would soon be sick of the water-gruel of peace." "I tell you she's got nothing to do with it, Ned. Don't be confoundedly unjust. She didn't tell me to go and seek him.
A doctor, immediately summoned by the horseman, had set the fractured member. Algy had then been put to bed in a tent that was pitched in the yard where the horses, mules, cows, pyramids of merchandise, and teamsters were thicker than flies on molasses. Gettysburg and Napoleon, quietly informed by Van of the latest turn of their fortune, were wholly unexcited by the news.
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